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And Denmark and Germany both provide good models for ensuring a smoother transition from education to
employment.
If it is to regain its clout, and preserve its treasured social and political cohesion, it must address the longer-term issues of investment, growth, and
employment.
Aren’t firms that despoil the environment, use child labor, or provide hazardous
employment
conditions also a source of unfair competition?
In the US, an effective social security system and sound public finance with surpluses at full
employment
increasingly funds for future retirees.
Third, governments need to focus on policies that create
employment
and taxpayers.
From Unemployment to EntrepreneurshipCHICAGO – It is well known that manufacturing
employment
has declined significantly in the United States, owing to the rise of manufacturing in developing countries like Mexico and China.
Employment
in all other occupations either remained unchanged or grew.
In theory, workers can adapt to these changes by seeking
employment
in occupations that include non-routine tasks, which cannot be computerized or robotized (at least not in the foreseeable future).
Selecting innovative new firms, rather than established companies in traditional industries, is essential, not least because these are the firms that will provide most of the future
employment
growth.
In addition, proposed
employment
strategies will do little to reduce labor market rigidity.
The only
employment
policy that makes sense reduces fiscal burdens on the cost of labor and increases flexibility in the market.
But unemployment is high because of taxes and excessive protection for those employed, which prevents the market from creating new
employment
opportunities.
For much of the post-World War II period, until the 2000s, strong GDP and
employment
growth in the advanced economies meant that almost all households experienced rising incomes, both before and after taxes and transfers.
And labor-market shifts – driven by technological change, the globalization of low- and medium-skill jobs, and the growing prevalence of part-time, temporary
employment
– have caused the wage share of national income to decline and the distribution of that income among households to become increasingly uneven.
Realizing a long-term vision is more difficult than ever when so many short-term imperatives – reviving growth and employment, winning elections, and re-engaging a distrustful public amid growing populist sentiment, to name just a few – materialize simultaneously.
These tax cuts should also be linked to the state of the economy, so that they would wind down as
employment
recovers (for example, to its level in 2007, relative to total population).
An even wider range of countries have laws against discrimination on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation, in areas like housing and
employment.
The counterpart to the US emphasis on self-reliance rather than direct public assistance is that
employment
must be maintained at high levels--regardless of the party in power--whereas most European countries have been prepared to accept unemployment rates of 8% or more.
So, rather than delinking economic security from employment, the challenge is to salvage traditional but more flexible forms of paid
employment.
The authors are correct to view a policy of “full employment” as necessary (though not sufficient) to win the public’s acceptance of automation.
And they even note that the US economy has been at full
employment
for just 30% of the period since 1980, compared to 70% of the period between the late 1940s and 1980.
Accordingly, monetary policy should be used to expand
employment
– even though it has consistently failed to do so.
And, “Congress and the Trump administration should also use fiscal policy prudently to maintain strong growth and employment” – even though “the worsening federal budget deficit … will unfortunately further handcuff” efforts in this direction.
Instead, we are left with the usual microeconomic measures to prepare people for algorithmic
employment
– that is, the use of big data to match people with the jobs they will need to remain consumers.
Companies – especially smaller ones – that cannot even get working capital are sure to cut back on
employment
and investment.
Only a few governments managed this difficult tradeoff well, by providing adequate unemployment compensation and skills training, and promoting new, more remunerative
employment
opportunities.
Some parts of the tradable sector (finance, insurance, and computer systems design) grew in value added and employment, while others (electronics and cars) grew in value added but declined in employment, as lower value-added jobs moved offshore.
The net effect was negligible
employment
growth in the tradable sector.
That pace of
employment
growth now appears unsustainable.
Government and health care alone accounted for almost 40% of the net increment in
employment
in the entire economy from 1990 to 2008.
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