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So a stimulus will boost both output and employment.
This leads to a policy dilemma: rising unemployment rates are forcing politicians in the US and other countries to consider additional fiscal stimulus programs to boost sagging demand and falling employment.
The rise of new economic powers with lower costs made employment loss in old industries like textiles, iron and steel, and shipbuilding inevitable.
It is the private sector – where investment and entrepreneurial activity are needed to generate growth and employment – that has taken a beating.
Closing America’s Growth DeficitMILAN – As the American economy continues to sputter three years after the global financial crisis erupted, one thing has become clear: the United States cannot generate higher rates of growth in GDP and employment without a change in the mix of the economy’s domestic and export-oriented components.
With more than ample domestic demand, considerably boosted by rapid expansion in government and health care, the US economy sustained growth and employment in the face of large increases in the labor force (27 million new workers since 1990), notwithstanding the substantial headwinds created by new labor-saving information technology.
A large shortfall in domestic demand stymies growth and employment in the non-tradable sector, where it is the only demand that is relevant.
That is helpful, but the tradable sector, as it is currently configured, is not an employment engine.
From the standpoint of balancing aggregate demand and potential aggregate supply, the central bank should start by simply issuing a straightforward statement that, five years after the crisis began, a 0-2% target for annual inflation clearly runs unwarranted downside employment risks, and a 2-4% target is called for.
People simply don’t know whether their governments are going to start making progress in combating deflationary pressure, countering rising inequality, addressing social and political fragmentation, and restoring economic growth and employment.
But igniting and sustaining rapid growth requires something more: production-oriented policies that stimulate ongoing structural change and foster employment in new economic activities.
The employment consequences in the advanced countries would be problematic, especially given an existing shortage of high-paying jobs.
Youth unemployment is a particularly serious concern, even in countries with otherwise positive employment statistics; in countries with worse labor-market conditions, it represents a potential source of social and political instability.
In Spain and Cyprus, more than 90% of people in temporary positions cannot find permanent employment.
Labor-market conditions for immigrants are also a troublesome issue in Scandinavian countries, which otherwise perform well in enabling access to employment.
Moreover, though Sweden has one of the EU’s highest employment rates, it has failed to tackle its longstanding problem of youth unemployment, which currently stands at 23%.
The EU has said that young people should not be out of employment or education for more than four months; but no progress has been made toward making this a reality.
While growth is not an end in itself, it enables the achievement of a broad set of societal goals, including the creation of economic and employment opportunities for millions of vulnerable and poor people and the provision of social goods like education, health care, and pensions.
Another significant growth opportunity lies in boosting the employment and productivity of women.
Marianne Thyssen, the EU’s employment and labor commissioner, wants work on implementing the report to begin immediately.
Currently, micro, small, and medium-size enterprises account for some 60% of the developing world’s employment.
They know full well that their popularity can be sustained only if they are able to deliver growth, employment, and higher living standards.
My view is that employment, even in low-paid or part-time jobs, is better than unemployment.
One idea is that environmental technology might feed a virtuous cycle of innovation and employment.
Although the European Semester created a broad framework for coordination, it has failed to effectively improve competitiveness, growth, or employment across all EU countries.
As it is, India’s burgeoning youth population is struggling to find employment opportunities, making them easy targets for troublemakers.
All told, we found little evidence to support the claim that accepting a reasonable number of refugees and migrants from developing countries deprives native-born workers of employment.
The growing share of immigrants arriving from developing countries includes many less-educated workers, particularly among women, and that can reduce incomes and the overall employment rate for immigrants.
More broadly, many African countries need to find ways to create more employment – and fast.
This applies particularly to the Fed, which in the autumn of 2010 launched a second round of quantitative easing to stimulate economic growth and employment in the short run, but also to the Bank of England, which is criticized for being too lax.
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