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Choosing a short-term boost to economic growth and employment, rather than enforcing price stability, wrecked the world economy in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Reforming Employment ProtectionThere may be no labor market institution more controversial than employment protection regulation--the complex set of laws and procedures that govern how firms hire and fire workers.
Firms are typically reluctant to keep workers on when their temporary contracts end, as this would imply giving them high employment protection.
Ignore political feasibility for the moment, and ask what "good employment protection" should look like.
How does this answer compare to the way employment protection is currently designed?
So employment protection reform should involve a shift from a payroll tax to a layoff tax, accompanied by a reduction in the role of judges.
Higher layoff taxes, which force firms to think twice before laying off, would be welcomed by workers, while lighter and more predictable regulation of employment relations would surely be welcomed by firms.
If Germany still had – or had reverted to – the Deutschmark, employment and growth would have been hampered by a much stronger currency, on a trade-weighted basis, in the wake of the global economic crisis.
The US economy was in free-fall: financial markets had seized up, GDP was shrinking, and employment was plummeting, with some 800,000 jobs being lost each month.
Yet, almost immediately after the stimulus program was implemented, the output decline and employment losses slowed sharply.
The EU’s role in fostering productivity gains, economic growth, and employment should increase, with as much as a quarter of spending from the EU budget devoted to human capital and research.
Similar campaigns of naming and shaming have affected the investment and employment patterns of Mattel, Nike, and a host of other companies.
In their recent book The Unexplored Potential of Trade in Services in Africa, Nora Dihel and Arti Grover Goswani of the World Bank marshal data to show that services have the potential to provide much-needed employment and incomes for ordinary people across the continent.
Of course, slowing productivity growth is not good for longer-term economic performance, and it may be among the forces holding back the United States as it approaches “full” employment.
And, as Iraq observer Joel Wing has pointed out, public-sector employment doubled from 2005 to 2010, and now accounts for roughly 60% of the full-time labor force.
Surplus rural folk could find land to till in the New World's vast frontiers or industrial employment in its growing cities.
But, while GDP growth seems to be returning slowly to potential, the slow pace of recovery in employment and the residual secular shifts in income distribution remain causes of concern.
For starters, Chinese infrastructure investment has led to enormous gains in construction-related industries and employment, while boosting local GDP considerably.
In the meantime, employment at Amazon grew by 47% over the past year, to 341,000 people.
But with Amazon employment concentrated in California, Texas, and Washington, the geography of those jobs is very different from that of those it is replacing.
In frontline states, money is needed to provide refugees with formal employment opportunities, health care, and education.
Labor unions should negotiate with management about providing appropriate risk management to their employees in financial forms: the right kinds of insurance, options, and other investments to protect them realistically without guaranteeing their employment and without jeopardizing the productivity of the firm.
There is a “common-sense consensus” among borrowers – in China, as well as in highly indebted advanced economies – that raising interest rates would undermine GDP growth, employment, and asset prices.
Indeed, its three-year plan for economic innovation, announced in February, aims to raise the female employment rate to 62% by 2017, through the provision of affordable, high-quality childcare facilities and expanded paid parental leave, among other measures.
But, given that South Korea’s workforce already includes a substantial share of non-regular workers, increasing temporary employment may not contribute to economic growth.
As it stands, while the services sector accounts for more than 70% of employment in South Korea, its productivity-growth rate remains much lower than that of the manufacturing sector.
Most of the 54 million Nigerian girls and women who live and work in rural areas are forced into insecure employment in the informal economy.
Though law-enforcement, anti-trafficking, and child-protection agencies have long known about these abusive practices, solutions – such as employment schemes, legal immigration status, and improved health-care access – remain absent.
Trade liberalization, to maintain employment and promote growth, requires an offsetting real depreciation of the currency.
By helping French businesses recover lost margins, we can empower them to invest and create employment.
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