Career evolution
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Employees in the US are being urged to consider their career goals, and are no longer encouraged to be loyal, while Europeans are being pushed toward part-time work due to lack of full-time jobs. Clinical depression has affected many Japanese businessmen. The US is seeing a large number of layoffs, despite long term economic growth, and male median wages are less than in the 1970s. Baby boomers are ageing, while mothers are rejoining the work force. Competition, the expansion of the service sector, and shorter lifecycles for products have hit job stability. Parents spend less time with their children, and inequality has increased.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000
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One true model?
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Some economists argue that globalization means that all economies will be forced to adopt the US model of capitalism, though there is disagreement as to whether this is a good thing. Convergence is not, however, inevitable, and divergence has occurred in areas such as collective bargaining and unionization levels. There are costs involved in changing systems, and less flexible economies are not necessarily less efficient, while they are nore egalitarian, according to economist, Richard Freeman.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000
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Leave it to me
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The British government aims to promote family friendly employment, but many women earn too little to be eligible for maternity benefit and there is not enough affordable child care.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000
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