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"First, we urge the government to implement supply-side reforms - particularly reform of the tax system, measures to encourage private sector investment in infrastructure and introducing more flexible employment laws to facilitate businesses' ability to react swiftly to volatile conditions, " he said.
Though staff jobs in big companies are still for life, there are fewer of them now because flexible temporary employment has caught on, especially among women.
Under normal circumstances (meaning reasonably flexible markets and reasonably high employment), employers gauge how much they are willing to pay someone to do a particular job.
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There are limits to monetary policy: the Fed does not have the knowledge to bring about full employment, which requires flexible relative prices for all factors of production.
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He believes a more flexible labour market, which might provide more employment at home, would be a better solution.
In that sense, they are the dark side of Britain's "flexible" labour market, which has enabled employment to stay strong, even when our economy is flat.
It cannot harm Mr de Villepin that France's health scares have been grabbing headlines at a time when he is trying to push through parliament a more flexible but hugely unpopular new employment contract for those under 26.
The authorities could manage a flexible, paper money system so as to help maintain full employment.
The numbers say that if the French labour market had been as flexible as America's during those years, its rate of employment would have been between 1.6 and 4.4 percentage points higher equivalent to between 14% and 38% of the difference between their actual rates.
The employment landscape is shifting and it does point to a more flexible workforce, that is, contractors, versus full time employees.
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It is perfectly feasible for European governments to retain their less flexible arrangements (high levels of unionisation, extensive collective bargaining, various employment-protection laws).
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Its 2011 employment trends survey found 96% of respondents offered at least one form of flexible working, while 70% offered three or more.
In an interview with Stateline, a news service that looks at trends in state policy, a vice-president of Remy, Jay Pittas, argued that RTW legislation makes it easier to negotiate flexible work rules, and means that unions are more likely to agree to a merit-based system of employment rather than a one based on seniority.
Precisely because the U.S. economy was flexible and strong, it created millions of jobs for the influx of many often lesser-skilled workers who sought employment during these years.
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