🧑‍🏫 Join us THIS THURSDAY for our #CPCCGWebinar with Jan Einhoff @MPIDR and Vincent Ramos (University of #Southampton).

They will discuss findings that show how #welfare retrenchment may play a role in stalling the transition to #residential independence disproportionately among the most vulnerable #youngadults in the #labourmarket.

Register to join us online: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/980/CPC_CG_Webinar__Jan_Einhoff_Vincent_Ramos

#WelfareReform #UniversalCredit #Austerity #YoungAdults #Unemployment #Housing #Inequality #SocialPolicy

Degrees once measured competence. Now they often measure access.
Paper first. Skill second.
When credentials become toll booths
The labour market’s paperwork arms race
Scarcity disguised as standards
What if the gate is the story?
When legitimacy costs years and debt
The hidden economics of gatekeeping
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https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees

#LabourMarket
#HigherEducation
#Gatekeeping
#OccupationalLicensing
#FutureOfWork
#Competence
#LabourMobility
#Workforce
#Productivity
#EducationPolicy
#Meritocracy

The Credential Cartel: How degrees replaced competence — and scarcity replaced skill

Degrees, licences, and the hidden economics of gatekeeping, where modern work rewards credentials more than competence, and legitimacy costs years, debt, and permission

Curmudgeonly Canadian
1 Desjardins: After a string of #joblosses to begin the year, Canada’s #labourmarket showed some signs of stabilization in March. The #economy added back 14K #jobs, leaving the #unemploymentrate unchanged at 6.7%. 🧵 #cdnecon #LFS #jobsdata

Portugal is among the EU countries with most people working 50 hours per week.

A recent Randstad analysis indicates that only Greece, Cyprus and France have a higher percentage of employees habitually working 49 hours or more per week than in Portugal.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260405-portugal-is-among-the-eu-countries-with-most-people-working-50-hours-per-week?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Portugal #Employment #Jobs #LabourMarket #Greece #Cyprus #France

Portugal is among the EU countries with most people working 50 hours per week.

A recent Randstad analysis indicates that only Greece, Cyprus and France have a higher percentage of employees habitually working 49 hours or more per week than in Portugal.

Euronews
Recent research on #AI’s impact on the #labourmarket, including a study by Anthropic, focuses on theoretical capabilities and work-related uses of AI. However, these studies overlook the significant and harmful impact of AI on the #internet, such as the creation of AI-generated pornography and spam, which are prevalent and #economicallydamaging. https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet

Widely cited AI labor research ignores the most important thing AI is doing: Killing the human internet.

404 Media

📗 NEW CPC-CG Policy Briefing summarises research that shows how improving immigrant pupils’ competence in their host country #languageskills strengthens belonging, reduces bullying and benefits the wider #school environment: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/res/docs/PB90_Language_proficency_and_immigrant_childrens_integration1.pdf

Proficiency in the host country language shapes #educationalachievement, social integration and, ultimately, participation in the #labourmarket.

#Migration #Integration #LanguageLearning #Inclusion #Education #Wellbeing #HumanCapital #Schools

3 Desjardins: At this stage, it’s too early for #centralbankers to conclude any of those conditions are materializing. That’s particularly true in light of the recent deterioration in #labourmarket conditions & very muted #inflation readings. Beneath the surface, the labour market looks even weaker.
➡️ Following on from The Economist article, see also: #Labourmarket insecurity and #parental co-residence in the UK: heterogeneities by parental class and age' by Ann, with Vincent Ramos: https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf058
Canada's economy lost 84,000 jobs in February, unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Canada's economy lost 84,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate edged up to 6.7 per cent, Statistics Canada said on Friday, a setback for the labour market and one of the worst monthly job losses seen in years outside of the pandemic.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-labour-force-survey-february-2026-9.7127105?cmp=rss
Canada's economy lost 84,000 jobs in February, unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Canada's economy lost 84,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate edged up to 6.7 per cent, Statistics Canada said on Friday, a setback for the labour market and one of the worst monthly job losses seen in years outside of the pandemic.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-labour-force-survey-february-2026-9.7127105?cmp=rss