Sentences with phrase «labour market policy»

Anders Björklund, Per - Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger, «Education, Equality, and Efficiency: An Analysis of Swedish School Reforms During the 1990s,» Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation Report (2004), p. 117.

I do think that we face some skills shortages down the road which create lots of opportunities for active labour market policy to be more effective.

Health Policy, Technological Change, Fiscal and Tax Policy, Education, Skills and Labour Market Policy

Without embedding intergenerational equity into Canada's labour market policy we will be headed for long - period of reduced economic growth, stagnation, or even decline.

The labour market policies that the center - right parties pro-posed in the 2006 election campaign and implemented in 2006 — 2010 were designed to cut benefits for the long - term unemployed while cutting taxes on incomes from paid employment.

Contents of the slides include... A) Causes of labour market failure - Monopsony - Trade unions - Unemployment - Economic inactivity - Segmented labour markets - Discrimination - Skill shortages - Immobility of labour - geographical and occupational immobility - Information failure B) Assessing Labour Market Policies - Education and training - Information provision - Regional policy - National minimum wage - Strengthening trade union power - Leaving to the free market

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The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

The economic implications will be profound with more competitive international labour markets and the need to adopt technologies and policies to encourage people to work longer.

These employees also collect data on the regional impact of government policies like taxation, international trade, labour markets, transportation or agriculture.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

The labour market data is improving, so the Fed is getting ready to withdraw some of its massive monetary policy stimulus — logical, you might say.

Posted by Nick Falvo under Bank of Canada, banks, China, Conservative government, economic crisis, economic growth, employment, exchange rates, financial markets, GDP, global crisis, interest rates, international trade, labour market, macroeconomics, manufacturing, monetary policy, recession, Role of government, unemployment, US.

They said in their statement that future policy will be contingent on a handful of factors, including the «evolution» of «labour market conditions.»

Posted by Nick Falvo under aboriginal peoples, Balanced budgets, child benefits, Child Care, corporate income tax, CPP, debt, deficits, early learning, economic thought, federal budget, fiscal federalism, fiscal policy, homeless, housing, income distribution, income support, income tax, Indigenous people, inequality, labour market, macroeconomics, OECD, Old Age Security, poverty, privatization, public infrastructure, public services, Role of government, social policy, taxation, women.

Posted by Nick Falvo under Bank of Canada, budgets, China, Conservative government, deficits, economic crisis, economic growth, employment, exchange rates, federal budget, fiscal policy, global crisis, household debt, IMF, interest rates, labour market, macroeconomics, manufacturing, monetary policy, recession, stimulus, unemployment.

Compared with previous episodes of booming commodity prices, a floating currency, a sound but flexible medium - term framework for monetary policy and a flexible labour market mean we are doing much better this time than in the mid 1970s or early 1950s.

Posted by Angella MacEwen under Bank of Canada, budgets, Conservative government, Dutch disease, employment, interest rates, labour market, macroeconomics, manufacturing, monetary policy.

For all those complexities, though, I still believe that we will cope best with these shocks by sticking with a flexible inflation target, a floating currency and pro-flexibility supply - side policies in labour and product markets.

Posted by Nick Falvo under BC, Conservative government, employment, immigration, income, income support, Indigenous people, Job vacanices, labour market, migrant workers, poverty, skill shortages, social policy, temporary workers, unemployment, wages, workplace benefits.

Posted by Nick Falvo under Austerity, CPP, demographics, employment, income, income support, inequality, labour market, media, OECD, Old Age Security, older workers, part time work, pensions, population aging, poverty, privatization, progressive economic strategies, retirement, Role of government, self - employed, seniors, small business, social policy, taxation, unions.

Posted by Nick Rowe on April 10, 2016 in Canada - Politics, Inequality, Labour markets, Nick Rowe, Tax policy Permalink Comments (24)

Webcast live, the invited audience included academics, other central bankers, private sector economists and financial market experts, labour union representatives, senior officials from government departments and Crown agencies, representatives from policy think tanks, and the media.

