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The pattern is that of an economic upturn beginning to press on primary producing capacity, and in the UK on the labour market too.

Mr Menon says that the turnover of staff declines when the company hires from vocational schools rather than the general labour market.

One of the catalysts for the upward trend in wages is demographic, with a falling number of young Chinese entering the labour market.

Nothing would be so effective as a strong economy and a tight labour market.

However, the bank's report clearly stated that this would require better education, labour market reforms and less red tape.

Migrants, he said, had mostly filled gaps in the labour market left by a welfare system that "paid British people not to work" .

He said the crucial question was whether the global labour market could sustain a recovery "without the US cylinder firing" .

Spain is often cited as the big EU economy most in need of labour-market reform.

Youngsters who have been jobless for a year or more tend to do worse in the labour market for the rest of their lives.

More recently, however, consumers seem to be flagging despite the strong labour market. Retail sales fell in April.

The news is still bitter, though, because we have yet to see the gains of economic growth translated into the still-decrepit labour market.

However, he said "the weak labour market and the declines in equity and housing wealth" would continue to weigh on spending.

The rise seems to show that people who dropped out of the labour market when prospects looked bleak are now willing to rejoin it.

The central bank recently referred to its "extremely favourable labour market developments" .

The issue now is to see how the measures will be implemented, especially those concerning the labour market.

Having long taken their labour market's flexibility for granted, Americans may now have to work at it.

It may try to deregulate the labour market a little, even if it is unlikely to challenge the country's powerful trade unions overtly.

Yet governments are often reluctant to leave migration flows to the labour market.

Over time, consumer spending should also be supported by an improvement in labour market conditions.

Its prominence has had much to with the global dominance of its culture, the allure of its labour market and its lavish bursaries.

Rising commodity prices are not the only worry. The labour market is weak, with continuing jobless claims at a cyclical high.

Other high-profile plans, such as labour-market reform and central-bank autonomy, seem to be off the agenda.

But these measures did not spike most dramatically when there was bad news about the labour market.

Another reason is the flexible nature of our economy, in particular the labour market.

Over the medium term the need for IT specialists is to be satisfied on the domestic labour market.

Just as important is a comprehensive reform of a labour market which favours insiders.

He questioned the efficiency of the City's labour market, where 50% of profits are often handed out in bonuses.

The caretaker government may be unable to enact big spending plans, but nor can it make labour-market reforms that are sorely needed.

And the relative flexibility of the labour market here in the UK compared to others in Europe may also be a factor.

Since that lull came as a surprise, however, no one can be sure that the labour market will conform to historical experience.

Currently, and in the next five years, China has to create at least 20 million jobs to absorb the young people entering the labour market.

Imports and exports obviously contribute to a great deal of churning in the labour market.

Policy suggestions are discussed in terms of management of floating population, household registration system, and urban labour market.

In 2006 Dominique de Villepin, then prime minister, did not bother to discuss a labour market reform that he pushed through by decree.

Germany is reaping the benefits of years of wage moderation and labour-market reforms that improved its competitiveness.

Jobless claims had been on an improving trend and the reversal suggests that momentum in the labour market may have stalled.

Bold labour-market reforms to make it easier to fire workers will not be, to avoid upsetting Mr Zapatero's trade-union friends.

Ministers fear it will take time for the full impact of last autumn's financial trauma to show up in the labour market.

As for lifetime employment, it wasn't so long ago that Japan's labour market model was the one that others sought to emulate.

High energy prices and a weaker labour market appear to be taking their toll on consumer spirits.

THE dismal labour market has not sapped the government's ardour for welfare reform, nor that of voters.

"The labour market did not adapt to utilise these new skilled workers, " he says.

The labour market outlook is even worse, with double-digit unemployment for at least another year.

One of the goals of this legislation is to respond to Canada's labour market needs.

The conclusion of a study by the IAB labour market institute comes amid fresh signs that Germany's fledgling recovery is gaining momentum.

Spain's rigid labour market must be reformed to reduce unemployment of 20% and also to help those on temporary contracts.

