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Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer (including Blackberries, iPhones, and Kindles), has 12 factories in China, including one in Shenzhen that employs hundreds of thousands of workers.
Simple measures –including easier registration, swifter visa procedures, improved information-sharing with Damascus-based aid workers, and predictable funding mechanisms – would allow colleagues in the field to concentrate on reaching those in greatest need.
First, if workers remain unemployed for too long, they lose their skills and human capital; second, because technological innovation is embedded in new capital goods, low investment leads to permanently lower productivity growth.
This confirms the huge short term welfare cost to Palestinian society of restricting Palestinian workers' access to the Israeli labor market.
Palestinian officials argue that acceptance of the Paris Protocol, which formalized the de facto customs union with Israel that has existed since 1967, was conditioned on free access of Palestinian workers to Israel.
If Israel's labor market remains closed to Palestinian workers, maintaining this regime will become increasingly counter-productive.
But a return of Palestinian workers to jobs in Israel is by no means certain.
And the rules of the global economy, administered through international arrangements such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), are widely perceived as being rigged against ordinary workers.
Governments must guarantee a living wage, adequate health care, and safe conditions for the world’s 450 million agricultural workers by enforcing the conventions on labor rights in rural areas, subject to independent monitoring.
Similarly, there was an increase in public advocacy on behalf of rural workers (who have been migrating by the tens of millions into China's cities), as well as calls for significant constitutional changes.
But those campaigning for Brexit overlook the fact that Europe has become a truly open free market, something that the UK has always wanted, and that the UK was one of the few EU member states not to limit the entry of workers after the EU’s eastward expansion of 2004.
The old jibe about American prosperity was that it was composed of jobs flipping hamburgers and armies of homeless people; the new joke seems to be one of Silicon Valley billionaires and displaced workers from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
But increased competition, restructuring, and new technologies inevitably displace workers.
Still, the creative destruction of the digital era has also enriched many tech workers and investors, while reducing the fortunes of previous incumbents.
In the early nineteenth century, a group of English textile workers known as the Luddites worried that new technologies like power looms and spinning frames would cost them their jobs.
Worldwide, one-third of employers surveyed complain that they are unable to find workers with the right skills for existing vacancies.
An abundant supply of workers who have been appropriately trained and can continue to learn boosts investor confidence and thus job growth.
In addition to training the labor force for an age of further automation, sustainable economies must offer protections for workers in good times and bad.
The complex challenges facing workers worldwide will require complex solutions.
The protectionist responses are sadly familiar: protests against foreign workers, demands for trade protection, and a financial nationalism that seeks to limit the flow of money across national frontiers.
But the approach du jour – more austerity and worsening conditions for workers in the guise of greater labor-market “flexibility” – has only made matters worse.
This new nationalism takes different economic forms: trade barriers, asset protection, reaction against foreign direct investment, policies favoring domestic workers and firms, anti-immigration measures, state capitalism, and resource nationalism.
Anemic economic recovery has provided an opening for populist parties, promoting protectionist policies, to blame foreign trade and foreign workers for the prolonged malaise.
Even in "heroic" Stalingrad, the workers' militia collapsed at the battle's beginning.
Its key feature is to shift official policy from maximizing GDP growth toward raising consumption and average workers’ standard of living.
And the funds that urban workers send to relatives who remain in the agricultural sector have helped to raise their standard of living as well.
Chinese officials hope that higher household incomes will boost consumer spending, as the tightening labor market causes wages to rise and as urbanization shifts workers from low-productivity farm work to higher-wage employment in the cities.
Making migration easier would not only open up opportunities in the cities; it would also accelerate agricultural transformation, as the fewer remaining agricultural workers would need to acquire new skills to raise productivity and wages.
But the sooner displaced workers can adapt to new realities, the healthier the system will be.
That is because population aging and a falling birth rate will slow the flow of new workers into the labor force, the source of more than two-thirds of GDP growth in recent decades.
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