To some extent, the recoveries around the world may be less due to any government programs than they are to the fact companies overreacted, slashing everything they could — including employment, orders and inventories — when the outlook appeared darkest.
Every month managers in both manufacturing and private services are asked whether their firms' output, employment, orders and the like have expanded or contracted (compared with the previous month).
One female graduate whom Hong Fincher interviewed deliberately dropped out of employment in order make herself "less intimidating to suitors".
It seemed perfectly reasonable to him that he must find employment in order to buy time to paint.
"Others have argued the opposite: People were seeking employment in order to get access to health insurance, and they might stop working" once covered by law.
But never mind the lessons of history, or events unfolding across the Atlantic: Republicans are now fully committed to the doctrine that we must destroy employment in order to save it.
For example, it proposes that from 2008 the mandatory retirement age be raised from 60 to 65, and that the minimum number of years to be spent in employment in order to qualify for a full state pension be lifted from 35 to 40.
By not acting on the employment nondiscrimination order, Mr. Obama has newly angered a gay constituency that has been a source of campaign cash and that had been willing to overlook his failure so far to endorse same-sex marriage, given his actions on its other priorities, like repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy against openly gay service members.
Once eligible for SSP, individuals have 12 months to find employment in order to receive supplement payments.
This metric combines "absolute and percent change in employment" in order to avoid distortions from the use of either measure alone, they write.
