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Specific goals should include improved gender wage equality and a better balance between agricultural exporters’ prosperity and that of agricultural workers, many of whom are indigenous.
Public funding also benefits a country’s economy, because large employers are spared the expense of providing health benefits to their workers.
To understand what is happening, consider Evergreen Solar, the third-largest maker of solar panels in the US, which announced in January that it would close its main American factory, lay off its 800 workers there within two months, and shift production to China.
A recent study by the Central Planning Bureau in the Netherlands shows that workers with a permanent contract receive more employer-funded training than workers with a temporary contract.
For US employers, it is much easier to purge workers from the payroll – or, as Robert Gordon of Northwestern University puts it, to toss out every deck chair – than it is for German employers.
Germany’s labor code bars such layoffs, but German employers also are presumably less inclined than US employers to shed workers, because they have invested more in their companies’ human capital.
With fewer firm-specific skills than their German counterparts, American workers are more susceptible to layoffs.
Simply put, the greater the premium for highly skilled workers, the greater the incentive to find ways to economize on employing their talents.
Perhaps skilled workers will try to band together to get governments to pass laws and regulations making it more difficult for firms to make their jobs obsolete.
But if the global trading system remains open to competition, skilled workers’ ability to forestall labor-saving technology indefinitely should prove little more successful than such attempts by unskilled workers in the past.
Yes, we need genuinely progressive tax systems, respect for workers’ rights, and generous aid policies on the part of rich countries.
Lenin described Kerensky as the “balalaika” played by the old order to continue to deceive the workers and peasants.
In the United States, Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is taking Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, to task – quite credibly – for her close ties to Wall Street, eagerness to invade foreign lands, and readiness to embrace free-trade agreements that have undermined millions of workers’ living standards.
And the timing couldn’t have been more congenial: the Soviet empire’s collapse and China’s opening generated a surge of labor supply for global capitalism – a billion additional workers – that boosted profits and stifled wage growth throughout the West.
In France, the so-called Posted Workers Directive (which allows employers to pay seconded workers no more than the minimum rate in the host country) may not be implemented.
PS [In Depth]: Deconstructing the Urbanization ChallengeBy 2030, the global labor force will number some 3.5 billion workers, up from 2.9 billion today.
And that does not even account for the many migrant workers who live under the radar in cities and are likely to earn even less than the poorest 5%.
And who compensates affected communities and workers?
If Norway is to fulfill its proclaimed role as a leader in international climate discussions, its government must work actively to reduce production, while supporting affected workers and communities during the transition.
Yet overregulation, heavy bureaucratic burdens, policy uncertainty, poor digital and transport infrastructure, and, in some industries, a lack of skilled workers, are currently impeding investment by companies in new and existing capacity.
Education in the Age of AutomationSEOUL – As digital technologies and automation have advanced, fears about workers’ futures have increased.
Already, robots are taking over a growing number of routine and repetitive tasks, putting workers in some sectors under serious pressure.
In South Korea, which has the world’s highest density of industrial robots – 631 per 10,000 workers – manufacturing employment is declining, and youth unemployment is high.
Meanwhile, according to an OECD survey, 21% of workers reported feeling over-educated for their jobs.
This suggests that formal education is teaching workers the wrong things, and that deep reform is essential to facilitate the development of digital knowledge and technical skills, as well as non-routine cognitive and non-cognitive (or “soft”) skills.
Given rapid technological progress, improved opportunities for effective lifelong learning will be needed to enable workers to upgrade their skills continuously or learn new ones.
Well-designed and comprehensive social safety nets – including, for example, unemployment insurance and public health insurance – will also be needed to protect vulnerable workers amid rapid change.
Countries, citizens, users, consumers, producers, workers, entrepreneurs, professionals cannot be left out of the decisions that hold significant consequences for their lives and goals, indeed for the very values of society.
Marxists used to agitate that the workers of the world unite.
It manages simultaneously to fleece the people of six poor countries and to put US workers in harm’s way.
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