Labour and Skills Demand in Alberta
Insights Using Big Data Intelligence
This report examines Alberta's labour market trends, focusing on the impact of economic downturns, the COVID-19 crisis, and digital transformation. This study uses real-time labour market data, drawn from online job postings, to offer a granular perspective on demand dynamics across various sectors and occupations. The analysis in the report identifies emerging labour shortages in Alberta due to mega-trends such as digitalisation, AI adoption, automation, and population ageing and discusses key challenges such as youth unemployment and sector-specific labour shortages. The analysis in this report provides insights for policy makers, suggesting a need to support growing sectors, enhance digital skills development, address demand for health workers, and improve youth job access.
Assessing the impact of digitalisation in Alberta through the lens of big data
This chapter examines the impact of the digital transition on Alberta’s labour market, highlighting the challenges and opportunities this presents for the province. The analysis focuses on four different groups of digital occupations. For each group, the chapter examines the trends in online job postings (OJPs) and in skills demand by benchmarking some of these results to the whole Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. The chapter investigates the geographical distribution of the demand for digital occupations and assesses the rate at which digital skills demands are permeating Alberta’s workplaces, specifically focusing on the diffusion of programming skills and advanced data analysis skills. By addressing these points, the chapter provides a comprehensive understanding of the digital landscape in Alberta’s labour market.
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