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Linking social-welfare benefits to participation in the workforce, training, or active labor-market programs also can help, as can affordable, high-quality childcare and greater opportunities for paternity and maternity leave.
In Brazil, for example, the share of women in the
workforce
has risen sharply over the past 20 years, from about 45% to almost 60%, owing in part to family-friendly policies.
We urge policymakers to take action and implement policies aimed at removing the obstacles that block women's participation in the
workforce.
Especially now, with the growth outlook uncertain in much of the world, policies that encourage more women to enter the
workforce
certainly can help.
In a careful study of rising support for populist parties in Europe, the political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Pippa Norris of Harvard found that economic insecurity in the face of
workforce
changes in post-industrial societies explained less than cultural backlash.
The second pillar of an effective crisis-response strategy is an emergency reserve
workforce
– established by the WHO, in cooperation with national governments – comprising well-trained health professionals who are prepared for rapid deployment in low-resource settings.
Success requires not only understanding the limitations of traditional measurements, but also developing a curious and self-critical
workforce
that can collaborate with partners in academia, industry, the public sector, and other national statistical institutes to develop more appropriate methods.
In developed nations, the number of the working poor reached 10-15% of the workforce, with another 5-10% of unemployed workers and 5-10% dropping out of the labor market altogether.
Rapidly falling fertility, meanwhile, ensures that the next generation inherits a large capital stock per capita: and small family size makes it easier to afford high private or public education spending per child, leading to rapid improvements in
workforce
skills.
The structural shift towards exports will be difficult and time-consuming mainly because producing the high-tech goods that the US should be exporting requires a skilled workforce, which has largely been lost and cannot be re-created overnight.
As in Sweden, state pensions should adjust automatically with the size of the workforce, encouraging immigration.
Liberalization of labor markets and greater inclusion of women in the
workforce
must occur.
In order for students to be better prepared, schools and companies will have to learn to cooperate more closely than ever before in the formation of the
workforce.
Over half of the CEOs surveyed by PwC – and 62% in the Asia-Pacific region, home to the world’s largest
workforce
and fastest-growing economies – said that being unable to find key skills could hurt their ability to grow.
Meanwhile, demographic trends, particularly in developed economies, are causing the
workforce
to shrink and giving rise to a new generation of employees with different expectations.
Business leaders need to think more strategically about how they manage their
workforce
– fueling planned growth with the right people, who have the right skills, in the right locations.
The session will address the true depth of the talent problem, the structural nature of youth unemployment, and the impact of technology on
workforce
education.
And in a world of radical automation potential, which threatens low wage growth and rising inequality, a rapidly growing
workforce
is neither necessary nor beneficial, and a slightly contracting supply of workers may create useful incentives to improve productivity and support real wage growth.
That is why Japanese policymakers should prioritize drawing more women into the
workforce.
Those who resist feminizing the
workforce
might argue that doing so would mean fewer children – and thus a new demographic complication.
But if this happens more rapidly than workers can acquire advanced skills, the result can be a dangerous imbalance between an economy’s productive structure and its
workforce.
Greater flexibility is crucial to providing opportunities for an educated
workforce
to find well-paying jobs – especially when efforts to do so are complemented by macroeconomic policies that boost demand for labor.
They would be nothing without access to a healthy, educated workforce, public infrastructure, and legal systems that enforce contracts, patents, and intellectual property.
Offering real jobs to build an indigenous
workforce
is good business.
It also needs to accommodate the millions who wish to shift away from agriculture, which still employs half of the
workforce.
Indeed, creating opportunities for women in the
workforce
is an essential pillar of the government’s reform program, so-called “Abenomics.”
In nearly every country, women and girls face systemic barriers that bar them from full and equal participation in the
workforce
and the formal economy more broadly.
To gain access to opportunities and to the resources needed to succeed in the workforce, empowerment must occur throughout a woman’s life, from early childhood to school and the acquisition of in-demand job skills.
Given this priority, the main policy response follows automatically: massive investment, on a “Marshall Plan scale,” in education and
workforce
training to ensure that humans are taught the critical skills to enable them to cope with the transition.
Considering the country’s young and growing population, the service sector needs to create more jobs for the millions who will join the
workforce
every year.
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