Brazil's community banks now have the government's support, mostly through the National Secretariat of Solidarity Economy (Senaes) in the Labour and Employment Ministry.
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Lawmakers are studying pension reform to reduce the future burden of state payments, and labour reforms to cut employment costs.
The report makes a strong case for broadband as a driver of economic growth and new jobs, citing country case studies and reports by leading consultancies that point to increased employment opportunities, higher labour productivity and a strong stimulus to GDP.
We need changes in order to create greater private-sector demand for labour, which will boost wages and employment.
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There are several factors that will affect the labour market in 2013 and no doubt the employment sector will undergo various changes, including further redundancies, a softening mining sector, employee expectations shifting, the retirement of Boomers, Gen X moving into senior management roles and Gen Y influencing the workplace.
For men aged 50-64, labour supply is short by 152, 000 and employment by 64, 000.
And Mr Brown said Labour aimed at full employment, extending the New Deal for young people to other vulnerable groups in order to create one million more jobs.
The best way to do that would be to focus on further reforms to the labour market, and in particular to reduce the lavish employment protection granted to regular workers, which is one of the reasons why firms hire non-regular workers instead.
Ian Murray MP, Labour's shadow minister for employment relations, consumer and postal affairs, welcomed the announced rise to the minimum wage.
The merging of the Departments of Education and Employment under the last government has given Labour a platform for an integrated education and training framework.
We have got to do everything we can to preserve employment and as I say, this Labour Party is going to face up to those difficult choices we have to make.
On October 19th he appalled some colleagues by praising permanent employment contracts and saying he did not prize labour mobility or flexibility.
Higher vocational education is a new post-secondary education form which leads directly to employment and corresponds to the needs of the labour market.
"These are spectacular numbers, better than the GDP and employment reports suggested, and confirm that the labour market is not at the moment the source of anything that could be plausibly described as inflationary pressure, " said Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics.
But the Marks and Spencer affair has given ammunition to those who want uniformity in labour protection and see Britain as an unhealthy bastion of American-style employment practices.
Employment legislation has become more and more onerous as Labour has implemented new regulations such as the working time directive (from Europe), and new rights for consultation through works councils (again from Europe).
For example, in Mauritius - southern Africa's "little tiger" which has full employment and where women's entry into the labour force has played a crucial role in economic growth - men are the source of 92 % of the economic news.
Labour former minister David Lammy warned of the long-term impact Tory social and employment policies could have.
However, the report's authors said the labour market recovery had lost some momentum, with only weak rises in employment and pay rates.
The low-income labour market remains tight, as many factories and companies are running at 20% below ideal employment numbers.
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The consequential effects on house prices and employment make this the Newcastle seat which has seemed least firmly tied to Labour.
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The Scottish government said the latest report builds on last week's labour market statistics, which showed that the employment rate in Scotland has continued to climb and remains higher than the UK rate.
And since employment in the valley is rising roughly twice as quickly as the local labour force, ever more workers have to commute in from outside.
The labour market statistics also showed employment in Scotland fell by 24, 000 over the quarter, and increased by 20, 000 over the year to stand at 2, 474, 000.
The Scottish government said the statistics showed that the Scottish labour market continued to outperform the UK as a whole, with lower unemployment, higher employment and lower economic inactivity rates.
It examines the role of eight labour-market rigidities such as the length and generosity of unemployment benefits, the degree of employment protection, the payroll-tax burden and the centralisation of wage bargaining.
Alan Krueger, a Princeton University labour economist now at the Treasury Department, has two theories for the divergence in employment between large and small firms: one is that large firms have a lot of fixed costs invested in the training of their employees, and are more reluctant to lay them off.
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