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Job creation remains weak, and employment continues to diverge from growth.
It would also maintain current consumptions levels and avoid tax increases, while redressing public-investment shortfalls in order to boost growth and expand employment options for today’s middle class and future generations.
The natural consequences are too little employment, too little investment in sophisticated education, too little innovation, and minimal increases in productivity.
Towards the end of the 1990's, the large EU countries encouraged employment of less qualified workers through temporary work contracts.
It is no coincidence that the only European countries with fast productivity growth in the second half of the 1990's were Ireland, Finland, and Sweden, where IT production accounts for a large share of aggregate output and employment.
This will require a substantial investment in education and workforce training, a focus of the most recent McKinsey report detailing the importance of skill development and connecting education to employment.
If wages fall further, employment will rise.
And further cuts in pensions will not address the true causes of the pension system’s troubles (low employment and vast undeclared labor).
For starters, Germany is close to full employment – in sharp contrast to the double-digit unemployment rates that prevail in much of the eurozone.
But the combination of full employment and low growth rates actually points to an underlying problem: very slow productivity growth.
Specialized online job-search sites are facilitating employment.
International observers often also target the need to reduce public employment.
Poor countries need to go through a similar change in order to become rich: reduce farm employment, become more urban, have fewer children, and keep those children that they have in school longer.
The policy of quotas for lower castes and for members of certain “scheduled” tribes affects educational institutions, government employment, and even private firms.
Japan’s achievement of full employment and high job growth over the last two decades is all the more noteworthy in view of near-permanent deflation during this period (most prices are still lower today than they were 15-20 years ago).
Over the last 50 years, the most striking forms of inequality, including discrimination against women in access to education, health, employment, political participation, and household resources, have been largely reversed.
Moreover, India’s new rural employment guarantee scheme, just two years old, is not only employing millions of the poorest through public financing, but also is bringing tens of millions of them into the formal banking system, building on India’s digital networks.
In the same 1993-2014 period, industrial employment as a share of total employment fell by 8% in the US, 8.5% in Japan, and 9.8% in Germany, but it barely moved in Mexico.
New Zealand’s Laborites privatized the postal system and many other public enterprises, and changed the country’s employment system from highly centralized collective bargaining to one that gave employers considerable discretion to hire and fire and to pay market-determined wages.
As the state’s share of non-agricultural employment fell – from 30% in the mid-1990s to 13% by 2007 – private-sector productivity rose at an average annual rate of 3.7% from 1998 to 2007.
Global unemployment has topped 212 million, according to the International Labor Organization, and another 42 million new jobs will need to be created each year if the world economy is to provide employment to the growing number of new entrants into the labor market.
Their view of the overall impact on employment levels in their industries was for the most part positive – provided that new workforce skills can be developed rapidly in their own sectors and in the labor market more broadly.
Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people’s abilities to earn a livelihood.
Regulatory support for entrepreneurship and small and medium-size enterprises remains one of the most underused means of unleashing creativity, enhancing growth, and generating employment.
This was certainly true in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, when right-wing ideology dominated, producing a one-size-fits-all prescription entailing privatization, liberalization, and macroeconomic stability (meaning price stability), with little attention to employment, equity, or the environment.
As I wrote in my chapter, “Some problematic areas identified in the Kerner Report have gotten better (participation in politics and government by black Americans – symbolized by the election of a black president), some have stayed the same (education and employment disparities), and some have gotten worse (wealth and income inequality).”
Even if refugee children eventually manage to get somewhere safe, their prospects are bleak, because most will never have a chance to go to school – a reality that will severely undermine their ability to find gainful employment.
Long-term educational and employment needs have historically been undervalued in humanitarian planning.
Instead, the economists suggest focusing on reducing barriers to employment, particularly for women.
Third, and perhaps most worrisome, the domestic employment consequences of recent trade and technological trends have been disappointing.
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