Job Market Monitor
Michel Cournoyer
India – Factory output and hiring are up
Indian factories in June stepped up production and hired workers at the fastest rate in more than two years, but sagging demand abroad took a toll on growth in new export orders, a survey showed on Monday. The HSBC manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 55.0 in June, a four-month high, from 54.8 in … Continue reading
Outsourcing: What’s the impact?
…The debate over outsourcing has been morphing, and today there are growing numbers of people who think that what started as a sensible, globalized extension of sending some work outside a firm to specialized companies may in fact be creating long-term structural unemployment in the United States, hollowing out entire industries. Rearranging where and how … Continue reading
Schott Solar – Layoffs as Albuquerque plant closes down
via Schott Solar announces layoffs – YouTube.
Euro Zone – Factories preparing for worse to come with more job cuts
Euro zone manufacturing took another hefty blow in June and factories are preparing for worse to come, according to business surveys on Monday that showed jobs were cut at the fastest rate in two-and-a-half years. Markit’s Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was unchanged at 45.1 in June, above the preliminary reading of 44.8 and … Continue reading
Airbus workers in France seek jobs guarantee – New Alabama plant should create about 2,500 construction jobs
Airbus should create about 2,500 construction jobs to build a new US$600 million airliner assembly plant in Mobile, Alabama, and 400 to 500 full-time jobs once production starts in 2017, a source familiar with the plans said on Saturday. The European planemaker, owned by EADS, is poised to announce plans to build the plant for … Continue reading
Performance – We won’t have time to do all this management stuff
Employee engagement invariably leads to higher performance – true or false? When I train managers from different kinds of organisations in leadership and management, I’m astonished to find out how many companies don’t actively manage performance. When we do exercises around what makes for engaging leadership behaviours, assessing their own self-awareness and emotional intelligence, or … Continue reading
Slice and dice unemployment
When you’ve looked for monthly unemployment data, you have probably noticed that you can pretty readily find those data sliced by race or gender. Sometimes you can find the data arranged by age group or by educational attainment. But each of those dimensions — race or ethnicity, gender, age, and educational attainment — operate at once to … Continue reading
Youth Unemployment – How to measure it ?
The limitations of the unemployment rate as a measure of labour market conditions among the youth population is acknowledged by Eurostat, who now publish both the ratio and the rate for the population aged 15-24. (Their recent figures for Ireland for 2011 are low and may not reflect the latest Census returns.) The distinction between … Continue reading
Mass Involontary Unemployment
There is some agreement among macroeconomists that the persistently high unemployment in the late 1970s and beyond was consistent with the economists concept of involuntary unemployment. Involuntary unemployment is a fundamental concept in macroeconomics and indicates that individuals are constrained by the systemic failure of the economy to provide enough jobs and have little power … Continue reading
Job Search Tolls: 50 Objectives statements to be customized and Google’s Online Free Resume Template
Many of the objective statements below are short, but that’s about all they have going for them. Most are too general. You can and should change your resume to fit every employer and job you apply for.
Google Docs offers ways to edit, upload, publish, and share documents from any computer with an online connection making it an excellent no-cost resource for the job seeker community to utilize.
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Might income inequality make structural adjustments more difficult?
The growing public debt in many nations has brought fiscal rebalancing to the top of policy agendas. This means raising taxes, or cutting expenditure. Recent US experience in the US and other nations suggest the presence of structural factors accounting for resistance to tax reforms.
Canada – Skilled Workers Immigration: brakes on
Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says it’s time to hit the “reset button” and temporarily put the brakes on new applications under two programs popular with skilled workers wanting to come to Canada from abroad. Kenney told a business audience Thursday that the government is placing a six-month moratorium on the Federal Skilled Worker Program … Continue reading
Employers attitudes to older workers are changing along with their desire to remain in the workforce
When the Treasury published its first Intergenerational Report (IGR) in May 2002, it alerted governments to the looming problem of an ageing population. A smaller proportion of the population would be working to support a growing proportion in retirement and relying on government services, notably health care, and income support. It was a fiscal disaster … Continue reading
The American People are angry because they are living through the worst recession since the great depression
Madam President, the American people are angry. They are angry because they are living through the worst recession since the great depression. Unemployment is not 8.2%, real unemployment is closer to 15%. Young people who are graduating high school and graduating college, they’re going out into the world, they want to become independent, they want … Continue reading
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s coincident indexes for states decreased in nine states
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has released the coincident indexes for the 50 states for May 2012. In the past month, the indexes increased in 34 states, decreased in nine states, and remained stable in seven states, for a one-month diffusion index of 50. Over the past three months, the indexes increased in 47 … Continue reading
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