In a statement after the end of the two - day policy meeting, the central bank said, «The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative, thereby supporting strong labour market conditions and a sustained return to 2 per cent inflation.»

Subsequently, with continuing strong activity indicators, stretched labour markets and signs of possible pipeline price pressures (although core consumer prices remain benign), the Federal Reserve tightened monetary policy by 25 basis points to 5 per cent in June and then 5.25 per cent in August (Graph 5).

Today's apparently rosy Labour Force Survey should not distract policy - makers from serious problems in Canada's labour mLabour Force Survey should not distract policy - makers from serious problems in Canada's labour mlabour market.

Jennifer facilitates the contribution of the Business Council of Australia's CEO members across a policy agenda that includes economic policy and competitiveness; regulation; infrastructure and sustainable growth; labour market, skills and education; engagement with Indigenous Australians, global engagement; healthcare policy; and innovation.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

It looks particularly at the elements that have evolved differently to what was expected two years ago, such as the terms of trade, the exchange rate, growth, labour markets, inflation and consequentially monetary policy settings.

Posted by Angella MacEwen under budgets, climate change, deficits, Employment Insurance, federal budget, fiscal policy, labour market.

Posted by Nick Falvo under aboriginal peoples, Alberta, Employment Insurance, fiscal federalism, gender critique, guaranteed annual income, income, income support, Indigenous people, inequality, labour market, Old Age Security, Ontario, poverty, progressive economic strategies, Role of government, social policy, unemployment.

Posted by Angella MacEwen under Employment Insurance, labour market, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, social policy.

The policies of structural adjustment are aimed at freeing the economy and cover privatisation, the opening of the market, deregulation of labour, etc..

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

He said the availability of ready markets in the face of huge population, constant electricity, cheap labour, serene environment and other enormous opportunities for businesses to thrive abound in Lagos Island CBD, pointing out that the return of corporate organizations will indeed accelerate the vivid realization of government policy.

Labour's official policy is now to stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Labour are competitive despite Corbyn — and they're competitive because of the legacy power of the Labour brand on key issues like healthcare and housing, and also because Labour have created and marketed so many retail policies (which, to be fair, has occurred under Corbyn's leadership).

The MGI said government policy and labour market practices helped determine the ultimate extent of flat or falling incomes.

Internal Labour party disputes about regional NHS policy aren't, of themselves, going to move any political markets.

Spencer Pitfield: «The radicalism of Thatcher Governments is best encapsulated in a political philosophy and economic policies emphasising flexible labour markets, deregulation and privatisation.

@LabourLordsUK defy the Labour whip to vote for the EEA and Single Market which is, incidentally, party policy.

Owen Smith also urges single market membership but Sir Keir Starmer says that's not Labour policy.

From the late - 1980s onwards, the party adopted free market policies, [146] leading many observers to describe the Labour Party as social democratic or the Third Way, rather than democratic socialist.

Yet, agree or disagree with the Labour campaign to stay in the single market, such a policy does not represent an alternative to Corbynism as an identity, it is simply a policy (however vital people may judge it to be).

In line with our September 2016 annual conference policy, Labour should lead the drive to remain in the single market and the customs union.

But the distinctive mark of every Labour policy, from health to education, from privatised utilities to the labour market, is more government interfeLabour policy, from health to education, from privatised utilities to the labour market, is more government interfelabour market, is more government interference.

Mr Ramsden joined the Treasury in 1988 and has worked on a wide range of macroeconomic and microeconomic policy issues relating to the UK and European economies including fiscal and tax policy and public finances, the business sector and labour markets.

They also follow comments earlier this month by the Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long - Bailey, who described the aim of Labour's Brexit policy as attempting to «have our cake and eat it» on the single market and customs union.

As the UK's leading source of labour market intelligence and insight, the Skills for Business network are an authority on skills issues, helping to shape public policy and practice.