Is There Evidence of an Information and Communication Technology Labour Shortage in the Canadian Labour Force Survey

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ID11969887
AutoresAlexander Thomson (McMaster University, autor correspondente), Michael R Veall (0009-0005-2800-1851, McMaster University), Arthur Sweetman (0000-0001-8726-7557, Department of Economics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Education Policy Research Initiative, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario; and IZA, Bonn, Germany)
Ano2018
Volume44
FascículoS1
PáginasS1-S12
Data de publicação2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanadian Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917
EditoraUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cpp.2017-070
OpenAlexW2899169262
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas7

It has been suggested that there is a persistent and continuing shortage of information and communication technology (ICT) workers in Canada. We examine this claim in the context of confidential microdata from the Canadian Labour Force Survey for 1987–2016. For ICT- related occupations, there are indications of increases in hours per employee, overtime, and junior hiring from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, but these tendencies do not persist beyond this period. There is some evidence that any tightness in the ICT labour market beyond the early 2000s may have been relieved by immigration rather than by wage increases, arguably dulling the incentives for Canadian residents of university and college age to train for and to pursue ICT careers

Business · Census · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic shortage · Economics · Immigration · Incentive · Information and Communications Technology · Labour economics · Market economy · Microdata (statistics · Overtime · Political science · Sociology · Wage · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law