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Stable Jobs For Workers With Intellectual Disabilities A Global Challenge
There are almost 200 million persons with intellectual disabilities in the world. For many of them, finding a stable job represents a major challenge. In Li’s case, a little help has made a big difference. Li Chao ILO News– Li Chao is making marmite at the Wan Feng restaurant in Beijing’s Fengtai district. [...]
By DEAN BAKER— How much unemployment was caused by Carmen Reinhart’s and Ken Rogoff’s arithmetic mistake? That’s the question millions will be asking when they see the new paper by my friends at the University of Massachusetts, Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin. Herndon, Ash, and Pollin (HAP) corrected the spreadsheets of Carmen Reinhart and Ken [...]
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By Philippe Egger, Director, ILO Bureau of Programming and Management– Unlike several other disciplines, economics is far from being an exact science. It is often hard to find clear answers about basic economic facts and trends. Take wages, for instance. Half of all employed people rely on wages for a living. These wages tend to reflect [...]
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Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General ILO News– ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, has called for policy reforms in the Arab region to strengthen social dialogue, tackle soaring youth unemployment, promote social protection and foster the rights of workers and employers to freely organize themselves. “What is needed is a comprehensive vision for sustainable economic and social development” [...]
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Global trade has lowered wages for non-college educated American workers while increasing the wage premium earned by college-educated workers, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute While the impact of global trade on the American economy is a frequent topic in Washington, much of the debate centers on the macroeconomic effects of the trade deficit on [...]
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By Shukuko Koyama, ILO News, KAMAISHI CITY, Japan– Ms Maekawa, who is over 60 years old, is busily cooking a dish to serve her customers in a bistro Kamaishi City, a small coastal town in Iwate Prefecture famous for its steel production, fishing industry and eco-tourism. When not cooking she comes out to greet her customers, who [...]
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Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage" title="Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage" />Explaining Africa’s (Dis)advantage Africa’s economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, firm-level data for around 80 countries are used to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms perform significantly worse than firms in other regions. They have lower productivity levels and growth rates, export less, and have …read more
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A new survey from Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shows that increased employee morale, a better public image, and efficiency top the reasons why organizations should consider a corporate sustainability program. The survey shows that 53% of organizations said their sustainability initiatives improved employee morale. Slightly more than half—51%—said sustainability programs created a stronger public [...]
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By Sam Pizzigati– Tree huggers and power suits are finding some surprising common ground. When do societies start taking a new idea seriously? Easy. New ideas gain traction when starkly different sorts of people champion them. This process is beginning to unfold with the notion of a “maximum wage,” the idea that we should limit the [...]
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The federal minimum wage in the United States has been a hotly debated ever since it was enacted in 1938. Labor activists and liberals have actively pushed for a higher minimum wage, claiming that the minimum wage must also serve as an adequate living wage for all workers. The current minimum wage rate, they claim, [...]
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