The score is calculated through an analysis of seven equally weighted indicators, each covering different dynamics of the labour market, such as education levels,
labour market flexibility and wage pressures.
We should not forget that one of the arguments used by Gordon Brown's Treasury not to delay new East European immigration in the Blair cabinet was to increase
labour market flexibility.
Deindustrialisation and labour market reforms may have increased
labour market flexibility and the responsiveness of the labour market, but has this been at the expense of the retention of vital occupational skills?
But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create
labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.
Not exact matches
The ascendency of precarious work emerged over the last three decades as Canada's
labour market was re-regulated to ensure the primacy of
flexibility, commodification and individualism.
While it's a stretch to blame all their problems on
labour -
market rigidity, a deliberate lack of employment
flexibility has certainly made it more difficult for them to adjust to changing circumstances.
The adjustment process through the current episode has also been helped by inflation expectations remaining well anchored, combined with greater
flexibility in the
labour market, relative to earlier booms in commodity prices.
The general
flexibility in the
labour market, including the ability of firms and employees to adjust hours of work, limited the rise in numbers unemployed.
The government seem determined to label this group as tax - avoiders despite their significant contributions to the UK's economy and
flexibility of the
labour market.
«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of
labour to complete
flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any
market (and every
market) if you just stand back and watch it»
Retirement benefits interfere with the
labour market's
flexibility, and the willingness of people to take low - wage jobs.
In March 2018, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation Nasser Al Hamli issued a new Ministerial Decision to «improve
flexibility in the
labour market, cut costs..
As a result, the life science
labour market is bound to become geared towards greater
flexibility.
Businesses in the skilled
labour market should benefit from improving education
flexibility, with a growing number of graduates in the recruitment pool.
Governments must demonstrate real financial and political commitment to improving the
flexibility of
labour markets.
The Hays Global Skills Index 2013 measures several key indicators that determine a country's skill shortages including strength and resilience of its economy,
labour market health, quality and
flexibility of education, and the demand and supply of
labour (particularly in high - skills industries and occupations).
Through proposals on flexible parental leave the Bill seeks to give parents more choice and
flexibility about how they share the care of their child in the first year, enabling both parents to retain a strong link with the
labour market.