There’ll be job opportunities, but will we have skills to fill them?
In this op-ed, AIMS Director of Research Don McIver argues that the government should pay greater attention to ensuring that all Nova Scotians are fully integrated into the workforce. As population aging generates sharp declines in the number of working-age persons over coming decades, skills mismatches will become increasingly apparent. McIver argues that: “Perhaps the least welcome outcome of the emerging aging predicament would be to introduce an aggressive immigration policy while simultaneously failing to ensure the active workforce inclusion of Nova Scotians with long and deep attachments to the province.”