LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION COUNCILCONSEIL DE L’INFORMATION SUR LE MARCHÉ DU TRAVAIL

TThe World of Work inCanada

Contact 2019Saskatoon, SK – 10 April 2019

Steven TobinExecutive Director

The World of Work inCanada

Opinion Research: Individual Canadians

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Opinion Research: Individual Canadians

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LMI Needs

After wages, skills are the most commonly identified LMI need

LMI Challenges

Data, when found, is not meeting the needs of Canadians

Dashboard

https://lmic-cimt.ca/lmi-interactive-dashboard/

The World of Work in Canada

• Overall employment growth is strong and unemployment rate low

• Growth in full-time jobs equal or better than overall job growth

• Non-standard employment levels are stable

Recent trends good ….

• Strong employment growth varies considerably by region and sector

• Rate of “over-qualification” is rising fast

• A lot of uncertainty in the future of work

… but come with caveats

Growth rate of employment

Unemployment rate at historic low

Little change in non-standard employment

Little change in non-standard employment

Little change in non-standard employment

Skills Old and New: Occupations and Qualifications I

4-digit NOC codes are associated with the “typical education” required for the job. The 2nd digit of the 2016 NOC codes indicate the following education levels:

LLevel A (0 or 1): University degree (bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate)

LLevel B (2 or 3): Some post-secondary education, college and apprenticeship

LLevel C (4 or 5): Completion of secondary school, and some occupation training

LLevel D (6 or 7): Below secondary school, and on-the-job training

NOC “Skill” Level

Skills Old and New: Occupations and Qualifications II

Future of Work Annotated Bibliography

Theme Canada-focused reports International reports

FoW DriversTechnological Change (Automation, AI, etc.) 59% 83%Demographic Change (e.g., aging) 52% 39%Climate Change 4% 22%

Type of AnalysisQuantitative analysis 78% 65%Skills-specific projections 11% 26%

Level of AnalysisNational-level forecasts 56%Provincial-level forecasts 22%Sub-provincial-level forecasts 7%

Total Number of Reports 27 23

A “living document” summarizes Canadian and International research reports

Version 2.1 released February

Future of Work

1. So much to the future than technology

2. Inter-section of drivers and labour market implications

3. Distribution, distribution, distribution

4. Role of skills: which ones and where?

Moving forward

1. Skills definitions

2. Mapped to occupations

3. Intersection of agents

4. Empowering people with insights and information