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January 2021 Economic Update
Jan 8th, 2021
Health Impacts The world may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the global COVID-19 health and economic crisis. After unprecedentedly quick development timelines, a handful of promising...
Measuring the Unmeasurable
Nov 10th, 2020
Online labour is notoriously difficult to measure. It’s also not an obscure type of work that can be easily disregarded: globally, an estimated (and growing) 48 million people are registered on online...
Multi-State and Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
Oct 5th, 2020
What do you get when you cross small businesses, big businesses, academic institutions, and research bodies from 29 countries (EU and non-EU Member States), all with the common goal of securing Europe...
COVID-19, Employment, and Wages
Sep 24th, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, it has become well-understood that the economic consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns have been harsher for lower-wage workers. While higher-wage workers are more...
August Employment Update
Sep 8th, 2020
Port of Vancouver, Photo by Ryan McLaughlin Unadjusted employment in Canada grew by about 220,000 from July to August, or 1.2%, according to Statistics Canada. Employment tends to rise in summer due...
Alberta’s Digital Economy Employment
May 4th, 2020
Photo by Chris Henry on Unsplash One year ago, ICTC released the report A Digital Future for Alberta: An Analysis of Digital Occupations in Alberta’s High-Growth Sectors . This report analyzed and...