If firms are tempted by tax incentives, they may simply shift jobs from other low-income workers.
The best way to boost national economic prosperity is to make labour and product markets work more efficiently, speed up the shift of jobs from old industries to better-paying new ones, and improve education and training to prepare workers for tomorrow's jobs.
For example, those big Scottish financial firms which warned their employees during the 1992 election that devolution could mean a shift of jobs south of the border have been persuaded by Tony Blair's promise of a referendum to remain silent on devolution at this election.
We have worked to make sure that the training programs that are out there for folks who are having to shift from jobs that may not exist anymore so that they can get the training they need for the jobs that do exist, that those are improved and sharpened.
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Will the worlds best and brightest continue to take jobs at investment banks, or will the cyclical shift to startup jobs be the future?
Many of those residents will likely shift into other jobs as work becomes more plentiful, Kelly says.
The conventional wisdom is that a large-scale shift from manufacturing jobs to service industry jobs is inevitable.
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Because while I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.
Employment in rich countries will have to shift towards higher skilled jobs to maintain economic growth.
For others, those with commission-based income, hourly jobs that shift income or self-employment income, tracking recording your income is every bit as important as your spending.
Other buildings will be completed soon, and though there aren't many now under construction to follow them, Gordon Brown's determination to shift civil-service jobs out of London will dampen demand in the years ahead.
Sustained growth in income and jobs relies on a continuous shift of resources to higher-value industries.
National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.
Now American policy has to shift again if it wants to start creating new jobs.
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Even as the shift to computerized dialing systems famously wiped out the jobs of switchboard operators, it created enormous job growth in new types of jobs that often involved more skill and paid better.
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Jobs had two stated reasons for the shift.
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To be sure, there are potential opportunities in the development and implementation of energy-saving technologies in the next decade, including wind and solar energy, but it's doubtful that many jobs can be generated without a major shift in the economic climate here.
This shift alone will lead to the creation of 353 new jobs, all in Michigan.
It just added a second shift that increased its employment by about 1, 100 jobs, to bring it to that 2, 800.
The study from the Institute of Education shows a major shift since the 1980s, with shrinking numbers of unskilled jobs and now more than a quarter of the labour market being taken by graduate jobs.
Jobs which involved long periods of standing up, shift work and fatiguing work were also significantly linked with premature birth.
The amount of money the United States has left on the tourism table in the past decade should be enough to convince Congress that we need to shift course and entice rather than repel this huge source of jobs and revenue.
Right now he works the night shift at a supermarket, bagging groceries, and doing small maintenance jobs.
There is more good news: This shift in business produces the sorts of challenging, high-impact jobs you will love.
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As conversations across the nation shift from how to create economic growth to how to create more jobs, many are asking: what should be done?
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General Motors is following through on a previous promise to shift away from IT outsourcing, and to move thousands of tech jobs back inside the company.
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