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Finance & Development March 2008 David T. Coe |
Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Gary S. Becker |
The Productivity Boom Is Just Warming Up In the past, productivity almost always fell during recessions because both labor and capital were underutilized as output sagged. But the apparent paradox of the past few years is that labor productivity has grown even more rapidly since 2000 than in the '90s. |
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Speed Bumps On The Road To More Jobs American businesses face powerful reasons not to hire |
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Weak Payrolls Mask A Tightening Job Market How companies handle rising labor costs will affect future inflation. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2008 David Blanchard |
The Biggest Challenges Facing Manufacturers -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Responses Offshore competition. Finding and retaining skilled labor. Rising costs. Government regulations. Sound familiar? Manufacturing managers share many of the same headaches and confront common challenges. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Ceyda Oner |
Back to Basics: What Constitutes Unemployment? Earlier this year, the International Labor Office announced that global unemployment last year reached the highest level on record. More than 200 million people, 7 percent of the global workforce, were looking for jobs in 2009. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2001 Paula De Masi |
Who Has a New Economy? IMF staff and other economists are conducting research into whether the relationship between information and communications technologies and productivity growth extends to other major industrial countries besides the U.S. The evidence so far is mixed... |
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 Paul Craig Roberts |
Guest Commentary: The Harsh Truth About Outsourcing It's not a mutually beneficial trade practice -- it's outright labor arbitrage |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Strong Labor Markets Put The Fed On The Spot Weak productivity and rising labor costs could force more rate hikes. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Burton et al. |
Asia's Winds of Change The path that Asian countries have traveled to growth and prosperity in the past 50 years will remain relevant for the future -- the embrace of openness, the commitment to macroeconomic stability, and the drive to adapt and reform in response to changing circumstances. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Dorothea Schmidt |
Globalization at Work The world economy has been expanding strongly... In 2005, the world's labor force ages 15 and older... The global unemployment rate in 2005 was 6.3%... Almost half of the world's unemployed are under 25... etc. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Baily & Farrell |
Breaking Down Barriers to Growth Encouraging competition is key to reviving stalled industrial economies. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2003 Edward Gardner |
Wanted: More Jobs High unemployment in the MENA region presents formidable challenges for policymakers |
Finance & Development March 2009 Lipschitz et al. |
The Domestic Solution Can China's growth be sustained through good-neighbor policies? |
CFO December 1, 2006 Edward Teach |
A Productive Debate Significant or not, the gap between pay and productivity is a subject that won't go away, particularly now that control of Congress is passing to the labor-friendly Democratic Party. |
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Fed: Trying To Shift Into Neutral Unfortunately, no one knows the rate that neither helps nor hinders growth. |
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Job Market Is Stronger Than It Looks Growth in other employment measures belies the weak payroll numbers |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Technology Ate Your Job When will it give it back? |
Finance & Development June 2010 Olaf Unteroberdoerster |
Serving Up Growth Promoting the services sector in Asia is another way to restore balance and boost growth. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 David Blanchard |
IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey Comments on Manufacturing's Biggest Challenge: The Economy As part of the IndustryWeek 2009 Salary Survey, we asked the open-ended question: What is the biggest challenge facing the manufacturing industry today? |
Reason July 2004 Brink Lindsey |
10 Truths About Trade Is globalization sending the best American jobs overseas? Hard facts about offshoring, imports, and jobs. |
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 James C. Cooper |
So Where Are The Jobs? They're On The Way Are things really as bad as the latest employment data imply? Probably not. The fact is, the recent payroll data are giving the wrong impression of the strength of the labor markets. It has happened before, especially during the early stages of the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 1, 2006 Jim Heskett |
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved? By understanding labor quality, can we better confront anxieties about outsourcing and immigration? |
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Catherine L. Mann |
Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? The U.S. current account deficit, driven by the United States' widening trade deficit, is the largest it has ever been, both as a share of the U.S. economy and in dollar terms. How much longer can the United States continue to spend more than it earns and support the resumption of global growth? |
Finance & Development September 2011 |
