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The latest from the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training
Looking Forward: Five More Years of Research on Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour in New Brunswick
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: July 20, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Training , Labour Markets
NB-IRDT is not a government organization, but we are proud to support our provincial government by providing data-informed evidence that can help guide policy discussions and decisions. A new 5-year research contract with the NB Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour (PETL) is allowing us to keep doing just that. Since NB-IRDT’s official launch back in 2015, the Government of New Brunswick has supported our research endeavours, transferring de-identified data and...
RecruitNB Student Spotlight: Meet the Students Investigating Labour Gaps in New Brunswick’s Public Service
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: March 23, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Labour Markets , Student Spotlights , Pathways to Professions
What is RecruitNB? RecruitNB is a Future GNB research stream focused on identifying current and future labour gaps within one of New Brunswick’s largest employers: the Government of New Brunswick. Led by the Department of Finance and Treasury Board, the student team spent Summer 2022 collecting and analyzing data to help inform future employment policies and hiring practices. RecruitNB was tasked with surveying GNB departments to find out where there are job vacancies and possible...
Immigrant Retention in New Brunswick: 2022 Update
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: November 21, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Labour Markets , Economics
The population of New Brunswick is always changing. Children are born, students graduate, and families move around looking for new opportunities. In recent years, change has been even more rampant, with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting factors like immigration, population mobility, and remote work opportunities. Because New Brunswickers and the world around them keep changing, so does our research. As more recent data become available with the passing years, we revisit some projects and...
What Do New Brunswickers Do After They Leave High School?
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 3, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Media , Labour Markets , Education , Population Research , Youth
What Do New Brunswickers Do After They Leave High School? An education is said to be one of the most valuable assets a person can achieve, and pursuing post-secondary education is one of many ways young students can invest in their futures. However, we ask, are some young people more likely to transition to higher education than others? Are certain New Brunswickers more likely to enrol in post-secondary education after graduating from high school? And could differences in post-secondary...
Manufacturing Employment in New Brunswick
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: February 2, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Media , Labour Markets , Population Research , Economics
There is a narrative in New Brunswick that our province is falling further and further behind the rest of Canada in terms of economic and population growth, and “catching up” is a nearly impossible task to accomplish. Fortunately, this narrative is not entirely true. To promote progress and prosperity in the province, it is important to not only examine our weaknesses but also to better understand our strengths. The more we know about NB’s successes, the more likely we are...
Who Are New Brunswick’s Low-Skilled Workers?
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 1, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Labour Markets , Datasets , Economics
What does it mean to be low-skilled in New Brunswick? And which New Brunswickers are most likely to have low levels of skills in the workplace? NB-IRDT researchers explore these questions in a recent report, in which they construct profiles of low-skilled workers in the province. By focusing on groups with low levels of education, jobs with low skills requirements, and low income, they examine the proportion of low-skilled...
Pathways to Professions: Then and Now
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 4, 2021 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Labour Markets , Population Research
April showers bring May flowers, and the launch of Pathways to Professions – 2021 is our second annual experiential learning program providing UNB students with hands-on workplace experience and training in research methods and job readiness. From May 17 until August 13, we will be virtually hosting a new cohort of undergraduate and graduate students as they complete our curriculum of research and professionalism workshops, presentations, and networking opportunities, while working on...
Labour Force Survey Enhanced with COVID-19 Questions
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: April 2, 2021 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Labour Markets
Wondering how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent disease containment measures have affected the Canadian and New Brunswick labour market? So has Statistics Canada. In April 2020, a series of survey enhancements were included in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to fully measure the shock to the Canadian labour market resulting from COVID-19 and subsequent economic shutdowns. Over the past year, these enhancements were continued, and further supplemented with a range of variables...
Student Spotlight: Non-Government Employment in New Brunswick
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: March 25, 2021 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Labour Markets
Non-government employment has a direct impact on New Brunswick’s GDP through the manufacturing and service industries, as well as export and trade – making it extremely important to the province. While an increase in non-government employment would likely grow the economy, the numbers have been slowly decreasing since the 2008 economic recession. Is that likely to change in the coming years? This summer, Pathways to Professions student, Aya Benotmane, examined non-government...
Student Spotlight: Real GDP Growth in New Brunswick
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: February 12, 2021 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Labour Markets , Economics
The economic recession of 2008 severely impacted GDP growth in New Brunswick – not only at the time, but also for the years that followed. If the province’s GDP growth rates were on par with the Canadian average, NB would see higher tax revenue, more funding for public services, and greater interest from prospective businesses. So, how does our GDP growth measure up? This summer, Pathways to Professions student Thomas Campbell examined real GDP growth in NB. As part of the...
Student Spotlight: Immigrant Mobility in New Brunswick
NB-IRDT
Posted: November 27, 2020 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Pathways to Professions , Population Research , Labour Markets
In New Brunswick, immigration has been identified as a key solution to the province’s slow growing and aging population. However, for the programs and resources spent on attracting individuals to NB to be effective, it is important that the immigrants who arrive in the province stay and contribute to the local economy. A recent NB-IRDT report suggests 50% of Provincial Nominee Program immigrants remain in NB five years after arriving – but how do we know which immigrants are most...
Changes in NB over the last 20 years: Population, industry, and employment
NB-IRDT
Posted: November 26, 2020 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Labour Markets
Over the past 20 years, New Brunswick’s industries have shifted. More and more New Brunswickers are finding employment in the services-producing sector and fewer working in the goods-producing sector. Change happens, but do these changes affect all regions equally? In a recently released report, researchers at the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training examine how employment profiles across industries in New Brunswick have evolved – and how population growth,...
Self-Employment Trends in New Brunswick
NB-IRDT
Posted: October 7, 2020 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Labour Markets
A lot can change in 30 years. Different businesses open and close their doors, and advances in technology and shifts in the labour market change the way we work. At NB-IRDT, we examined self-employment trends in New Brunswick over the past 30 years (1982-2016) to see if/how self-employment has changed – and why. While the proportion of self-employed New Brunswickers has remained fairly consistent over the years, our researchers noted some interesting trends. For instance: The gender...
Immigrants as permanent residents
Mara Mallory
Posted: November 7, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Evidence-based Policy , Economics , Population Research , Labour Markets
It’s easy to track how many immigrants are accepted into a province as permanent residents through immigration programs. It is much harder to keep track of what happens after they arrive. Many New Brunswickers are counting on immigration to help alleviate the economic and social challenges we face as a result of NB’s demographic challenges. For New Brunswick to fully benefit from immigration, we need to dig deeper to understand the immigrant experience once they arrive in our...