Across all countries — there were obviously differences among nations — the study found that every 10percentt gain in productivity resulted in a 2percentt gain in employment spread over four years.
San Francisco has a diversified service economy, with employment spread across a wide range of professional services, including financial services, tourism, and (increasingly) high technology.
Copied over from the last government's Flexible New Deal, one of the central ideas of Iain Duncan Smith's Work Programme is "mandatory work activity": up to 30 weekly hours of faux-employment spread over 28 days, during which people have to do work "of benefit to the community" in return for their jobseeker's allowance of £67.50 a week.
In a down economy, thoughts of self-employment spread like wild-fire.
Katerina Linos's first book, The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion (Oxford University Press, 2013), examines how health, family, and employment laws spread across countries.
The Harvard Law School Library staff invites you to attend a book talk and panel discussion in celebration of Visiting Professor Katerina Linos' recently published book, The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries.
Joe Wilson (R-S.C). and Steve King (R-Iowa) last week would amend the National Labor Relations Act and Railway Labor Act, to prohibit workers and their elected bargaining representatives from negotiating contracts to protect and improve their wages and conditions of employment and spread the cost of that representation among all of the workers that reap the benefits.
The more the July unemployment report shows that "the breadth of weakness in the employment market has spread outside the manufacturing sector," Mr. Youngdahl said, "the greater the danger that consumers lose confidence and lose their propensity to spend".
It will spread employment opportunities from Cardiff and beyond.
Raul Castro has presided over a series of measures of economic opening, including reduction of state employment and the spread of private businesses, but these have moved slowly and have had a number of difficulties, frustrating many Cubans.
In a speech before a 1934 conference of the code authority members, attended by President Roosevelt, Flanders opposed a proposal by the Roosevelt administration to require that businesses cut worker hours by 10 percent and raise wages by 10 percent in order to spread employment more widely.
