Not exact matches
Although the South Korean unit has been hobbled by
labor costs and hurt by GM's decision to pull its Chevrolet brand from Europe, a key export
market, any decision on whether to pull the plug on the unit will not come
easy for GM Chief Executive Mary Barra.
Kempsim speaks for the employers who want to make it
easier to find workers (and to pay those workers less) as the
labor market finally heats up after the Great Recession.
In today's tough journalism
labor market — tough because of the Internet - induced collapse of many journalism organizations — the transition may not be
easy, and the way might not be obvious.
Like the conference itself, the Rand report ranges widely, but there is near consensus on certain key points: that any attempts to assess
labor -
market supply - and - demand imbalances require a careful, analytical approach; that it isn't
easy to recognize a shortage, much less to predict one; and that right now we lack the data needed to do either.
Standing at the threshold, adjusting now is much
easier before society embraces big business (the very control freaks putting
labor and
market ahead of citizens) in space.
Mainstream conservative politicians are much more amenable to
labor market and welfare reforms that would accommodate unskilled immigration, but they have traditionally been opposed to
easy or early naturalization, and reject dual citizenship.
They did not consider that the decline of the youth
labor market, which had begun in the 1930s, may have been a far more powerful «push» on increasing high - school enrollments than the «pull» of
easier courses and watered - down graduation requirements.
This reflects the increasing understanding that in rapidly changing knowledge economies, critical thinking and problem solving are important parts of the new global skill set, whereas the
labor market demand for routine cognitive competencies — the kinds of skills that are
easy to teach and test — has declined rapidly over recent decades.
Low inflation and booming
labor markets might make a good decision
easier for the Fed, though that decision may have a bigger impact on the equity
market than the credit
market and inflation.
Easier access to credit and greater debt availability have helped many Americans afford major purchases such as homes, which have strengthened the asset side of their balance sheets, as well as college degrees, which have become increasingly necessary in the competitive
labor market.
«On the supply side, the
market is starving for new homes, but it won't be
easy for builders struggling with high and rising land,
labor and lumber costs,» Terrazas says.