Obama versus Romney on Jobs

The current recovery appears to be similarly slow in creating jobs.

While the Labour Law stimulates flexible adjustments in the labour market, strict collective contracts continue to be rigorous and disable job creation.

C. Employment creation, enhancement of skill levels of local workforces, and creating linkages

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Job creation remains weak, and employment continues to diverge from growth.

The result will be job creation, investment opportunities and a new direction for industry.

Employment can be created in a direct or indirect way.

As citizens start relying on redistribution, productive work is discouraged, and real wealth creation suffers.

The important thing is to achieve any fiscal stimulus that boosts job creation and puts the unemployed back to work.

A better idea is to start work now on creating a more attractive global reserve asset.

And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

Even when enacted, their near term effects on job creation would be minimal.

For example, people may see an inevitable tradeoff between tough environmental standards and jobs.

The result was a disappointing, all but jobless recovery.

We are also working on doubling the job creation rate of recent years, with the aim of adding one million jobs in the period 2010 2014.

Edward Hopper was a real master in creating the narration by working with light and dark.

The G 20 s growth compact must be a jobs compact, too.

America s recovery from recession is anemic and largely jobless.

Van Hoeydonck recalls a different set of events leading to the creation of the work.

At the end of that period, participants would receive soft business startup loans from European development banks to create employment in their countries of origin.

It was initiated to create solidarités de fait, promote political stability, and consolidate democracy and Europe's social model.

The enhanced role of the private sector in job creation leads to change of the structure of the employed according to the economic status.

Since 1987, Merck has been donating Mectizan, a medicine that helps to prevent river blindness, through a global network that includes the affected communities, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, national health ministries and NGOs. In 2004, more than 40 million people in 34 countries received free treatment.

They recognize that stable, equitable markets are better than physical infrastructure at creating jobs and driving long term growth.

By focusing on job creation, wage increases, and the social safety net, the 12th Five Year Plan could spark a major increase in discretionary consumer purchasing power.

Workers are either forced into the informal sector, where basic workplace protections are absent, or they become reliant on state handouts, creating fertile ground for populist politicians and criminals.

Recovering from both crises will require effective economic reconstruction to create jobs.

Rather, welfare policies are intended to create a compromise between the interests of employees and employers, laborers and the middle classes.

Legal requirements that significantly increase the costs of hiring and firing labor discourage employment creation in new industries.

Again, someone needs to tell Obama that imports create jobs, too, and that his emphasis on promoting US exports alone is bad economics.

The industries of the future, which will create jobs that last, are those that will use scarce resources efficiently, and that can pay the real environmental and health costs of the resources that they use.

Another worry is that the crisis will create a hard core of long term unemployed whose skills atrophy and who become stigmatized in the eyes of potential employers.

In the past 18 months, several livelihood experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO) have been helping UNHCR country offices to develop employment oriented strategies to assist displaced populations.

Nor will science create much needed jobs, except for those who work in research organizations and universities.

By focusing on job creation in services, massive urbanization, and the broadening of its social safety net, there will be a big boost to labor income and consumer purchasing power.

The US must choose between job creation, which requires a more competitive exchange rate, and cheap financing of its external and fiscal deficits.

Artificially creating a new European polity split between left and right would create new struggles and intensify old ones about redistribution.

The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible.

Under the provisions of a five year development plan, the country is trying to create jobs for its unemployed population, though the results of these efforts have not yet materialized.

Moreover, infrastructure investment not only creates jobs in the near term, but also promotes long term competitiveness.

They are often passed down within families, so they elude social policies that are based on the notion that equality of opportunity can be created by government action.

Considering the country s young and growing population, the service sector needs to create more jobs for the millions who will join the workforce every year.

It creates a virtuous circle.

By creating employment, companies can make an important contribution to fighting poverty and promoting development (UNCTAD 1999).