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In Europe, meanwhile, many of our problems are exemplified by what is happening in France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attempt to recognize demographic and fiscal reality by raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 provoked a wave of strikes and stormy protests from workers and students.
That said, the perceived “tax burden” in China also includes non-tax expenses, including a relatively high proportion of social insurance paid for workers, the actual cost of land, resources, and financing, as well as a variety of government surcharges.
White-collar knowledge workers respond to different incentives and political appeals than do blue-collar industrial workers.
These workers do not benefit from job security and generally earn much less.
Labor rules that favor job creation – what Scandinavian countries call active labor-market policies – are needed: a combination of information, training, and subsidies that help overcome what are typically serious failures in the market for young workers with limited skills and experience.
This is not all bad; in fact, acknowledgement of globalization’s disruptive effects on millions of advanced-economy workers is long overdue.
The main culprit is technological change that automates routine manual and cognitive tasks, while increasing demand (and wages) for highly skilled workers.
At the same time, advanced economies must help workers acquire the skills needed to fill high-quality jobs in the digital economy.
Training programs should be able to impart new skills in a matter of months, not years, and they should be complemented by programs that support workers’ incomes during retraining, and that help them relocate for more productive work.
The power to tax, for example, is often used more to employ civil servants or workers in favored companies than to provide services the people want.
Initially, there may be higher costs, usually 3% to 10%, though this figure tends to fall quickly, as everyone from architects to construction workers becomes more familiar with new ways.
As for jobs, coal mining is becoming so automated that the entire sector employs just a few tens of thousands of workers in a labor force of more than 150 million.
We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot.
But it is of doubtful benefit to German workers who also would have liked to cooperate with that capital.
Only if wages adjust downward to accommodate the new international environment can German workers become competitive again, so that the country returns to a higher employment level, exploiting its human capital up to the capacity constraint.
As a result, some once-booming Chinese coastal areas now look like ghost towns, as tens of thousands of laid-off workers have packed their bags and returned to the countryside.
Similarly, in Beijing’s Korean section, perhaps half of the 200,000-300,000 inhabitants – mainly workers (and their families) who are paid by Korean companies that produce goods in China for export – reportedly have gone home.
And governments have failed to protect agricultural workers from exploitation in an increasingly competitive environment.
Greater competition and the adoption of new technologies increased the demand for, and incomes of, highly skilled, talented, and educated workers doing non-routine jobs like consulting.
But the price for protecting workers and firms was slower growth and higher unemployment.
The government has launched public information campaigns and is training election workers, strengthening cyber defenses, and conducting ongoing threat and vulnerability assessments.
And production workers’ wages rose 2.4%, faster than prices.
In order to thrive in today’s fast-changing economic environment, where technology is making many jobs redundant and rewarding greater specialization, workers everywhere must consistently upgrade or expand their skill sets.
For example, he has asked firms to increase their workers’ wages, and many firms are planning to provide a larger bonus than usual at the end of the fiscal year in March.
On the other hand, productivity growth remains weak, income inequality is increasing, and less educated workers are struggling to find attractive employment opportunities.
Workers know that change is coming, but they do not know how skills requirements are evolving, and thus cannot base their choices on concrete data.
Third, firms and individuals tend to go where opportunities are expanding, the costs of doing business are low, prospects for recruiting workers are good, and the quality of life is high.
But by proclaiming his adherence to this goal, Putin is not exhorting workers to become Stakhonovites and "exceed production norms."
As bad as his administration will be for America’s economy and workers, its policies on climate change, human rights, the media, and ensuring peace and security are likely to be no less damaging for everyone else.
The longstanding stagnation in wages for unskilled labor was attributed to low-cost, labor-intensive imports, ignoring the corollary that Western workers’ consumption of labor-intensive Asian goods offset the effect on real wages.
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