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UK – Young people seeking low-skilled work: at the heart of the Jobs Gap
The UK labour market has become more challenging for all jobseekers, with unemployment particularly high among young people and those with limited education and skills says a Report by the Joseph Ronwtree Foundation. This research describes the difficulty of job searching for young people seeking low-skilled work, examining three contrasting local labour market areas in England … Continue reading
Manufacturing Jobs Across Presidential Administrations : gains during Democratic terms, significant losses under the Republican
State-level manufacturing job growth has varied across the 16 presidential administrations since 1948, with significant gains in most states across the seven Democratic terms and significant losses under the nine Republican, according to The Manufacturing Jobs Score, 1949-2011, a new analysis of official government data by the Keystone Research Center (KRC) and Iowa Policy Project … Continue reading
Canada – Employment Insurance – EI recipients participating in employability measures should be exempted from the application of the proposed provisions on convenient job
Canada – Employment Insurance – EI recipients participating in employability measures should be exempted from the application of the proposed provisions on convenient job
US – Federal Employees – 2 percent of total employment, less than half of what it was in the early 1960s
In our country, tax cuts and spending increases gave the economy a badly needed boost in the depths of the recession and early in the recovery. But these stimulus measures have been expiring. At the same time, states and localities have cut spending and raised taxes as they struggle to balance their budgets. As a … Continue reading
China – Job losses may be looming
Recent economic data such as stronger-than-expected exports and benign inflation in September are the latest signs that China’s slowdown may be nearing an end, reducing pressure on the government to implement more stimulus measures to shore up the world’s second-biggest economy. However, some observers are now concerned about a less-cited economic indicator – employment – … Continue reading
France : Fixing a broken social model
Taking as its starting point the programme and campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election of 2007 around the ‘value of work’, this article reviews and assesses the main reforms undertaken during the period of his presidency. It focuses on the reform of working time regulations through tax exoneration for overtime hours, minimum income … Continue reading
US – 14 million white-collar jobs are vulnerable to being outsourced offshore
Is offshore outsourcing good or harmful for America? To convince Americans of outsourcing’s benefits, corporate outsourcers sponsor misleading one-sided “studies.” Only a small handful of people have looked objectively at the issue. These few and the large number of Americans whose careers have been destroyed by outsourcing have a different view of outsourcing’s impact. But so … Continue reading
China – Graduates willing to take less for first position
More than half of college students who will graduate next year are willing to accept a monthly salary of less than 4,000 yuan ($638), according to a survey released on Saturday. The survey, conducted by renren.com, a popular social networking website which launched its job-search service for graduates in July, ran from Aug 21 to … Continue reading
US – Closing The Jobs Deficit
The latest data on employment in the United States confirm that the American economy continues to recover from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, despite the slowdown engulfing the other G-20 nations. Indeed, the pace of private-sector job growth has actually been much stronger during this recovery than during the recovery from the 2001 recession, and … Continue reading
Washington – Retirements surge, new hires plummet
The federal government’s long-awaited retirement wave is here, and it’s smacking headlong into the biggest hiring slowdown in a decade. And it’s not just retirements. Overall attrition shot up in 2011, which caused the government’s total workforce to drop by its greatest amount since the height of the government downsizing in 1999. With no end … Continue reading
Those who feel powerful save their smiles for those below them in the pecking order
Those who feel powerful at work tend not to smile back at important people and instead save their smiles for those below them in the pecking order, researchers say. “Our interpretation of this is that when you are feeling powerful and see a low-status person, you are almost throwing them a bone, thinking “Oh, I … Continue reading
Veterans – A Coalition To Train for Manufacturing Jobs
To fill advanced manufacturing jobs, a new coalition of employers will train veterans, and help them to translate their wartime skills to civilian use, writes GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt. In 1999, as soon as he completed high school and following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, Lionel Hamilton enlisted to serve … Continue reading
Australia – In what ways can Lifelong Learning continually enhance employment prospects?
Lifelong Learning (LLL) and Employment Prospects: An Australian case by Allie Clemans, Anne Newton, Robbie Guevara and Sally Thompson try to answer the headline question, “In what ways can LLL continually enhance employment prospects?” The Australian case study has been guided by two objectives: 1. Identify the relationship between LLL and employment prospects in policy and practice; and, 2. Document existing … Continue reading
Labor Market Institutions – High unemployment rates have weakened the prime facie case for deregulation and less intervention
Labor Market Institutions: A Review of the Literature by Gordon Betcherman on worldbank.org looks at the findings of over 150 studies on the impacts of four types of labor market institutions: minimum wages, employment protection regulation, unions and collective bargaining, and mandated benefits. The review places particular emphasis on results from developing countries. Impacts studied are … Continue reading
Working America – An Overview
Daily stock indices, monthly employment reports, and even quarterly data on the gross domestic product are insufficient indicators for answering this vital question: How well is the American economy providing acceptable growth in living standards for most households? EPI’s The State of Working America, 12th Edition looks broadly at available data and concludes that the … Continue reading
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