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Bureau Of Labor Statistics Technological Progress
1,722 words... used goods grows and remains high, employment in the secondary sector remains high as well. There is also a third, or tertiary sector of employment comprising such activities as the service trades, teaching, administration, scientific research, medical care, art, and tourism, as well as other pursuits that are not carried on in factories. Technical progress in those areas is slight, compared to that in the primary and secondary sectors, and so the activities in the tertiary sector require a ...
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Economic Recovery Medium Term
1,147 wordsThe Current Economy and Medium-Term Growth Prospects Summer 1999 brought several indications that the recovery is slowly starting to gather momentum. Public investment, the zero interest rate policy, and an easy lending stance backed by government credit guarantees has clearly had an effect. Full-scale private sector restructuring has also helped put corporate profits back on an uptrend and this is having a major macroeconomic impact. The authorities have recognized that the rejuvenation of indu...
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War With Mexico Political And Economic
1,176 wordsIn the past decade, the discussion about Mexico in Washington has changed. The discussion used to focus on Mexico's stability and growth that was provided by their unique one party system. Over the past decade, the Mexican one party governmental system has fallen apart, their economy has severely declined, and violence and corruption have become major problems. The United States can no longer take for granted political and economic stability in Mexico. The problems that are occurring in Mexico d...
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African Americans Affirmative Action
1,847 words4. THE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: THE CONTINUING NEED TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION AND PROMOTE INCLUSION Affirmative action was established as part of society's efforts to address continuing problems of discrimination; the empirical evidence presented in the preceding chapter indicates that it has had some positive impact on remedying the effects of discrimination. Whether such discrimination lingers today is a central element of an analysis of affirmative action. The conclusion is clear...
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Flexible Work Arrangements Employee Satisfaction
1,056 wordsNeeds, values and priorities of employees and employers have changed dramatically over the last decade. On all rungs of the corporate ladder, men and women are seeking new ways to manage the time they spend working so they can spend more time living. In the boardrooms, executives are seeking ways to attract - and retain - the best employees so they can continue to survive and thrive in a highly competitive global economy. Interestingly enough, solutions to the changing needs and priorities of bo...
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Is There A Criminal Underclass In American Society
1,270 wordsThe notion of a criminal underclass within society is a complex matter. With the simple phrase comes a barrage of uncertainties and possibilities with much being written in recent decades on the subject. In fact the concept of an underclass has been around in a form since at least as far back as 1810 when Malthus explained it in terms of the over-production and over-population of the lower classes and saw the solution as encouraging the lower classes not to breed. Our understanding of underclass...
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Capitalism And African American History
2,500 words... ry. (Cell 6) It is here reasoned that because of the influence of the white proletariat given the development of the South African economy as characterized by agriculture and a slow progression towards industrialization, the white procreates, the primary constituency of the Nationalist government had great influence over the economic policies of said government. AS such capitalist policies would proceed in a manner that compromised economic growth in order to secure greater wealth for whites...
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Neo Liberal Welfare State
616 wordsThe second dimension of the transfer of political functions onto civil society is a cultural one, based on ongoing processes and declared needs to rebalance the individual's sense of rights and obligations in modern societies. A reinforcement of the individual's sense of obligation can regularly strengthen the citizens' propensity to see first whether they can themselves jointly solve problems which emerge in their daily life sphere by spontaneous co-operation, and only inasmuch as this is not p...
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International Monetary Fund World Trade Organization
2,317 wordsSeven years of trade negotiations at last gave birth to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, the U. S. labor movement was one of its leading skeptics. A world trade organization, labor supporters argued, would only accelerate the headlong rush to laissez-faire by dismantling national regulations. It would overwhelm attempts by nations to defend living standards and the ability of unions to fight for wages and health and safety lawson it would make it harder for nations to defend the right...
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U S Government Labor Market
886 wordsHOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE CURRENT ECONOMY IN THE UNITED STATES? I am, as a concerned citizen, would like to receive a comprehensible answer about when the American fiscal policy is going to be brought back to sanity. Our national debt has reached $ 8. 417 trillion in this month, which means that every American carries a burden of government debt of $ 27. 749 dollars, as it is out of our pockets that the government pays its foreign bills. The most fundamental reason why U. S. foreign debt increas...
