China’s labor market is suffering from an unbalance between high qualified jobs and low- salary jobs, driving the People’s Republic in a dilemma. On the way to a superpower, the former low-wage country wants to climb the value chain and get a producer of high-tech and high quality products. Higher wages are supposed to boost [...]
Archive for May, 2011
22 May
Open labour markets in Europe: Opportunity or Threat?
From the 01 May, 2011 on, the Labour market in Europe is open for the East-European member states which joined the EU in 2004: Poland, Hungaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Hundreds of thousand people are expected to search for better working conditions and higher salaries in the west, especially in Germany. [...]
22 May
Consequences of Globalization – The Labour Market
Through the globalization the labour market is often no longer national or regional limited, but global. The result is that the labour supply is increasing enormously. The cost of living in Asia is often only 20% of the cost of living in Western Europe. Accordingly great is the difference in wages and salaries. In many [...]
20 May
Nice job opportunities for young workers and migrants in Munich
Munich is the Capital City of Bavaria, with some 1.35 million people; it is a large city and the third largest city in Germany. In 2010 the unemployment rate in Munich was only 4.7 % and thus below the national average. Thereby the job market in Munich has developed very positively for young workers. The [...]
19 May
Global Labour Market
Amidst the Great Recession, people are finally coming to grips with the fact that the global labour force has virtually doubled in size in the last 15 years. The doubling has resulted from the increased number of persons in the global economy that results fromChina,Indiaand the ex-SovietUnionembracing market capitalism. Having twice as many workers and [...]
18 May
Regional Labour Market – Fermanagh
To firstly discuss the general statistics of the county of Fermanagh, its population is 57,527. This accounts for 3.4% of the total Northern Ireland population. (Fermanagh had a mid-year population estimate in 2008 of 62,000.). 50.09% of the Fermanagh population is male and 49.91% female. 24.09% of the population is under 16, 62.07% is of [...]
17 May
Frankfurt am Main: 29.000 new jobs – 10.000 unemployed people less
Unemployment in the boom-town? Only on the first sight it is an contradictory result. Correct is while the number of labour force from 2006 till 2010 rise about 29.000, the number of unemployed people sank only about 10.000. Frankfurt’s rise is one of the benefits above all the surrounding areas, specifically the Taunus. There is [...]
17 May
Albania: Ten thousands of children have to work
On a conference in Tirana, the capital of Albania, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) presented a new study about child labour in Albania together with its two albanian member unions, the KSSH and the BSPSH. The study demonstrates that child labour is still a big problem in Albania. Every day ten thousands [...]
17 May
European Labour Market
In relation to the demographic profile of the the European labour market, significant changes have occured in recent years. There has been an increase in women in the labour force over the last decade, with the gender gap between men and women falling from 17.1 percentage points in 2000 to 14.2 percentage points in 2007. [...]
17 May
National Labour Market – Northern Ireland
The NI labour market has improved considerably over the past few years: employment is up; unemployment is down; and wealth (as measured by GVA per head) has risen by more than in any other region of theUK. On the other hand, levels of economic inactivity have remained stubbornly high and NI has a weak private [...]
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