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What We Do:

What are we trying to understand?

Three things are happening in most developed countries that have significant implications for Canadian and global economies:

1. workers are getting older;
2. the way work gets done in the new economy is changing and;
3. there has been substantial growth in information technology (IT) employment.

Our project is unique in trying to understand the relationships among all three of these trends. To do that we developed an international research consortium made up of 16 co-investigators and over two dozen partners from Canada, the United States, the European Union, and Australia.

Project Overview

What have we learned? Selected Highlights from Phase One

Benefits of our work

More information on the project (PDF document).

The five research themes (PDF document).