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Gdp Real Growth Goods And Services
2,517 wordsGermany is the world's third most economically advanced country after the US and Japan, though it took a lot of various recourses to balance the economy of the East and the West after unification. Recently its inflation rate is one of the lowest in Europe and GDP growth is stable. The main problem is high unemployment. German economy is heavily export-oriented, with exports of over one-third of national output. Germany tries to encourage overseas investors. Corporate restructuring and growing ca...
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Division Of Labor Neo Liberal
2,166 wordsThe Third Way Throughout the past centuries, much of our worlds nations have converted from various types of governments to a democracy of some kind. Of all of the countries that have switched to this type of government, none has found this form of government to be undesirable. What is it that makes Democracy so impressive? The answer to this question is both obvious and abstract. In many ways, understanding Democracy is easily explained, yet it is also very complex because every nation has a di...
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World Trade Organization Bretton Woods System
1,628 wordsOrganizational applied Research TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 1 GOALS/OUTCOMES 1 - 2 ACTIVITIES 2 Motivating Change 2 Creating a Vision 2 - 3 Developing Political Support 3 - 4 Managing the Transition 4 - 7 Sustaining the Momentum 7 - 8 Institutionalization Timelines 8 - 9 REFLECTION/ANALYSIS 9 - 11 REFERENCES INTRODUCTION: Seven years of trade negotiations at last gave birth to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, the U. S. labor movement was one of its leading skeptics. A world tr...
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Skilled Workers Secondary Education
491 wordsFor many skilled workers who are in the work force, the question of continuing education is always on their minds. Should they pursue secondary education? Is it too late? Will they have time and resources? Do the rewards worth the efforts? In todays competitive working environment, it is an essential for job seeker to have a solid education background. With the advancement of technology, the skilled workers now cannot depend only on their skills and hard work to gain better wages and promotion a...
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Number Of Women Labor Force
1,852 wordsWorld War II marked a retreat from the existing notions of womens capabilities and proper roles. With the men gone at war, women had to take over the work force. Government propaganda encouraged women to do their patriotic duty by leaving their homes and entering the workplace. At the wartime peak in July 1944, 19 million women were employed. This was an increase of 47 % over the level in March of 1940. For the first time, married women outnumbered single women in the work force. Women over thir...
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Million A Year Legal And Illegal
1,497 wordsEnglish May 23, 1998 Research Paper Illegal Immigration Should Be Allowed Along the dusty Mexican boarder California and Texas, new chain link fences are being built to keep out unwanted immigrants. In Sacramento the California Legislature looks with suspicion at the bilingual education it once possessed. In Los Angeles there is renewed political pressure to deny non emergency medical services unable to provide proof of citizenship. These reactions reflect a persistent and growing belief that il...
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Income Inequality Unskilled Workers
679 wordsIncome inequality in the United States remained relatively stable for a period of nearly forty years. Beginning in the 1970? s, however, this period of stability ended, as the first signs of widening income inequality became apparent. Over the course of the 1970? s and 1980? s, an increasingly clear trend toward greater income inequality emerged. By the end of the 1980? s, the top 20 percent of workers were receiving the largest share of income ever recorded by government figures, and the bottom...
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Labor Force Participation 20 Th Century
2,737 wordsBeing middle class has emerged as a vital part of the 20 th-century American psyche. The majority of Americans define themselves as middle class, regardless of their actual income level. This perception is obviously off-base, but with no official definition, its hard to pin down how much Americans overestimate their middle-class status. Its not difficult to understand why they do it, though. Generations of immigrants to the United States have come seeking streets paved with gold. Trying to do be...
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Equal Pay Act Pay Equity
1,284 wordsMichael D Beach Title: Pay Equity vs. Pay Equality Abstract: Pay Equality means equal pay for equal work, but pay equity programs throughout the world attempt to legislate and regulate the elimination of systemic gender-based wage discrimination and to ensure ongoing systems that will maintain equitable wage relationships over time. Six Pages APA Citations, Seven Sources Pay Equity vs. Pay Equality In 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, making it unlawful to discriminate a...
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Social Democratic Party Prime Minister
3,316 words1. State (also included is additional basic information): Sweden, a fairly small country, located in Northwestern Europe on the Scandinavian Peninsula, shares its borders with Norway on the right, and Finland on the left. The northern region of Sweden is within the artic circle whereas the south is more temperate with heavily cultivated fertile land. It is known for its cold winters and large forests. It is ranked 83 rd in the world population with over 8. 9 million people. It is a highly urbani...
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