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A cross-country analysis estimates that university education is good for all three elements of economic performance: the employment rate (relative to the working-age population), the unemployment rate (relative to labor force), and labor productivity too.
A high level of job protection is bad for productivity but does not have a clear effect on either employment rate or unemployment rate.
In fact, among the 12 large OECD nations, a higher degree of corporatism as commonly measured is loosely associated with lower employment and lower productivity.
Here, much can be done by improving existing government programs: expanding market-relevant training, increasing opportunities for married women to join or rejoin the labor force, reducing the penalties in Social Security rules for continued employment by older workers, and changing tax rules in ways that will increase productivity and wages.
Moreover, there have been proposals to eliminate regional presidents from the FOMC, largely because they tend to be policy hawks – committed to keeping inflation low – while governors in Washington often prefer to focus policy on economic growth and employment, even if it places price stability at risk.
No union can still pretend that it has captive employers who can and will pass wage increases on into prices without reckoning the consequences for profitability and employment.
The other half is returning those who can do so to gainful employment.
One group – the “mercantilists” – argue that it is up to the state to maximize gold holdings and protect domestic manufacturing employment, by imposing tariffs, restricting the use of gold for imports, and forcing China to buy the same amount of goods from Venice that Venice buys from China.
During the three-decade-long Keynesian era, governments in the capitalist world managed and regulated their economies to maintain full employment and moderate business fluctuations.
The economic guru of that era, Milton Friedman, claimed that the deliberate pursuit of full employment was bound to fuel inflation.
The “new classical economics,” as it became known, taught that, in the absence of egregious government interference, economies would gravitate naturally to full employment, greater innovation, and higher growth rates.
Traditional growth theories focus on systematic forces – for example, capital accumulation, employment, and technical change – that, by definition, operate all the time, although with varying degrees of intensity.
A third point, intended for all but those who still believe in a free lunch, is that the employment and growth implications of a country’s commitments in the area of climate-change policy need to be carefully analyzed.
Although Germany’s net investment as a share of GNP remains one of the lowest in the developed world, the additional investment implies more jobs in the construction and machine tool industries, followed by rising employment wherever the investment is placed.
Despite the boom, and despite various programs that stimulated part-time employment, unemployment in absolute terms was about 4.5 million in 2006 and will be 4.1 million in 2007, compared to the last low point of 3.9 million in 2000.
And the US would not even be protected from manufacturing employment losses; the jobs would just go to Vietnam or Bangladesh, where labor costs are even lower than in China nowadays.
Europe has experienced significant immigration from countries such as Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan; but many of the newcomers have little education, and finding them employment has proved difficult.
growth, near-full employment, and a large current-account surplus.
On the contrary, most forecasters expect 2005 to be weaker than 2004, with growth insufficient to eliminate the "job deficit" - the gap between the number of jobs needed during the past four years to provide employment for new labor-market entrants and the actual number of jobs created.
Some analysts have estimated that, with many fewer employees needed to produce the current volume of goods and services, a large share of current employment could be made redundant.
And those who lose their jobs to the new technology will soon find other employment.
And yet, despite the ups and downs of the business cycle, the US economy continues to return to full employment.
Robots and automated machines have replaced production workers in manufacturing for many years, driving employment in the sector from 13 million in 1950 to only nine million now, even as the real value of manufacturing output rose by 75%.
These trends will fuel higher demand for workers in the service sector, which now accounts for 81% of employment in the US.
Employee ownership improves incentives for employee productivity, and reduces incentives for a firm to exploit its workers by, for example, imposing poor wages or working conditions on employees who, though highly productive, find that for personal or professional reasons their opportunities for alternative employment have decreased over time.
Wooing China’s PrincelingsCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s “princelings” – the offspring of senior Chinese officials who benefit from lavish privileges in education, employment, and business – are coming under scrutiny as never before.
Sheltered from any economic crisis – because wiser capitalism has eliminated financial crisis – France has full employment.
Full employment has never been maintained for so long.
The IMF and Greece’s other creditors have assumed that massive fiscal contraction has only a temporary effect on economic activity, employment, and taxes, and that slashing wages, pensions, and public jobs has a magical effect on growth.
As a result, the income of the global elite is growing both rapidly and independently of what is happening in terms of overall output and employment growth.
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