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Instead, growth slowed, tax revenues fell, and workers suffered.
So we gave a press conference – all the opposition parties together – the day before the vote, demanding that the government release our party workers and allow people to vote freely.
Soon after, our office workers were detained, and Hailu Shawel, Chairman of the CUD, and senior CUD official Lidetu Ayalew were put under house arrest.
Workers who nonetheless have it bad can move easily to better-performing states without worries about language differences or culture shock.
The last set of proposals addresses a problem that has not been stressed enough: divergences within the eurozone reflect insufficient economic integration, for they would not have continued to widen if firms and workers had reacted more swiftly to price differences.
If profit maximization requires cutting costs and downsizing, the corporate leader can eliminate jobs and issue severance payments to redundant workers.
What happens to these workers next is a concern for somebody else – namely, the state – to address.
A politician must ensure that unemployed workers have new opportunities, or risk losing their votes.
So, when they are privatized, they become more efficient, but they also shed workers.
This is a positive development from a firm-level, partial-equilibrium perspective; but it may not be if one considers laid-off workers’ wellbeing and the general-equilibrium implications for society.
If privatization displaces too many workers without compensation, a majority of citizens could come to see it as illegitimate, potentially undermining their support for private ownership of productive property.
On the budgetary front, the new French and Italian prime ministers, Manuel Valls and Matteo Renzi, respectively, have proposed cutting taxes for low-paid workers and their employers.
Numerous members of Congress from both parties declared that it was unjust for Trump to malign the entire intelligence community – dedicated government workers, many of whom take on highly dangerous assignments.
As a dictatorship, China can ignore protests by workers and companies suffering from US tariffs.
These methods are, essentially, labor-saving devices – they make management of the animals easier and enable units with thousands or tens of thousands of animals to employ fewer and less skilled workers.
Many in Britain know exactly what they want: to impose controls on the movement of workers from the rest of the EU, thereby protecting the domestic labor market, but without losing access to the single market or passporting rights, which allow British firms to sell their financial services on the continent.
This means that the barriers that EU negotiators are in a position to impose – which largely affect trade in goods – are likely to have a much smaller impact than the UK-imposed barriers, such as quotas on EU workers.
Workers are either forced into the informal sector, where basic workplace protections are absent, or they become reliant on state handouts, creating fertile ground for populist politicians and criminals.
Unsurprisingly, rules that make it difficult to fire established workers discourage employers from hiring new ones.
Widespread corruption has bred deep discontent: workers protest the Enron-like bilking of their life savings, townspeople fight against illegal land seizures, and villagers battle injustices – small and large – on a daily basis.
Millions of health workers like my colleagues and I make immunization their daily work.
Because vaccines are useless if parents refuse to give them to their children, a big part of my job is to collaborate with health workers, community leaders, school teachers, and local political figures to educate parents about vaccines.
And once a month, we make sure that health workers deliver vaccines and other health services “the last mile” to mothers and children in remote rural areas.
The challenge there is to reintegrate into the labor force workers who have been unemployed for a prolonged period and are at risk of skills erosion.
Imagine how those workers must feel: grateful for the paychecks, but completely cynical about the value of the work they are doing.
Over the last few years Motorola has been laying off workers in the US and moving operations to Brazil, China, and its plant in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Poor workers in rich countries are the most vulnerable to BPO, and such matters, if not dealt with carefully, can fuel nativism and populism.
Opposition to BPO from rich countries has nothing to do with international labor standards, which deal with the poorest workers in poor nations.
So there is no conflict of interest with the poorest workers in developing nations because they do not compete for the same types of jobs.
But at higher skill levels, BPO does create a conflict of interest between workers in rich and poor nations.
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