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It tightens costs, and outsources work as much as possible, so its workforce is paid less than Arcelor’s employees and is less stable.
Its workforce stands to suffer, slowly but surely, from erosion of its relative advantages in terms of wages and job security.
The bill created a more educated workforce and ushered in a period of rising incomes for most Americans.
A half-century ago, the US economy supplied an abundance of manufacturing jobs to a workforce that was well equipped to fill them.
Second, the educational attainment levels of the workforce must be increased.
At that time, one had to be careful, given the government’s sensitivities, even about how one framed the country’s problems – its poverty, lack of rural productivity, and unskilled workforce.
China’s government, by emphasizing the need for a better-educated workforce to compete with the West, is fueling this trend.
Beyond lobbying, the current system is upheld by mythology: the belief that keeping older people in the workforce worsens unemployment.
This imbalance has already driven some governments to raise their retirement ages and change their pension policies to delay or reduce benefits and keep people in the workforce.
Thus, as Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum observes, the “scarcity of a skilled workforce rather than the availability of capital is more likely to be the crippling limit to innovation, competitiveness, and growth.”
Participation in the workforce is linked not only to income levels, but also to self-esteem, social inclusion, and social status.
The German system of vocational training has matched the skills of the country’s workforce to the needs of its firms, contributing to low youth unemployment.
There is substantial evidence to suggest that birthplace diversity within a country’s college-educated workforce is positively associated with productivity and economic growth.
But its political class will have to confront some hard realities and face up to the fact that Californians who pay no income tax (almost half the workforce) will have to start paying for services, and that services will have to be more carefully targeted.
If properly managed, the economic benefits will be significant both for the developing world (higher remittances, but also greater opportunities for learning and experience) and rich countries (a younger, dynamic, and often entrepreneurial workforce).
The location of these lesser-known clusters underscores the point that investors, seeking low-cost real estate and a skilled workforce, should look more carefully at India’s economic geography when deciding where to place their operations.
While the true NAIRU level is probably lower, and we are likely witnessing a secular decline in the workforce participation rate, the US labor market should still tighten in 2016.
As manufacturing wages rise and labor intensity falls, Asia will need to rely more on services to create jobs for the millions of people who join the workforce each year.
Women comprise half of the agriculture sector’s workforce, growing, selling, buying, and preparing food for their families.
Every day, some 1.1 billion people – one-third of the global workforce – go to work at the world’s farms.
But, because migrant labor makes up the bulk of the agricultural workforce, this gap in coverage has become a canyon.
But, given that South Korea’s workforce already includes a substantial share of non-regular workers, increasing temporary employment may not contribute to economic growth.
It does not make financial, social, or economic sense to exclude them from the workforce – especially when many of them would enjoy working part time.
The most serious structural flaws concern high payroll taxes and labor-market regulation, which make it difficult – or at least prohibitively expensive – for firms to reduce their workforce when business conditions worsen.
In a poor country where the bulk of the workforce is employed in traditional agriculture, the rise of urban industrial opportunities is likely to produce inequality, at least during the early stages of industrialization.
Over the past 50 years, women’s roles have changed dramatically, with almost 60% of American women now in the workforce.
It is one thing to let women into the workforce; it is quite another to embrace full equality and create a cultural, economic, and social climate that encourages both men and women to support one another and their families equally with cash and care.
Thus, China will have to withdraw an increasing proportion of its female workforce and deploy it for reproduction and childcare.
Even if China can engineer this, it implies an immediate outflow from the workforce, with the benefits lagging by 25 years.
The United States is one of a handful of advanced countries with a growing workforce, owing to its relative openness to immigration.
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