Ahead by a Decade: Employment in 2030 – Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship

Preparing Canadians for the future of work in a dynamic labour market is one of the biggest challenges facing policymakers, employers, educators, service providers, and unions. Our Forecast of Canadian Occupational Growth provides a new tool for understanding how Canada’s labour market could evolve over the next decade, shaped by potentially disruptive drivers ranging from technological change to resource scarcity and an aging population. This forecast offers an important complement to existing labour market information. It presents a possible picture of the future that differs from the Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), which largely relies on extrapolation from past trends. 

The forecast, including the data and modelling code used to build it, is available for download through BII+E’s GitHub. We encourage users to explore the data, and to use it to investigate further questions, generate new research, and inform existing labour market information (LMI) tools. 

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Our accompanying report, Ahead by a Decade, provides a future-focused analysis of how Canada’s labour market could evolve by 2030. It highlights actionable insights into the jobs that are likely to grow or decline in importance across Canada in the next decade, and the skills that could help workers to navigate these shifts. Ahead by a Decade also explores the implications of this forecast for specific occupations, skills, industries, geographies and people. It looks at how different workers may be impacted, and how policy could be designed to respond.

With this analysis, we aim to help policymakers, program designers, educators, and service providers identify and respond to potential areas of risk and opportunity to better prepare current and future workers and employers for the employment and skills landscape of 2030.

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