Showing posts with label employment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label employment. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 June 2018

Come work in Vermont - they'll pay you $10,000 to move

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Vermont is a beautiful place. We bought some maple syrup there and, according to my son, you can't go far wrong with maple syrup. The th...
Saturday, 24 March 2018

Employment quotas and state monopolies don't improve female empowerment

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From a study ( Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway ) by Marianne Bertrand, San...
Friday, 30 June 2017

I know it sounds good but will it work? Thoughts on big rises to minimum wages.

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Be careful what you wish for - or so they say : The study, commissioned by the city government of Seattle and published by the National Bur...
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Sunday, 9 October 2016

Proper Jobs for Proper Blokes - thoughts on our robot future.

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So we're having a cup of tea and a sausage sandwich as we wait out the hour before we get on the plane. And out the window we can see t...
Wednesday, 7 September 2016

A story of jobs (and why immigration is important)

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We went to Harrogate yesterday afternoon. The sun was shining, it's a nice drive and we like the town. We'd nothing planned beyond ...
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Thursday, 4 June 2015

Quote of the day - on equalities departments

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**** In an otherwise pretty standard fare article about inequalities lies this observation about Birmingham's Race Equality Unit. And ...
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Saturday, 18 April 2015

So let's not talk about the 'jobs miracle', let's talk about welfare instead!

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**** The latest figures for employment, unemployment and jobs came out yesterday and it's fair to say that they are, without question,...
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Sunday, 2 November 2014

Simon Danczuk has a point about immigration and wages - just not a very good one

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**** Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale and a rare working-class voice in the Labour Party has written a passionate - almost emotio...
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Friday, 18 July 2014

On the causes of employment...

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**** Chris Dillow, everyone's favourite cuddly Marxist, takes Tim Montgomerie to task over unemployment - or rather employment: M...
Sunday, 29 September 2013

The housing crisis that isn't...

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**** Today there will be much hand-wringing from 'experts' on housing about 'Help to Buy' , mostly from people resident i...
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Friday, 16 August 2013

On the barriers to employment...

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**** And something of a reminder. But first those barriers: The workings of the welfare system (the ‘benefits trap’), where wages we...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

This really isn't a big surprise

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**** I'm not making a partisan point here but it shouldn't be a surprise to us that : The Work Programme is not doing enough t...
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Monday, 29 October 2012

A thought on manufacturing...

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**** I visited a manufacturer the other day. Part of a multi-national business in the electronics industry. Big plant in Chadderton employ...
Friday, 27 April 2012

An interesting little jobs statistic...

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**** Back in June 2008 - before the age of austerity, before the cuts, before all those civil servants were cast on the scrap heap, public...
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Saturday, 14 April 2012

Plain packaging for tobacco will mean hundreds of job losses in Bradford

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**** The packaging industry is important to Bradford and much of it is geared to supply the tobacco industry. Introducing plain packaging ...
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Friday, 9 March 2012

Why Vince Cable should be sacked...

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**** Because he says utter tripe like this: "I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all gover...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012

A question about jobs and immigration...

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**** An exchange on twitter with Chris Dillow whose stumblings and mumblings are always worth a read, raised the issue of immigration and...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

More on our dysfunctional labour markets...

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**** Highest rates of unemployment for a couple of decades and this: ...XpertHR's annual survey of graduate recruitment found that ...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

More on the need for benefits reform...

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*** Some readers may be familiar with Debbie Purdy the 'right-to-die' campaigner but she's been in the news again. This time t...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Which came first - the job or the immigrant?

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**** In its latest piece of well-researched scaremongering, Migration Watch has been speaking of the number of jobs filled by immigrant wo...