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According to data from Statistics Canada for the first quarter of 2025, the unemployment rate in Canada among those between the ages of 15 and 24 is the highest it has been since the mid-1990s. These 51³Ô¹ÏÍøexperts can provide insights:

Matissa Hollister, Assistant Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, can speak about the labour force and labour market, the changing nature of work, comparative labour and industrial policies, and employment instability and insecurity.

Matissa.hollister [at] mcgill.ca (English)

Srividya Iyer, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Canada Research Chair in Youth, Mental Health and Learning Health Systems, can discuss the impacts of youth unemployment, particularly as it affects mental health. She can also speak about how the changing nature of work and employment is having an impact on young people's hopes for the future; about interventions and policies that can help support youth who are unemployed; and about factors (for example, social determinants, mental health) that increase the likelihood an individual will face unemployment.

srividya.iyer [at] mcgill.ca  (English, French)

Fabian Lange, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Labour and Personnel Economics, Department of Economics, has expertise that includes labour economics, earnings inequality and health and population economics. 

Fabian.lange [at] mcgill.caÌý (·¡²Ô²µ±ô¾±²õ³ó)