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A century earlier, the French physiocrats Quesnay, Turgot, and Condorcet did not see how the share of the French labor force employed in agriculture could possibly fall below 50% without producing social ruin.
High-skilled migrants employed by Western oil companies, for example, were airlifted to safety.
In the United States, the government employed massive propaganda to promote public support for the “global war on terror” that it was about to wage.
An economic loss arises only if a firm produces some specialized good that can be sold only in Russia using labor and capital that are also specialized and cannot be employed to produce something else.
In line with his advice, the United States, Germany, and Japan employed judicious trade protection and industrial policies, while working actively to support nascent sectors – a strategy that enabled them to develop rapidly and even overtake Britain.
Chirac is alleged to have employed municipal civil servants when he was the mayor of Paris, 20 years ago, as aides in his electoral campaign.
In 1913, when he became US President, he inherited a federal government that employed many African Americans, some working alongside whites in mid-level management positions.
Some 82% of employed Manhattanites travel to work by public transit, bicycle, or on foot.
But peer review, a mechanism of multilateral surveillance employed by the OECD, can help to offset this tendency.
The Saudis also employed thousands of Pakistani soldiers during the 1991 Gulf War.
They remember the West’s prolonged support for the hated Shah, and for Iraq in its brutal war with Iran in the 1980s, even after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein employed chemical weapons.
For 50 years, tobacco companies employed a stable of scientists to assert (sometimes under oath) that they did not believe there was conclusive evidence that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer.
According to the MacArthur Foundation, 65% of today’s schoolchildren will eventually be employed in jobs that don’t exist yet.
This trend is now threatening traditionally stable economies; according to some estimates, by 2020 as many as 23 million workers in advanced economies will not have the right skills to be gainfully employed in meaningful careers.
According to my research, from 1990 to 2001, Austrian subsidiaries in Eastern Europe employed five times as many people with academic degrees, as a percentage of staff, as their parent firms did.
As a proportion of the workforce, German affiliates in Eastern Europe employed three times as many people with academic degrees as their parent firms did.
And German subsidiaries employed 11% more researchers than their parent companies.
They employed more German managers relative to local managers, which gave them more control over innovation.
By contrast, Austrian firms adapted their business to the region’s environment and employed more local managers than Austrians.
According to the OECD, 14% of the working-age population in Spain and Greece in recent years was employed but still in poverty.
But, like de Gaulle’s declaration and May’s slogan, Churchill’s statements employed the language of political ambiguity.
Chinese workers and managers employed by Western companies learned new techniques.
In the early twentieth century, a large share of even advanced economies’ populations was still employed in agriculture.
This is apparent at the conventional level of output per person employed.
According to a broader (and more appropriate) definition, which includes part-time employees seeking full-time jobs and marginally employed workers, the unemployment rate for the United States as a whole is 10.3%.
As a result, they tend to be employed mainly in very specialized contexts, such as efforts to explain the so-called “equity premium puzzle” (the empirical observation that over long periods, equities yield a higher return than bonds).
Even under the most optimistic growth scenarios, a decade from now about half of Africa’s workforce will still be employed in the informal sector, including micro and small enterprises.
More disturbing, five book publishers and editors in Hong Kong employed by the Mighty Current publishing house, which specializes in sensational stories about top Chinese leaders, have disappeared in recent months.
The global labor force is three billion, of which two-thirds are informally employed.
The direct participation of broad segments of Venezuelan society is very different from the traditional methods employed to overthrow governments in our region.
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