What Portugal needs more than anything is an overhaul of its rigid labour market to foster greater competitiveness.

This world of difference continues almost a year in Shenyang labour market of migrant workers.

The US labour market (like the UK's to a smaller extent) has always had high turnover.

In the beginning, wage labour will be necessary and will remain possible whenever anyone likes to work on the labour market.

At its best, then, the American labour market does not dispose of its workers; it recycles them.

The combination of a weakening labour market, slipping house prices, tighter credit and higher fuel costs will weigh on domestic spending.

FOOTBALL'S labour market, like the game itself, is global, and European clubs are keen hirers of foreign talent.

Also needed is a grand bargain to tackle the informal economy, in which labour-market reform is linked to a stronger social safety-net.

It is expensive to send students abroad, conduct international research and compete for the best academics in a borderless labour market.

Poland's economic strength in recent years belies a bloated bureaucracy, laxity in public finances and a clogged labour market.

People who are out of work for a time tend to become detached from the labour market and struggle to return.

Since spending depends on employment it is critical to determine whether the labour market will remain weak.

Until the labour market shows continuous improvement, consumer spending will not be sustainable.

Labour-market reforms will help workers from crisis-hit industries to move to more vibrant parts of the economy.

"In a tight labour market, what we have given them probably helps. The MSc has turned out to be a useful tool for them. "

And labour-market reforms are not all that he is shying away from.

German wage-setting has become less centralised and the labour market freer, at least at the margins.

There is still plenty of evidence to support the view that Germany's problems stem from its rigid labour market.

That may be premature, given the pain shown in the latest labour-market figures.

It may be the result of some peculiarities of the UK labour market.

It is widely believed that China needs to grow by 8% a year to absorb new entrants to the labour market.

Without labour market reform, Spain is unlikely to make a full recovery in the long run.

Ahead of Friday's non-farm payrolls, yesterday's ADP report hinted at better than expected labour market growth in September.

Remember, even if HRSDC has given a positive labour market opinion, there is no guarantee that you will get a work permit.

Even if job losses in construction and manufacturing begin to push up the unemployment rate, the labour market will still be tight.

The labour market had been largely freed, with centralised wage-fixing replaced by enterprise bargaining.

But economic and labour-market policy would be co-ordinated, and foreign and defence policy would be ceded to the federation.

But the emergence of the new hybrid model has been accompanied by the worrying creation of a two-tier labour market.

In such a tight labour market, companies appease workers by offering higher wages.

Since 2000 they have had an especially hard time, explains Andrew Sum of Northeastern University's Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS).

But to maintain fast growth as the labour market tightens, China's floating population will have to drop anchor.

For a decade or more, the labour market has been working better than before.

That was the old rule of thumb for the growth needed to absorb new entrants into the labour market.

The housing bust, the credit crunch and a weakening labour market have dragged down domestic spending.

Occupation is the most trusted guide to class, but changes in the labour market have made that harder to read than when Orwell was writing.

Hard on its heels come fast-growing Guangzhou (top for infrastructure) and the capital, Beijing (home to the best labour market).

For all the labour-market pain, some areas are experiencing a strong rebound.

Social integration through participation in the labour market should not exclude productive activity in other spheres of life.

AMERICA'S great labour market slump continues to cast its pall over the economy, leaving one lonely group in particular shrouded in shadows.

Different societies, even within Europe, have different expectations for social solidarity, labour-market flexibility or public spending.

The labour market is too inflexible for an economy seeking rapidly to redeploy resources to higher - value industries .

But Bahrain is itself pioneering a sweeping reform of its labour market, designed to make foreign labour more expensive.

The British labour market turned the corner late in the summer.

Labour market reforms should help to facilitate appropriate wage-setting, as well as labour mobility across sectors and regions.

America's labour market may be unique in the extent of its middle-class troubles, but not in their existence.

It is not a free labour market, but a stagnating economy that threatens employment.

However , as the US labour market is already among the most flexible, says Mrs Romer, there is little " low-hanging fruit " .

Germany's closed labour market may look like a detail amid global economic turmoil. But it matters.