Unemployed in Europe European countries can take a number of steps to protect vulnerable groups from unemployment and help reduce income inequality. |
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 Robert J. Barro |
Don't Sweat The Sickly Employment Numbers Job data can be unreliable. But runaway spending is real. |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Job Markets Will Decide The Fed's Next Move The low jobless rate, despite slower growth, heightens the inflation threat. |
Knowledge@Wharton August 27, 2003 |
What Labor Shortage? Debunking a Popular Myth It's a prediction frequently made by think tanks and consulting firms that companies and the U.S. economy are going to cope with a dearth of workers in the years to come. The problem, however, is that this piece of conventional wisdom is false. |
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt |
Labor Day Here is a look at the labor force, past and present. |
Finance & Development June 2011 |
Closing the Jobs Gap High youth unemployment contributes to widespread unrest in the Middle East. |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Behind The EU Backlash The recent votes against the EU Constitution by the citizens of France and the Netherlands were a stunning rebuke to globalization. But governments must address justifiable fears with an agenda to create jobs of the future. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: A Jobs Recovery, Yes. A Hiring Boom, No. Intense cost pressures and weak pricing will keep payrolls from surging |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 |
Globalization: The Story Behind the Numbers Has globalization raised living standards?... What is globalization?... Has globalization helped the poor?... Has globalization reduced inequality?... What should governments do?... Globalization timeline... |
BusinessWeek August 21, 2006 James C. Cooper |
The Fed May Not Have Long To Catch Its Breath The trend in labor costs suggests it might need to resume hiking rates. |
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Low Unemployment Raises An Old Inflation Debate Should the Federal Reserve keep hiking rates in the face of a tighter labor market? |
BusinessWeek February 19, 2007 James Mehring |
The Housing Drag Casts A Long Shadow During 2006, productivity growth was the weakest in nine years, while the labor cost required to produce a given unit of a good or service surged. But don't fret too much: The data on productivity and unit labor costs are being skewed by the housing downturn. |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Job Growth That is Just Good Enough Despite a weak November, the labor market is giving a boost to the economy. November's hiring gains, while soft, were widespread across the economy. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2006 Anthony Annett |
Reform in Europe: What Went Right? Successful economic and social reformers can offer valuable lessons for the rest of the EU. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Why Inflation Fears Are Unfounded The Fed will have plenty of time to reverse its huge stimulus, as unused labor and production capacity prevent price pressures from building. |
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Coming Battle Between Profits And Prices Pricing power is rising, but so are costs, and that will soon squeeze margins. |
BusinessWeek August 22, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Doubts About The Productivity Slowdown What's the Federal Reserve to do about widely differing measures of productivity? |
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Offshoring: The Pros And Cons For Europe Faced with stiff American competition, more European companies, especially British ones, are starting to offshore services. Wage insurance for workers displaced by offshoring can help ease the transition. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Bannister & Thugge |
International Trade and Poverty Alleviation How does trade liberalization affect the poor, and how can they be protected against its negative short-term effects? |
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S: Can Productivity Keep Up The Good Work? U.S. productivity must stay on track with pay gains to hold inflation at bay. |
Finance & Development March 2011 Lora & Pages |
Face-to-Face with Productivity It is not lack of investment but inefficient production that holds back Latin American incomes. |
Global Services August 8, 2008 Blackman & Schweyer |
Proposition: Competitiveness of Rich Countries Workers in Decline There has been an ongoing notion that outsourcing causes dearth of employment opportunities for citizens in rich countries. They are becoming less productive and less educated than workforces in developing nations. How true is this fact? |
U.S. Banker June 2011 Mark R. Pawlak |
Sizing Up the Labor Force A drop in unemployment is typically associated with growth in the labor force. But in the current market, that's not happening, which makes the Fed's job more difficult. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Ramirez-Djumena & Rodriguez |
The Ingredients of Sustained High Growth Since 1950, 13 economies have managed to grow at an average rate of 7 percent or more for at least 25 years in a row. How did they do it? And, more important, can such high growth be repeated in other countries on a sustained basis? |
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Labor Is Keeping The Economy In Fighting Trim The job market looks healthy enough to power a strong second half. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2005 Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy -- More Jobs Will Be Lost What will happen to the U.S. economy as manufacturing employment continues to shrink? Manufacturing workers will be hurt, but not the U.S. economy generally. |