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For example, governments could adjust tax rates according to a company’s environmental stewardship or the size of its workforce.
In 1992, about 10% of the garment sector’s workforce was below the age of 14.
With an estimated 122 million people expected to join the African workforce by 2022, keeping up with labor trends – and delivering enough good jobs – will only become more difficult.
And in the United States, immigration is the primary reason the workforce will continue to grow; if the US relied only on native-born workers, its labor force would shrink.
Moreover, in addition to expanding the workforce, immigrants actually boost per capita GDP by increasing productivity – that is, the amount that each worker produces.
It would seem that in addition to contributing to the size and productivity of the workforce, immigrants also often complement the skills of native-born workers, helping them earn more.
Otherwise, as its population falls, it will struggle to pay pensions and health-care costs in the future (already in the decade to 2010, immigration accounted for 65% of the increase in the EU workforce).
Some are already doing so with respect to recidivism, child and maternal health, homelessness, and workforce training.
Taxing emissions while cutting the tax burden on the workforce will benefit the environment and, potentially, the economy.
Last year, the company sealed an agreement with the trade union IG Metall that includes a no-layoff pledge for its 128,000-strong German workforce.
Regardless of how one chooses to measure innovation, three conditions must be in place for it to flourish: a skilled, educated workforce; excellent information and communications technology infrastructure; and a supportive business environment.
But, even if it is not, well-chosen public investment produces high returns: new roads reduce transportation costs, and new hospitals produce a healthier workforce.
When I announced Englishnization, only 10% of our workforce was proficient in English.
All of these actors know that the kind of stable, inclusive growth that an educated workforce underpins will bring them untold benefits.
With the right education, skills, and job opportunities, this immense workforce could deliver rapid and sustainable economic growth for the entire region.
But achieving universal access will require a trained workforce, and at the moment, Africa suffers from a dearth of capable human capital.
And because of the government’s reforms and the country’s highly skilled workforce, the European Commission predicts a gradual return to growth by the second half of 2016.
In order to maintain growth and continue to attract foreign direct investment – which rose six-fold in the last decade – Africa must develop a high-skilled, well-trained workforce.
The lost human capital includes not only those who are forced out of the taxable workforce by personal illness, but also those who must drop out to care for them.
And manufacturing employs 19% of the German workforce, as opposed to 10% in the US and 9% in the UK.
I also expected to hear from business representatives about whether my proposed solutions – greater workplace flexibility, ending the culture of face-time and “time machismo,” and allowing parents who have been out of the workforce or working part-time to compete equally for top jobs once they re-enter – were feasible or utopian.
If we determine which skill sets we will need, we can educate and train the human workforce to leverage all of the new opportunities that technology creates.
Over time, as businesses have cut back on investment in response to diminishing returns, growth in labor productivity and hourly wages has slowed, and workers in many households have dropped out of the workforce.
The Female EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – Today, women own roughly 35% of small and medium-size enterprises in developing countries, and make up approximately 40% of the global workforce.
In the US, workers over the age of 55 make up 40% of the workforce in agricultural chemicals manufacturing and more than one-third of the workforce in ceramics.
The US needs to improve the quality of its workforce by developing the skills that are relevant to the jobs that its firms are creating.
Agriculture, predominantly subsistence farming, employs over 60% of the African workforce, implying widespread destruction of livelihoods, to say nothing of increased food insecurity as crops are disrupted.
But we must also invest capital in our workforce, in building up companies seriously capable of challenging the titans of the American entertainment business, as well as companies like Microsoft and Netscape, who currently have such an iron grip on new and online media.
Today, more than ever, I believe the challenges and opportunities of the multi-media world can only be addressed if we invest massively to create a trained and highly skilled workforce truly capable of taking on the world.
Arcelor, one of the oldest steel manufacturers in the world, depends very little on the highly speculative world market for raw steel, and its workforce is (on average) highly qualified and stable.
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