A big issue across the region is low labour-market participation, particularly among the over-50s in Poland and Roma (Gypsies) everywhere.

In the UK , labour market data yesterday showed youth unemployment slipped back in the second quarter .

Early-retirement programmes were introduced in an effort to clear space in the labour market for younger workers.

All this took a toll on the labour market.

Historically researchers have used everything from labour-market statistics to data about commuter travel to calculate "optimal" borders.

The inequities of a dual labour market will become more glaring the higher unemployment rises.

Countries should pursue policies to manage the insecurities of life in the new century's labour market, it urged.

These criteria acknowledge that those under 28 may be highly skilled but will have had limited time in the labour market.

Within a monetary union this has to be addressed through internal devaluation via the labour market.

Entry into the EU may stimulate emigration, though most existing members have slapped on temporary labour-market restrictions.

In the current labour market, it isn't too difficult to understand why a worker would do this.

But labour market data have been notoriously difficult to interpret lately be-cause of many distortions.

Earlier labour-market reforms continue to put pressure on the unemployed to find work, notes Eckart Tuchtfeld of Commerzbank.

Meanwhile, the biggest dangers lie in an area that politicians barely mention: the labour market.

So tight is the labour market that the economy of western Wyoming is suffering a first-world version of the resource curse.

The similarity of the trends suggests that forces bigger than domestic politics or labour market characteristics are at work.

There has even been mildly good news from the US labour market, one of the world's bigger economic weak-spots.

"It shields them a little bit and softens the blow, " said Francine Blau, a labour market economist at Cornell University.

Second, Italy's two-tier labour market, which impairs Italian productivity, must be reformed.

Mr Rajoy says unemployment will be his first priority, and he is likely to take up Mr Zapatero's unfinished work on labour-market reform.

In football, Britain's main sport, some Luddites think the open labour market is to blame for the lack of local talent.

So far, the labour market has held up much better than in late 2008 when 20m migrant workers lost their jobs.

We may preach the virtues of labour market flexibility to governments and companies, but are rather wary in applying it to ourselves.

The previous SPD-Green coalition sought to reduce joblessness by trimming unemployment benefits and deregulating the labour market.

It is also likely that the 9. 5 per cent rate understates the extent to which labour market conditions are deteriorating.

The question is: will the labour market rebound as robustly as it has in the past?

We take the theory of Marxist feminists to view whether female can promote her family status by entering labour market.

With the labour market so strong, and inflation still uncomfortably high, the central bankers were sensible to sound hawkish this week.

It should be noted once again that rapid labour market recoveries are associated with periods of rapid, above-trend growth.

Countries with the worst social outcomes (Greece, Italy and Portugal) all have restrictive product and labour market laws.

If wages continued to rise at this pace, it would mark a hairpin turn in China's labour market.

These include reducing government meddling in the economy, labour-market reform and improving the infrastructure.

And for a brief moment in the spring, the labour market actually showed signs of life.

It has brought the prices of materials and energy down sharply and slackened the labour market.

This partly reflected Europe's labour-market reforms, which brought more low-skilled workers into the workforce.

A big mistake was the failure to address the labour market directly, perhaps by temporarily slashing payroll taxation.

These discouraged workers represent a reservoir of labour-market slack that will dry up only with strong economic growth.

YESTERDAY the European Commission ruled that Spain could close its labour market to Romanian immigrants until the end of 2012.

Output will therefore continue to rise in the quarters ahead, as companies restock, returning the labour market to positive growth.

The AFL-CIO and Change to Win want a new commission to align immigration more closely with the needs of the labour market.

But Egypt's university system is not good at preparing its students for competing in the modern labour market.

As younger people enter the labour market they will demand a very different workplace, says Don Tapscott, another management guru.

Enacting policies aimed at eliminating age discrimination in the labour market and promoting a flexible retirement age.

The OECD advised the country to seize the "golden opportunity" for labour-market reform and fiscal discipline to sustain economic momentum.

Like other European countries, Germany hasloosened the periphery of its labour market but not the core.

The US labour market used to be whizzy.

