Sentences with phrase «global labor force»

Derek Thompson of The Atlantic interviews Economist columnist Ryan Avent about his new book on how technology is reshaping the global labor force.

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«Girls with more schooling participate in greater numbers in the labor force when they grow up, and they are able to earn more for their families and society,» the Center for Global Development reports.

Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

You have a cheap labor force, a global geographic advantage, a rising middle class.

The study said Coca - Cola, one of 10 global companies looked at by KTC, has committed to conduct 28 country - level studies on child labor, forced labor, and land rights for its sugar supply chains by 2020.

Yes, they help bolster the Social Security system, bring skill sets that the labor force might otherwise lack and provide international links to global business and opportunities.

In a bid to eradicate forced labor in global supply chains, a problem that affects 21 million people worldwide, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has released a new report, Business Actions Against...

The Fund's Slavery Footprint project aims to educate the public on the pervasiveness of forced labor in the global economy.

Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and Innovation Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, written by Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury, and Bob Stembridge, highlights these countries» public and private investments in research and development, their scientific and engineering labor forces, their output of research papers and particularly active areas of research, their academic impact as measured by citations, and their economic potential based on innovation and patenting.

Furthermore, these skillsets have become increasingly critical as we move from a factory - model labor force to a global, informational and technological labor force.

To cultivate a labor force with the creative intelligence that can compete in global business, the country is now redesigning its traditionally «drill - and - kill» schooling system to foster innovation and ingenuity.

Given global competition in the labor markets, if our wages on the low end don't reduce, isn't that a significant reason why our labor force participation rate so low?

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According to the International Labour Organization's 2012 Global Estimate of Forced Labour, there were an estimated 20.9 million people in forced labor around the world at any given point between 2002 andForced Labour, there were an estimated 20.9 million people in forced labor around the world at any given point between 2002 andforced labor around the world at any given point between 2002 and 2012.