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Demographics – Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100
Modelling research published in The Lancet uses data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 to project global, regional and national population changes over the next century. Understanding potential patterns in future population levels is crucial for anticipating and planning for changing age structures, resource and health-care needs, and environmental and economic landscapes. Future … Continue reading
Immigration Temporaire au Québec – La réduction annoncée des admissions par Miller est sans précédent
Le 21 mars dernier, le gouvernement fédéral a annoncé vouloir réduire d’environ 500 000 le nombre de résidents non permanents au pays d’ici la fin de 2026. Cette annonce nous amène à revoir nos prévisions économiques pour le Canada et à réfléchir à la manière dont elles pourraient changer si ces nouvelles politiques étaient pleinement … Continue reading
The Evolution of Work and Tasks from 1950 to 2000 in US – A substantial fraction of total changes occurring within narrowly defined job titles
Using the text from job ads, we introduce a new dataset to describe the evolution of work from 1950 to 2000. We show that the transformation of the US labor market away from routine cognitive and manual tasks and toward nonroutine interactive and analytic tasks has been larger than prior research has found, with a … Continue reading
Remote Work in Germany – Workers in jobs conducive to remote work have begun living farther from their workplaces
A new IZA discussion paper by IAB researchers Sena Coskun, Wolfgang Dauth, Hermann Gartner, Michael Stops and Enzo Weber examines how the rise of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting career choices and where people live. The authors analyze large datasets on employment history in Germany alongside a new indicator for remote work … Continue reading
Living Wages – ILO has reached an agreement on the issue
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has reached an agreement on the issue of the living wage. The agreement, reached during a Meeting of Experts on wage policies , in February, was endorsed by the ILO’s Governing Body at their session on Wednesday 13 March. The experts agreed that decent wages are central to economic and … Continue reading
Public Industrial Investment on Local Development – Government-funded plant construction during WWII generated large lifelong benefits for children growing up nearby
This paper studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on individuals from those regions. Specifically, we examine publicly financed plants built in dispersed locations outside of major urban centers for security reasons during the United States’ industrial mobilization for World War II. Our results … Continue reading
Work Organization and High-Paying Jobs – Yes, work organization robustly predicts earnings
High-paying factory jobs in the 1940s were an engine of egalitarian economic growth for a generation. Are there alternate forms of work organization that deliver similar benefits for frontline workers? Work organization varies by type of complexity and degree of employer control. Technical and tacit knowledge tasks receive higher pay for signaling or developing human … Continue reading
Global Affordable Housing Shortages – Lack of reliable access to adequate housing is disrupting migrants’ integration opportunities
Lack of affordable housing worldwide is becoming a global crisis. An estimated 1.6 billion people—one-fifth of humanity—lack access to adequate housing and basic services, according to the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, and this number could rise to 3 billion by 2030. Over the last decade, housing prices have grown faster … Continue reading
US Long-Term Budget Outlook – Projected deficits are especially large given the forecast of low unemployment rates
Each year, the Congressional Budget Office publishes a report presenting its projections of what the federal budget and the economy would look like over the next 30 years if current laws generally remained unchanged. This report is the latest in that series. The federal budget deficit increases significantly in relation to gross domestic product over … Continue reading
Alternative Credentials in Higher Ed in US – Ninety-four percent of respondents’ institutions offer alternative credentials
The goal of this research is to better understand the landscape of alternative credentials, and the programmatic and business models that sustain them. The results of the study show that institutions of higher education have overwhelmingly embraced alternative credentials, with a range of offerings that include non-credit certificates, professional certificates, badges, bootcamps, and MOOCs. This … Continue reading
L’Emploi au Canada (Février 2024) – La plus longue période de diminutions consécutives depuis la période de six mois se terminant en avril 2009
L’emploi a augmenté de 41 000 en février. Le taux d’emploi a diminué de 0,1 point de pourcentage pour s’établir à 61,5 %, la croissance démographique (+0,3 %) ayant continué de surpasser la croissance de l’emploi (+0,2 %). Le taux d’emploi — la proportion de la population âgée de 15 ans et plus qui occupe un emploi — a reculé de 0,1 point de pourcentage pour s’établir à 61,5 % … Continue reading
Aging Societies – They rely on immigrant for health-care workers while the world is short on them
The world is short on health-care workers. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) predicted a global shortfall of 10 million health workers of all types by 2030. In 2020, the global health workforce numbered 65 million, according to the WHO’s National Health Workforce Accounts, yet these workers are no match for the demand. As … Continue reading
Qualifications Frameworks in 2022 – Global inventory of national and regional frameworks
This Global Inventory of National and Regional Qualifications Frameworks is the result of longstanding collaborative work between the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), the European Training Foundation (ETF), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL). Volume I continues the role set … Continue reading
K-12 Teachers in US – A significant decline in key elements of educators’ engagement
While K-12 teaching is, for many in the profession, inherently purposeful, some leaders in education mistakenly believe that the mission-rich nature of educators’ work alone is sufficient to keep K-12 teachers in the classroom. Shifts in America’s K-12 education landscape have led to a significant decline in key elements of educators’ engagement, including knowing what’s … Continue reading
Lifelong Learning – Making it a reality: a handbook by UNESCO
his handbook on lll is an attempt to capture the holistic, all-encom- passing vision of lll and recast it as practical guidance for education stakeholders. rather than providing an exhaustive account of lll in all its forms, the purpose of this publication is to articulate what lll is so that it may be understood, recognized, … Continue reading
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