They also have to promote and train women when the labour market does not supply enough.

That concern aside, this budget provides a needed lift to the labour market at an acceptable cost to the short-term budget picture.

"If a rebound in the manufacturing labour market can be maintained, this should aid with sustaining the broader recovery, " Hensley said.

Consumers' troubles are mounting as the boost from fiscal stimulus fades and the labour market worsens.

But this does not affect his value in the labour market at all.

Behind his bluster at the ECB he is pushing supply-side reforms, including a loosening of the gummed-up French labour market.

Despite having few immigrants, Japan is also showing the strains of a dual labour market.

If America's labour market is less efficient, the country's "structural" or "natural" rate of unemployment will be higher.

Maintain awareness in local labour market assessing salary levels and monitor comparisons of salary levels.

"The labour market is likely to deteriorate, but the impact of the housing slump should fade as 2007 progresses" , he argues.

Severe recessions typically produce strong labour-market recoveries.

Main contribution of He Keman has a choice bias and ego choice, continuously evaluation of project of model, active labour market.

In a similar way, removing labour market inequality also helps social mobility.

Allowing Cuban players to join the same global labour market as their peers elsewhere would de-politicise such departures.

In many eurozone economies, the lack of labour market reform will lead to higher trend levels of unemployment, constraining fiscal revenues.

In particular, given the labour market situation, wage developments should remain moderate.

Looser labour-market regulations made setting up a business easier.

A more flexible labour market and the retirement of well-paid baby-boomers have pushed down average wages.

So while this is, on the whole, a positive report, it is not a report that significantly changes the image of the American labour market.

In particular, the Beige Book noted that labour market conditions remained soft, with wage pressures subdued.

One of the main levellers has been the labour market.

The Conservatives came to office with a bold plan to reshape Britain's labour market.

Opponents also include doctors worried about private firms muscling into hospital care, and unions who are against labour-market reforms.

Business surveys have suggested a more robust upturn and the labour market has been more resilient than expected.

Margaret Thatcher's union- bashing in the 1980s had resulted in a more flexible labour market.

China's tightening labour market means it will have to live with significantly higher normal inflation than in the past decade.

The downbeat mood was compounded by new labour-market figures, which abruptly ended a surprisingly rosy period.

Labour market reform reduced severance payments and cut overtime remuneration.

Second, he sided with the trade unions to block demands from business leaders to reform Spain's two-tier labour market.

Generous severance arrangements discourage firms from hiring workers and have created a two-tier labour market and mass unemployment.

But monetary and fiscal policies or labour market regulation are at the core of democratic politics.

Improving labour market conditions would also continue to support domestic demand.

Like it or not they are a part of America's labour market.

The same is true of labour-market developments: even once the recession ends, unemployment continues to rise.

And finally there is the long-run problem of Spain's labour market, where one in five workers are officially out of a job.

But it also appears that investors are looking at labour market data.

A good economy will tighten the labour market and push updates, further boosting consumption.

Generous benefits distort the labour market and may encourage feckless behaviour.

The change of course signalled by the government's modest labour-market reform in June will surely have to betaken further.

There is a huge gap between what slaves would have earned in a free labour market and what in fact they were forced to accept.

Legal changes in the Asian labour market also make attracting and retaining staff more difficult, he warned.

Sittwe's Hindus also say they are locked out of the labour market.

Forced to confront the ugly reality of its labour market, it is trying a mixture of policies.

The region is burdened with low rates of participation in the labour market, especially among older people.

Even in good times youngsters struggle to get a foothold in the labour market.

Atwo-tier labour market provides flexibility, but on the back of an underclass of temporary workers.

Even this specialised slice of the labour market is feeling the effects of the downturn.

It is based on some labour market reforms in the last couple of years and a long period of wage moderation.

Women's campaign groups hope such strains will put pressure for labour market reforms that benefit women.

Its labour market is much more flexible than in the late 1980s, when most workers were in the state sector.

Yet the critics of the MBA have largely ignored these important labour market roles.

The sceptics may be wrong to dismiss Germany's labour market as crippled by rigidity.

