This report evaluates factors contributing to healthcare labour shortages and investigates the inter-relationships between access to health services, the number of healthcare providers, compensation rates and migration patterns. Recommendations include a critical and strategic examination of fee schedules for physician services, with the goal of reducing the average cost per service but strategically increasing remuneration … Continue reading
2. Report summary Through this report,we endeavour to present comprehensive, consistent, and evidence based advice to the B.C. government in response to the tasks set out in the terms of reference. We do this in six parts, which: • introduce our task and provide a summary of the report (Part 1) • present a justice-based … Continue reading
The recent Fall Economic Statement made it clear that the government is committed to investing in skills development to help Canadians weather the post-pandemic recovery. But how can we know what training helps to get the in-demand jobs? In a new paper published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Tony Bonen (Labour Market … Continue reading
Key demographic groups are more vulnerable to job loss through automation than average, according to a C.D. Howe Institute report supported by the Diversity Institute at Ryerson University and the Future Skills Centre. In “The Next Wave: Automation and Canada’s Labour Market,” author Rosalie Wyonch assesses the likely impact of technological automation on Canada’s labour … Continue reading
Less than one-fifth of people who embark upon an apprenticeship program in Canada complete their training within the designated time period. Less than one-fifth Apprentices in higher-paying apprenticeship positions are more likely to complete their program within a given period of time than those in lower-paying positions, according to a new study. Skilled trades are … Continue reading
Interest in basic income has increased in recent years and the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the idea of a guaranteed minimum income for Canadians into the national spotlight. Canada already has a modest basic income program in place for people with children—the Canada Child Benefit—whose economic contributions CANCEA has previously examined. This report examines the … Continue reading
Cette étude, fondée sur l’Enquête nationale auprès des diplômés (END) de 2018, examine les résultats sur le marché du travail des diplômés de 2015, trois ans après la fin de leurs études. La plupart des diplômés du niveau postsecondaire, qui n’avaient pas poursuivi leurs études, avaient un emploi ou une entreprise trois ans après l’obtention … Continue reading
Why can’t we leverage our intellectual capital to create global firms that capture new markets like other countries do? Are we positioning ourselves to be successful in the fast-growing fields of artificial intelligence, cleantech or biotech? When it comes to talent and intellectual property, we look more and more like a farm team for American … Continue reading
Population growth in Canada’s large urban regions slowed compared with the same period a year earlier (+1.3% compared with +1.7%). However, Canada continues to be more urbanized as the population of census metropolitan areas rose to 27.3 million (accounting for 71.8% of the total population). Urban sprawl continues, with Toronto and Montréal both experiencing record-high … Continue reading
In a two-step immigration selection process, temporary foreign workers are first selected by employers for a temporary job, and some qualified temporary foreign workers then become economic immigrants. The details of this selection process vary among countries. For example, in the US, the temporary workers are typically sponsored by the employers in their bid to … Continue reading
We pool expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills across Canadian provinces and other participating countries to replicate the IALS-based analysis by Coulombe, Tremblay and Marchand (2004) as well as Coulombe and Tremblay (2006) based on more recent and more comprehensive data on the literacy skills of the adult population. Our results … Continue reading
This report looks at the evolution of minimum wage prevalence over the last 20 years, using annual estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). It examines changes in the profile of minimum wage employees, first through a series of gradual minimum wage increases observed from 1998 to 2017, followed by notable increases in 2018. It … Continue reading
To get a handle on Canada’s immigration policy, we first need to address two misconceptions surrounding Canadians’ understanding of how their country’s immigration system works. When the government announces that close to 340,000 immigrants will be admitted1 in a given year, many interpret this to mean 340,000 new arrivals that year. This is the first … Continue reading
En octobre, selon les données désaisonnalisées, 1,4 million de Canadiens ont reçu des prestations régulières d’assurance-emploi, plus du triple du nombre enregistré en février (446 000). Nombre record de personnes touchant des prestations régulières d’assurance-emploi en octobre Sur une base désaisonnalisée, 1,4 million de Canadiens ont reçu des prestations régulières d’assurance-emploi en octobre, plus du triple du … Continue reading
La formation d’apprenti constitue la principale voie permettant de devenir une personne de métier qualifiée au Canada. La présente étude utilise les données de 2008 à 2016 de la Plateforme longitudinale entre l’éducation et le marché du travail, afin d’examiner les facteurs ayant une influence sur les taux de certification des apprentis inscrits au Canada, … Continue reading