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Today, a new middle class – employed mostly in private firms – is on the rise.
“Men cannot be employed when the object of desire [i.e., money] is something which cannot be produced and the demand for which cannot readily be choked off.”
This paradigm shift has led to the erosion of the Western middle class and the rise of the precariat, a new socioeconomic class comprising not just those who cannot find a job, but also those who are informally, casually, or otherwise insecurely employed.
But even having a job is no guarantee of financial security: many employed people know that their jobs are vulnerable, and there has been inadequate progress in job quality, even in countries where aggregate economic indicators are improving.
Some have even employed staff using their own money.
The government subsidy has shifted employment to less productive employment in the wind industry, meaning that Danish GDP is approximately $270 million lower than it would be if the wind-sector workforce was employed elsewhere.
In families where the wife has been employed longer, men tend to do more and better child-care, with measurable payoffs in child outcomes.
Indeed, one in seven workers is employed by a foreign company, compared to one in ten in the UK and one in 20 in the United States.
Similarly, while India’s information technology-enabled services have gained an international reputation, the total number of people employed in this sector is less than 0.5% of India’s workforce.
Indeed, 92% of the labor force is employed in the informal sector.
An economy's productivity - that is, how much it produces per worker employed - depends on three factors: its endowment of capital, the quality of the country's workers and its ability to combine workers and capital efficiently to produce goods and services, what economists refer to as "total factor productivity."
Worse still, when American soldiers encountered resistance, they employed methods - invading homes and mistreating prisoners - that alienated and humiliated the population, generating resentment and rage.
In its ruling, which employed even tougher language than most expected, the tribunal cut the legal heart out of China’s claim that the sea is, in effect, a Chinese lake.
Around the world, the number of women in the workforce remains far below that of men; only about half of working-age women are employed.
During the bubble years, the situation was exactly the opposite: most of the workers released by a rapidly shrinking manufacturing sector could be employed easily in construction and social services, which require only low skills (likewise, real-estate services demand only rather general skills).
And, when she does marry and has children of her own, they will benefit from two educated, employed parents, which means twice as much literate conversation in the home, twice the contacts, and twice the encouragement to succeed.
Such arguments are still heard – but, increasingly, only from those employed by global megabanks, including their lawyers, consultants, and docile economists.
According to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, 54.7% of women were employed on a non-regular basis in 2011.
In his The Age of Extremes, Eric Hobsbawm argued that the greatest change in the West in the 20 th century was the vast reduction in the number of people employed as farmers.
Roughly 50,000 North Korean workers are employed in 123 factories that produce about $450 million worth of goods (mainly textiles, shoes, and household goods).
When manufacturing takes off, it can generate millions of jobs for unskilled workers, often women, who previously were employed in traditional agriculture or petty services.
Ensuring a financial system’s stability is a multifaceted endeavor – complex enough to keep many diligent people fully employed.
And Russia employed military force in particularly brutal ways in Syria to prop up Bashar al-Assad’s appalling regime.
Although a system of temporary permits allows foreign workers to be employed in Japan for up to three years, the country will not seek to ameliorate adverse demographic trends by opening itself to permanent immigration.
For example, the roughly 180 enterprises in the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, which controls all state-owned manufacturing companies, never employed much more than 100,000 workers in a nation of roughly 27 million people.
Companies once employed high-paid drivers and owned fleets of cars.
Then there is military globalization, consisting of networks of interdependence in which force, or the threat of force, is employed.
Alas, almost none of Burma’s gas revenues actually feed into its budget, owing to a rather ingenious device employed by the Burmese junta.
In this case, we should have equal regard for workers in the domestic economy and those employed in export industries.
Unable to compare outcomes directly, researchers have employed a variety of strategies to identify the impact of inflation targeting, and have typically found it to be substantial (though the effect becomes small or even zero when countries’ starting points are taken into account).
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