A good economy will tighten the labour market and push up wages, further boosting consumption.

In some countries a rigging of the labour market in favour of incumbents and against the young makes what new jobs there are inaccessible.

Meanwhile, revisions to previous months' data indicated a better labour market performance than was previously believed.

Mr Gordon's judgment on the American labour market is one-sided.

The sector is still some 2. 2m jobs below its pre-recession peak, and new hiring there would help a dismal labour market.

The US labour market is faltering again, with new unemployment claims rising last week to their highest level in eight months.

The labour market picture becomes foggier still when one turns to the household survey data.

A labour-market reform introduced by the Liberals was partly repealed by Labor.

America's present labour market policies cannot deal with this.

Such laws can introduce unnecessary restrictions to the labour market.

The overall labour market is tight, wages are up and petrol prices have fallen.

Casino executives say that they are simply doing their best to service explosive growth in a tightly regulated labour market.

Earlier this year the McKinsey Global Institute, a think-tank, studied Sweden's labour market.

and returns to education depend partly on a country's labour-market structures.

Roughly 14m Indians are now being added to the labour market each year, and that number is rising.

Now the second-biggest worry is the labour market. Top of the list, however, is infrastructure.

The absence of price and wage pressures points to plenty of slack in the labour market.

As joblessness soars, benefits claimants will be nudged into the labour market.

Mental illness has taken over from unemployment as our biggest labour market problem.

Manager market is an important part of labour market.

We also find that health deteriorates with employment and labour market history.

1995 was the start of hard-core labour market restructuring.

Unions have threatened a general strike over planned labour market reforms.

China is also experiencing shortages in the labour market as companies struggle to recruit skilled staff.

Mr Sarkozy wants to loosen the labour market to encourage job creation, but negotiations over how to do this are still in progress.

Moreover, ill devised labour market policies tend to trap labour in lagging regions.

For labour market debutants just leaving school and college, the situation is challenging.

Yet it could not muster the strength to finish Mr Schr? der's job of labour market reform and fixing social security.

One way to describe Germany's changing labour market would be as a railway train with two classes (and 36. 5m people) on board.

Yet others used labour-market or financial-sector reform to boost domestic demand.

Germany's labour market is already facing skill shortages, which will intensify from 2010 when the postwar baby boomers enter retirement.

Bit by bit, a large mass of American workers is losing touch with the labour market.

As the value of brute force falls opportunities in the labour market for women grow.

All the same, there are worries that student visas are used as an easy way into Britain's labour market.

Rising inequality in almost all countries is being driven by trends in the labour market.

By improving skills, keeping people in the labour market and encouraging those outside it to enter again.

Strains are already showing in its labour market .

But even with this extra support, labour-market portents still look grim.

the uk labour market is europes most flexible and employment law is clear , simple and user - friendly for businesses.

The first-class carriages represent the traditional labour market.

Franç ois Fillon, his prime minister, has just added two extra items to the labour-market negotiations.

The Nordic model is also characterised by strong ties between welfare and labour-market policy.

Unfortunately, the weak labour market will continue to keep wage levels in check.

Perhaps the best news for housing has come from the labour market.

That message is supported by figures in the latest official report on the labour market, published on September 15th.

They have reduced friction in the labour market by allowing employers and prospective employees to connect more easily than ever before.

Inflationary pressures could also come from the labour market.

Second, average wages are still declining, in spite of record corporate profits and, until recently, a tightening labour market.

Only one other country, Austria, still keeps its labour market closed to the 2004 entrants.

This will make our labour market less flexible, raising the costs of doing business and making youth unemployment an even bigger problem.

The writers examined three labour market surveys, two US and one Canadian.

Above all, the labour market is heavily regulated.

Most hopeful is the prospect for reform of the labour market.

Most troubling of all is the continued failure of economic growth to benefit the labour market.

The prize for the dodgiest figures goes to the labour market.

The labour market is also tightening, forcing firms to pay higher wages.

All these rules work against the young women graduates to the labour market.

The labour market has segregated into one for mums and one for serious players.