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Immigrant Labour Supply in the Broader Automotive Sector and Supply Chain
Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector has historically presented employment opportunities for immigrants that provide family sustaining wages. While immigration is critical to the skill needs of many […]
The Canadian Skills Training and Employment Coalition (CSTEC), Prism Economics (Prism), and the Automotive Policy Research Centre (APRC) have partnered in a collaborative research effort to help industry, government, labour, educational, and nongovernmental stakeholders better understand the broader automotive sector labour market in Canada. This work is funded by Government of Canada’s Sectoral Initiatives Program.
In addition to producing occupational supply and demand forecasts, the FOCAL Initiative will also examine and report on various labour market trends in the sector to help facilitate discussions among stakeholders about how to address forecasted skills shortages and other labour market challenges.
April 10, 2024
Immigrant Labour Supply in the Broader Automotive Sector and Supply Chain
Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector has historically presented employment opportunities for immigrants that provide family sustaining wages. While immigration is critical to the skill needs of many […]
March 19, 2024
The Shift to EV Production in Quebec’s Automotive Manufacturing Sector
Assessing the economic and labour market impacts Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector, a key driver of the country’s manufacturing and economic growth, is undergoing a significant shift […]
March 8, 2024
The Shift to EV Production in Ontario’s Automotive Manufacturing Sector
Assessing the economic and labour market impacts Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector, a key driver of the country’s manufacturing and economic growth, is undergoing a significant shift […]
February 23, 2024
Diversity and employment in Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector
This report is a follow up to our 2019 Diversity report, and the 2020 paper on women’s participation in the automotive sector in the post-COVID era. […]
February 7, 2024
The Shift to EV Production in Canada’s Automotive Manufacturing Sector
Assessing the Economic and Labour Market Impacts Executive Summary: Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector, a key driver of the country’s manufacturing and economic growth, is undergoing a […]
December 10, 2021
Apprenticeships: Perceptions of Youth, and Government Support for Apprentices and Employers
Automotive production has faced challenges in attracting and retaining young workers in skilled trades jobs. This new FOCAL paper reports on a recent series of youth […]
November 25, 2021
Recruitment and Retention Issues: Input from Automotive Production Employers in Small and Large Population Centres in Ontario
This paper is based on ‘key informant’ interviews with human resources or operational managers of seven automotive production sector SMEs in rural/smaller population centres in Ontario […]
October 12, 2021
The Impact of EV Production on the Automotive Manufacturing Supply Chain: Sources, Methods and Findings
The shift to producing electric vehicles will mean will lead to changes in the automotive manufacturing workforce, its occupations, and in some of relevant skills in […]
August 14, 2021
COVID-19 & Canada’s Automotive Manufacturing Sector: A Year in Review
This new FOCAL paper provides an overview of some of the key recent impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the automotive production sector in Canada. In […]
May 27, 2021
Recruiting Immigrant Labour in the Automotive Production Sector
This paper takes a close look at the labour force of landed immigrants in the automotive production sector (parts + assembly), and immigrant labour force participation […]
December 22, 2020
Canada’s Automotive Technology Clusters: Labour Market Characteristics & Regional Specifications
In this series of reports, we observe the contributions of Canada’s six automotive technology clusters located in Vancouver, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), Kitchener […]
December 18, 2020
Montreal’s Regional Automotive Technology Cluster
Canada’s automotive technology clusters are key to the advancement of the broader automotive sector. These clusters contribute to manufacturing capability and support the development of new […]
December 18, 2020
Windsor’s Regional Automotive Technology Cluster
Canada’s automotive technology clusters are key to the advancement of the broader automotive sector. These clusters contribute to manufacturing capability and support the development of new […]
December 18, 2020
Ottawa’s Regional Automotive Technology Cluster
Canada’s automotive technology clusters are key to the advancement of the broader automotive sector. These clusters contribute to manufacturing capability and support the development of new […]
December 18, 2020
Vancouver’s Regional Automotive Technology Cluster
Canada’s automotive technology clusters are key to the advancement of the broader automotive sector. These clusters contribute to manufacturing capability and support the development of new […]
December 18, 2020
Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge Regional Automotive Technology Cluster
Canada’s automotive technology clusters are key to the advancement of the broader automotive sector. These clusters contribute to manufacturing capability and support the development of new […]
December 18, 2020
Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area’s Regional Automotive Technology Cluster
Canada’s automotive technology clusters are key to the advancement of the broader automotive sector. These clusters contribute to manufacturing capability and support the development of new […]
June 24, 2020
Youth Employment in Canada’s Automotive Manufacturing Industry
This paper is part of the FOCAL Initiative’s response to commentary we heard aboutyouth recruitment and retention from automotive sector employers during thisproject’s initial round of […]
June 19, 2020
Impact of Industry 4.0 Technologies on Key Occupations in Automotive Manufacturing
“Industry 4.0″ is one of the leading trends in manufacturing technologies. For the Canadian automotive manufacturing sector to maintain its competitiveness and share in the North […]
June 19, 2020
Women’s Participation in Canada’s Automotive Industry
This paper follows up on a fall 2019 Focal initiative paper entitled Women, Youth and Indigenous Peoples’ Employment in Canada’s Automotive Sector and takes a closer […]
June 17, 2020
An Examination of the Use of Intermediaries: Increased Skilled Trades in Automotive Manufacturing
Throughout last year, we talked to dozens of automotive manufacturers about their workforce challenges. Many conversations were punctuated by ongoing concerns around shortages related to skills […]
November 23, 2019
Production Mandates and Impact on Labour Market Forecasts
This report summarizes what industry stakeholders and researchers have indicated helps automotive manufacturers win production mandates and explains the context for the variable demand side of […]
October 23, 2019
Post-Secondary Education Report
Canada’s automotive industry plays an important role in the economy of the country. The industry has a complex supply chain and changes quickly. Understanding links between […]
October 21, 2019
Preliminary Insights: Labour Market Challenges in Canada’s Automotive Manufacturing Sector
This report summarizing our preliminary insights into labour market challenges faced by employers in Canada’s automotive sector is part of the Auto Labour Market Information (LMI) […]
October 19, 2019
Wage Report
This report on automotive sector wages compensation is based on publicly available data that includes important analysis and identifies some important trends. However, because the industry […]
October 15, 2019
Labour Mobility, Commuting Patterns, and Canada’s Automotive Industry
Manufacturing employers in Canada have recently faced tight labour markets. Automotive manufacturing employers, including those that assemble vehicles and those that manufacture parts and components, are […]
October 12, 2019
Defining the Broader Automotive Sector
The automotive industry supply chain is complex and dynamic. The industry includes not only assemblers, but also many parts suppliers including companies that might self-identify as […]
October 10, 2019
Women, Youth, and Indigenous Persons in Canada’s Automotive Industry
This report examines diversity and employment in Canada’s automotive industry. More specifically, it focuses on better understanding the employment characteristics of women, youth, and Indigenous persons […]