On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Hinrich Kuhls wrote: > In the last decade, the most important structural change has been the > shift away from regular employment towards precarious employment. > > This shift is not reflected in the different figures of unemployment > and employment/population ratio - just as Spence ignores this > structural change when he states: "In Germany, the post-2000 reforms > that reset the economy's productivity, flexibility, and > competitiveness have proved crucial to the country's current economic > strength and resilience." > > Structure of employees in Germany 2010 > > Total wage earners 100.0 > Public servants (incl. armed forces) 5.0 > regular employment 61.1 > precarious employment 34.0 > > I assume that the respective figures show a similar picture for the > society of the United States, now even more detoriated since "Selling > women short" was written.
Not sure about that. Part-time workers are about 19% of the total now, not all that much higher than from 1970-2000, when they were about 16-17% of the total. Temp workers account for a smaller share of total employment than they did in 2000, which was the tightest U.S. job market in a generation. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
