Future of work
A curated resource of recent research on trends shaping Canada's labour market.
The demand for jobs and skills contributing to the net-zero economy will be spread unevenly across sectors in Canada. The key question for policymakers is how to enable resilient, equitable job growth across a range of future policy alternatives ranging from low to high carbon-intensive pathways to net-zero emissions.
The authors build a foresight model to explore plausible resilient futures in the face of uncertainty about Canada’s needs for green jobs and skills. Their analysis assumes disproportionate impacts on energy-intensive sectors, persistent job growth and uneven job creation due to net-zero emissions policies.
The authors recommend developing a net-zero career roadmap, providing reskilling and upskilling programs to workers in transition to net-zero jobs, and developing mechanisms to support workers facing unemployment created by the transition to zero emissions.