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The military embraces conscription because it assures the armed forces of high-quality recruits and a close link to civil society; politicians like it because it helps make the armed forces transparent; agencies of the welfare state appreciate it because, without conscription, there would be no conscientious objectors to be usefully (and cheaply) employed in all sorts of social tasks.
Roughly 300,000 more Americans are employed in education and health care than a year ago - an annual rate of employment growth of 1.7%.
A quarter of a million more Americans are employed in business and professional services than a year ago - a 1.6% annual rate of employment growth.
It started to occur to women that they could be employed and have a family – and that it could even be pretty nice.
For example, while one in eight Americans is black, one in three is employed in sanitation or other blue-collar jobs.
But only a tiny share of these economies’ labor is employed in productive enterprises, while informal, unproductive firms absorb the rest.
If I see a beautiful piece of jewelry or a bright new car in a shop, I am convinced that it should be mine, and that it can be more usefully employed in my possession than in someone else’s.
In Tunisia, former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s cronies received 21% of all private-sector profits in 2010, though their firms employed only 1% of Tunisia’s labor force.
The result was a dearth of jobs in the formal sector, which rarely employed more than 20% of the labor force.
Everyone would remain employed, and all would come a little closer to Keynes’s ideal.
The increased tax burden for all who are employed is analogous to the reduced hours in work-sharing.
Yet, worldwide, only about half of working-age women are employed, and women's labor-force participation rates have not changed much in two decades.
Women account for most unpaid work in the informal sector; and, even when they are formally employed, they earn significantly less than comparably educated men in similar jobs.
In China, the International Renewable Energy Agency reports that more than 1.7 million people are already employed in the renewable-energy sector.
Worldwide, an estimated 5.7 million people were employed directly or indirectly in the global renewable-energy industry in 2012 – a figure that could triple by 2030.
It even addresses social inclusion, with many of those employed coming from vulnerable groups, such as single mothers.
Half of Latin America’s population is still informally employed and performing low-productivity tasks.
That means that roughly 1.3 million more people will be employed in America in 2009, 1.9 million more in 2010, and 0.7 million people employed in 2011.
Fewer than one-fifth of workers in Peru are employed by the kind of private businesses that Marx had in mind.
Even within countries, measures of wellbeing are strongly related to the proportion of the labor force employed in capitalist production.
By contrast, the skilled-unskilled wage gap of employed persons only increased modestly in Germany, France, and most other Western European countries.
Obama rightly recognizes that it is an important tool of foreign policy, to be employed when it promises results that are more favorable than the alternatives.
Saleh has regularly employed the danger of Al Qaeda to obtain additional financial and security support from both the West and Saudi Arabia.
But I doubt whether anything tougher than strongly worded communiqués will ever be employed.
So, today, people stay near idle factories – kind of employed, but having nothing to do and earning virtually no money.
Autonomous forces, similar to those employed by CIDs and university campuses, would maintain internal order.
But I suspect that a greater danger lies elsewhere, with the practical men and women employed in the policymaking functions of central banks, regulatory agencies, governments, and financial institutions’ risk-management departments tending to gravitate to simplified versions of the dominant beliefs of economists who are, in fact, very much alive.
Labor reform leading to longer hours would not reduce the total income of the employed, but it would reduce production costs.
Tax incentives are employed to stimulate use, as are mandatory blending requirements.
Furthermore, labor markets around the world are providing fewer jobs and lower salaries, increasing the incidence of poverty among employed people, which has already trapped nearly one billion workers and their families.
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