Further, says Judy, because of European retraining programs, European work-force participation is overstated.
That means low-level work experience at whatever price which is often the critical first rung up the work-force ladder.
But they really have a different problem: low work-force participation.
It was also the second consecutive month in which the work-force grew, and the second month since last July in which the civilian labor force participation rate increased.
Now, when we retire, at present rates of work-force participation and birth rates and immigration rates, there will only be about two people working for every one person drawing Social Security.
"Among issues that businesses are concerned about is what kind of work-force will they have, what will it do to education and will it alter the quality of life, " he says.
Since the early 1980s, the Defense Department has successfully experimented with improvements in personnel practices that have made possible considerable enhancements to civilian work-force performance and morale, while permitting some cost-savings.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Microsoft Corp. today announced a joint task force to help higher education institutions worldwide meet the growing challenge of supporting economic stimulus efforts and work-force development strategies.
Employers' problems feed, in a vicious cycle, the urban problems--like regional and racial divisions, lousy city schools and a poorly prepared work force--that seem to afflict St.
In the early 1990s they had devised a way for businesses and other organizations to measure nonfinancial performance--customer perception, for example, or a company's ability to foster knowledge within its work force--and measure talent it wanted to keep or promote.
All of this is causing an increase in inequality in America rather than a decline, as higher income workers are not being forced into part-time work, dropping out of the work force, or suffering mid-wage jobs being replaced by low-wage jobs.
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Communist China, with two-thirds of its urban work force employed in state-owned industries, is anything but a free market.
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The minimum wage directly affects only a very small percentage of the total full-time work force (1.5 out of 102 million), though lots of part-time workers too.
Tatar plans to reduce Mead's white-collar work force of 5, 000 by 7% by the middle of 1999.
Hefei offers a well-educated work force, sometimes for about a third of the cost of hiring in Shanghai.
Security screening has tightened, as Congress debates how to revamp the system while attracting a higher-quality, better-trained work force.
Demands for cuts to the country's public-sector work force are also being discussed.
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Raising NCR's productivity to at least IBM's standards would mean either cutting about half of its 35, 000-strong work force or increasing sales by 40%.
This means it's increasingly essential to combine the vast potential native U.S. talent and our strong educational institutions to develop a more sustainable high-technology work force.
So they teamed with a nonprofit organization called the Motor City Blight Busters, which provides a low-cost work force that renovates the homes for Urban Detroit Wholesalers to sell.
It will take in two other mega-projects: the planned administrative center of Putrajaya and a separate "intelligent city" nearby that will provide commercial and residential facilities for the MSC's high-tech work force.
Until 1981, companies like Apple set up shop in Ireland because it offered not only an eager, English-speaking work force and ready access to European markets, but a 10 year tax rate of zero percent.
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The system is guaranteed to produce a less-qualified work force than simply picking the highest scorers, but it was used for years in the New York Police Department, until the Giuliani administration abolished it in the mid-1990s.
Knoblauch, who spent 20 years at Honeywell and is the first outsider and non-engineer to run UL, turned over 34% of the 6, 000-strong work force (with more cuts coming as this issue went to press), spent tens of millions on new computer systems and expanded overseas.
And, as they phone home, holiday-makers might even mutter a word of thanks for the European Commission's work to force down outrageous mobile-roaming fees.
Our economy could greatly benefit from a return to the pre-Kennedy, non-unionized government work force.
Caveat: Not everyone can re-enter the work force at age 66 as easily as Jeff.
It has trimmed 5% of its 143, 000-person express work force by attrition.
I'll propose budgets that spend less money each year than prior years, and I'll reduce the nondefense-related federal work force by at least 10%, without replacing them with private contractors.
Japan, by contrast, needed to scrap its antiquated banking system, migrate half of its industrial work force into new-technology exploits and open up its service economy to the withering discipline of foreign competition.
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