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Falling employment in such industries was expected; the surprise was the absence of offsetting employment gains in other industries.
Economists do not fully understand why expanded trade has produced the negative consequences for wages and employment that it has.
It will have to move away from a strategy in which manufactures are the engine of growth toward the model of a more mature economy, in which employment is increasingly concentrated in the service sector.
The good news, as Roach observes, is that the service sector places less burden on natural resources and creates more employment than manufacturing.
As all this extra stimulus fuels an economy already nearing full employment, inflation seems bound to accelerate, with protectionist trade tariffs and a possible “border tax” raising prices even more for imported goods.
Moreover, Germans are not convinced that Keynesian policies, with their focus on boosting aggregate demand, are particularly effective in influencing long-term economic trends, despite their obvious short-term impact on output and employment.
After all, what the eurozone needs now is not to save its weaker economies from default or even to boost long-term growth; rather, it needs to recover lost output and employment, particularly in the southern countries – goals that neither fiscal austerity nor structural reforms can achieve on its own.
Some economists – citing indicators like investment ratios, industrial value-added, and employment – compare China to Japan in the early 1970’s.
And yet, in none of the economies attempting the unorthodox experiment of negative interest rates has there been a return to growth and full employment.
None predicted the crisis; and in very few of these economies has a semblance of full employment been restored.
But a large number of small banks in the aggregate are systemically significant – especially if one is concerned about restoring investment, employment, and growth.
Of course, even in the best of circumstances, monetary policy’s ability to restore a slumping economy to full employment may be limited.
They claim that it would improve the US trade balance, while boosting domestic production, investment, and employment.
The lessons of zero interest ratesStiglitzcriticizes the Fed for neglecting its legal mandate to promote “maximum employment” in favor of a narrow focus on inflation that is no longer relevant.
These external effects are particularly consequential in the financial sector, owing to the potential for large and relatively abrupt changes in capital flows, asset prices, interest rates, credit availability, and exchange rates, all of which have powerful effects on output growth and employment.
The electorate’s desire for change and fear of continuing slow growth, which pushed the Republicans to their victory in this week’s mid-term congressional election, will invariably prompt discussion about new policy options designed to raise growth, employment, and incomes.
Federal infrastructure spending and corporate-tax reform should top the list of policies capable of attracting bipartisan agreement, because they promise significant long-term productivity, income, and employment gains, while also supporting short-term growth.
A commitment to a multi-year federal infrastructure-spending program, for example, could increase demand, private investment, and employment, even though projects may not be immediately available.
Certainly not his effusive cheerleaders for the costly, ineffective February 2009 stimulus bill, a vast array of social engineering and pork that was ill suited to deal with the sharp contraction in private employment in the recession.
Uzbekistan, a former Soviet Republic, is a poor country without many employment opportunities.
What is lacking are effective government policies to attract high-quality FDI, particularly for exports, which could have a multiplier effect domestically, creating both direct and indirect employment.
Against this background, the only way to sustain the labor supply – aside from immigration – is to keep people in employment beyond the traditional retirement age.
Seniors need to be encouraged to seize these opportunities, even if it requires them to take a break from full-time employment, though on-the-job training is also a desirable option.
Meanwhile, because of the rapidly rising US budget deficit – a remarkable development in a country at full employment – an excess of spending power has spilled over into imports.
At the same time, free trade has been shown to create more jobs for women, reduce employment discrimination, and improve human-rights conditions.
In Hollande’s case, the rare glimpses of a comprehensive vision recall France’s successful social democracy of the 1960’s: a strong welfare state, together with abundant public investment to revive economic growth and boost employment.
Smaller firms are gradually recuperating; banks have rebuilt their capital cushions and reduced their dubious assets; the housing sector has stabilized; and a growing number of households are reestablishing healthier balance sheets, especially as employment gradually picks up.
And now that the employment challenge is coming into focus, the scramble for solutions has begun.
For example, Bill Gates has called for a tax on robots, which could slow the pace of automation, and efforts to fund other types of human-centered employment.
But industry only accounts for about 10% of Africa’s total employment, and the advent of automation has altered its relative cost advantage.
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