Overcoming Skills Shortages in Canada

David Carey
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No 1143, OECD Economics Department Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta and Saskatchewan. While reforms have been implemented to strengthen adjustment so as to overcome these shortages, there is still room to go further by improving labour market information, increasing responsiveness of the education and training system to labour market demand, making the immigration system more reactive to current labour market conditions and reducing regulatory barriers to inter-provincial labour mobility. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Review of Canada (http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-canada.htm).

Keywords: apprenticeships; earnings premiums; employment insurance; high-skilled immigrants; inter-provincial mobility; skills shortages; vacancy rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J15 J24 J31 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07-15
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