Many jobs but few qualified workers.
Byline: Raymund F. Antonio While many job opportunities await Filipino workers this year, unemployment in Metro Manila and elsewhere in the country remains high as schools continue to churn out more graduates who don't have the appropriate skills to meet the needs of industries. This...

Canada's global competitiveness challenge: trade performance versus total factor productivity measures.
I Introduction Canada's productive efficiency and competitiveness are said to have lagged during the past few years behind their "boom levels." This judgment is based on studies which claim that the country has been facing declining productivity, poor research and development (R&D) record, a growing trade deficit in...

Benchmarking performance.
Abstract An important challenge in the design of performance measurement, accountability, and incentive systems is the establishment of relevant benchmark levels of performance, also known as performance standards. We review information economics literature and draw simple lessons for the construction of performance standards. We demonstrate the relevance...

Improving public sector performance management: one step forward, two steps back?
Abstract This empirical study of the performance management system in the U.S. Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program identifies challenges and prospects for implementing performance management systems effectively in public agencies. The analyses of performance standard setting processes and relationships among standards and state performance levels demonstrate that...

As It Happened.
by John Button; Text, 1998, $34.95. JOHN BUTTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1983 to 1993, was a class act in national politics, and he was also one of a highly capable political generation of Labor Party leaders. This political autobiography is a timely reminder of the...

Making reward for performance a reality: federal agencies are introducing performance-based pay approaches using specific rewards practices to facilitate the transition to performance-based work--what we call "reward for performance.".
"Implementing a more market-based and performance-oriented pay system (in government) is both doable and desirable." --David M. Walker, U.S. Comptroller General Will performance-based pay replace the General Schedule (GS) and wage grade pay and personnel system in all federal agencies by 2010? Legislation now being...

GMA invites Swiss businessmen; Cites productive Filipino labor, best services President heaps praises on RP economic performance.
Byline: FIL C. SIONIL ZURICH, Switzerland (via PLDT) -- President Arroyo addressed yesterday the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and invited Swiss businessmen to invest in the Philippines. "The Philippines remains a competitive location for a wide range of manufacturing and high value-added services. We offer...

Principles for the performance management of public employment services.
Abstract In the field of public employment services (PES), performance can be measured primarily in terms of employment outcomes--such as the employment rate, unemployment rate and earnings--achieved by the clients of each local employment office or employment service provider. An increasing number of OECD countries now have...

Russian Labor Market in Transition: Trends, Specific Features, and State Policy.
Over the past decade the concept of labor relations in Russia has undergone radical changes--from the paradigm of universal full employment, which was an official tenet of the socialist period; through the idea of rational employment in the era of perestroika; and all the way to...

The impact of economic restructuring on female employment: labor policy and interactions between government and economy. (Human rights: unfinished business).
Work is, first and foremost, a social need, the human activity that permits social reproduction through the production of the material goods and services needed for human subsistence and development. In market economies, people without material goods engage in a variety of economic activities in exchange for a salary...