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As a result, public employment, which usually rises during recoveries, has been a major contributor to high unemployment during the last three years.
Despite a modest uptick in the last three months, government employment is 569,000 below its June 2009 level – a 30-year low as a share of the adult civilian population.
Caste-based “reservations” (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, rather than eroded, India’s ancient system of discrimination.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
In their experiments, subjects, acting as employers, were asked to choose among types of employment contracts and then observe the outcomes when other subjects, acting as employees, responded.
But the employers also quickly learned that the best kind of employment contract is one that offers employee not just a fixed contract, but also the possibility of a bonus, a sort of gift for good performance that is outside of any contract provisions.
Thus, a sort of free gift exchange between employer and employee emerged from these experiments, not any rigid or formulaic employment contract.
One may infer that such informal arrangements survive in real-world employment relationships because they reinforce our heartfelt feelings of good will toward each other.
But this is not what sparked Holland’s dramatic employment gains.
The move to part-time employment in Holland was intended to increase female participation in the Dutch labor force.
There is an “iron law” of employment: If employers can’t fire workers, they won’t hire them.
Ironically, employment boomed in Holland, precisely because an increasing proportion of the work force - made up of part-time and temporary workers - can be fired if necessary.
If, as expected, GDP grows by about 2% next year, Spain will outperform the eurozone average and create an environment conducive to significant long-term employment gains.
Making matters worse, despite considerable gains in the last quarter of 2013, employment growth is far too weak to make a significant dent in joblessness.
Given this, the government must do more to boost employment in the short term, especially among young people, whose knowledge, effort, and entrepreneurial spirit is critical to Spain’s long-term economic success.
Europe needs structural reforms, but such reforms alone will not end the Continent's malaise, and some measures - those that weaken employment protection or the social safety net - may come at a high price, especially for people at the bottom.
Moreover, Chinese assistance packages often come with Chinese technology and laborers, implying limited employment opportunities and capacity-building for local people.
America’s Labor Market by the NumbersNEWPORT BEACH – Politicians and economists now join investors in a ritual that typically takes place on the first Friday of each month and has important consequences for global markets: anticipating, internalizing, and reacting to the monthly employment report released by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Think of the BLS’s employment report as a comprehensive monthly check-up for the American labor market.
Among its many interesting statistics, it tells you how many jobs are created and where; how earnings and hours worked are evolving; and the number, age, and education of those seeking employment.
The figure for monthly job creation, for example, is distorted by the growing importance of part-time employment, and it fails to convey the reality of stagnant earnings.
Then there are the indicators that link educational attainment and employment status.
President Barack Obama’s appointment of a “jobs czar” would also help to enhance the credibility, accountability, and coordination required to overcome today’s significant and rising employment challenges.
China’s official position is that, to avoid the negative impact of a stronger RMB on China’s exports and hence employment, appreciation must proceed in an autonomous, gradual, and controllable manner.
It also means that, following the examples of Singapore and Germany, clear pathways linking education to employment must be created.
It is anathema to the concept of a free society to segregate people solely on the basis of mental disability, to ignore their most-basic human rights, to bar them from access to education and employment, to deny them the freedom to choose where and how they live and with whom they can associate.
Or does the state take charge when the market fails to perform socially necessary functions – such as fighting wars or maintaining full employment?
Such reinvestment is the primary reason why technological change has benefited employment in the past.
Known as the “Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-15,” the program prioritized four areas: health, housing, education, and employment.
His promise to restore coal-mining jobs (which now number 51,000, less than 0.04% of the country’s nonfarm employment) overlooks the harsh conditions and health risks endemic in that industry, not to mention the technological advances that would continue to reduce employment in the industry even if coal production were revived.
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