employment

…significant and rapid loss of jobs, from truck driver to anesthesiologist. Don’t get me wrong: it is not the magnitude of this change that worries me. I believe that people are continually losing their jobs to increasing technology and ultimately “upskilling” themselves (in partnership with technology) to become even better…

employee-recruitment company, with headquarters in Maynard, Mass., and New York, N.Y. In 1994 Monsterboard.com was created by American Jeff Taylor to provide online career and recruitment services. Notably, it was one of the first commercial Web sites. In 1999 Monsterboard.com was merged with Online Career…

Employment considered as a basic concept and category of labour law is a relatively recent development. Prior to the Great Depression and World War II the emphasis was upon the prevention or reduction of excessive unemployment rather than upon long-term employment policy as part…

…lead to a loss of employment; this is generally recognized by union leaders. The opposite view, that trade unions cannot influence wages at all (unless they alter the basic relationship between supply and demand for labour), is held by a number of economists with respect to the real wage level…

The ADA’s employment provisions applied to all employers with 15 or more employees; those with 25 or more were given until the middle of 1992 to comply, while those with 15–24 employees had until mid-1994 to come into compliance. The public-accommodations provisions—which required that necessary changes be…

…focused on how automation affects employment. There are other important aspects of automation, including its effect on productivity, economic competition, education, and quality of life. These issues are explored here.

…growth could supply suitable new jobs for. This created a growing problem of educated unemployment. An important factor behind the rapid educational expansion was the expectation that after graduation students would be able to obtain well-paying white-collar jobs at salary levels many times the prevailing per capita income of their…

…does not affect the long-term employment rate. Phelps observed that price- and wage-setting behaviour is based on expectations of future conditions. He demonstrated that workers will demand higher wages when costs of living (and therefore inflation) exceed their expectations. He further proved that inflation will be contained only after employment…

…simplified way by lumping all occupations together into one labour market and all goods and services together into a single commodity market. The aggregative system would thus include simply three goods: labour, commodities, and money. See

Transportation has increased employment opportunities, because one can travel to reach more potential jobs or a sales or professional person can cover a wider territory. In sparsely settled areas, for example, veterinarians and physicians make calls using small aircraft. Transportation activities also provide employment opportunities: working for carriers…

…cover all compensation made to employees for either physical or mental work, but they do not represent the income of the self-employed. Labour costs are not identical to wage and salary costs, because total labour costs may include such items as cafeterias or meeting rooms maintained for the convenience of…

…any moneys she received from employment or business, with no obligation even to give an accounting.

…as a solution to high unemployment. The General Theory, as it has come to be called, is one of the most influential economics books in history, yet its lack of clarity still causes economists to debate “what Keynes was really saying.” He appeared to suggest that a reduction in wage…

Throughout history the range of occupations held by slaves has been nearly as broad as that held by free persons, but it varied greatly from society to society. The actual range did not depend upon whether the slave lived in a slave-owning or a…

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, officials in developed countries focused on improving science, mathematics, and technology instruction, intending to not only increase literacy in those content areas but also expand existing workforces of scientists and engineers. The importance placed on the…