The ILO ‘World of work report’ 2014. Investing in quality jobs pays

In countries that have made the greatest investment in quality jobs from the early 2000s, living standards (...) improved more than in developing and emerging economies that paid less attention to quality jobs.
(...) it is crucial to avoid a concentration of economic growth in a few export-oriented sectors with limited links to the rest of the economy.

Merijn Knibbe
http://rwer.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/the-ilo-world-of-work-report-2014-investing-in-quality-jobs-pays/

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_243962.pdf

http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/world-of-work/lang--en/index.htm

Increasing self-employment is, alas, not the answer

In the European Union, increasing the number ‘self-employed’ is often seen as a method to make labour markets more flexible and economies more resilient and competitive. This won’t work. And it didn’t work – high numbers of self-employed did not shield countries from the crisis.

Merijn Knibbe http://rwer.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/increasing-self-employment-is-alas-not-the-answer/

Getting Back to Full Employment

Getting Back to Full Employment

If high unemployment is one of the obstacles to more equitable growth, then the question is: how do we achieve full employment? There are four main ways. Each route faces substantial political opposition, both because of powerful interests that would be hurt by paying higher wages and because of popular prejudices that are persistently promoted in the media.

1. The Federal Reserve Board

2. Government Spending

3. The Trade Deficit

4. Sharing the Work

Dean Baker and  Jared Bernstein
http://rwer.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/full-employment-and-the-path-to-shared-prosperity-3-graphs/