State employment officials forecast job growth in '09.
Byline: Ilene Aleshire The Register-Guard State officials are predicting a return to job growth in Oregon late this year and slightly stronger growth in 2009 - barring a more severe housing downturn or credit crisis than is expected. If either of those occurs, all bets...

Business takes a global guided tour; U.S. ambassador to OECD maps world growth in Boylston speech.
Byline: Elaine Thompson BOYLSTON - The rest of this year and into 2009, some of the world's leading economists predict strong economic growth in China and Brazil, a slowdown of economies in the U.S., Germany, Japan and the U.K. and a strong slowdown in France and Italy....

Oregon among top 10 states for best business tax climate.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Oregon and California share a border, but the neighboring states are miles apart when it comes to business taxes. Oregon again ranked ninth in the nation in the Tax Foundation's 2009 State Business Tax Climate Index. California inched past...

Entrex Launches 'Congressional District Economic and Employment Growth Funds' in Georgia, Michigan and Virginia.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Entrex, Inc. announced today its plans to launch a series of Congressional District Economic and Employment Growth Funds -- vehicles structured to allow locally-interested investors to funnel critical growth capital into a diverse basket of investments into local entrepreneurial companies. "We're building...

January Job Market Shows Strong Employment Growth.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to new numbers from the Leading Indicator of National Employment [LINE(TM)] report, there will be more job growth in January 2007 than in January 2006, and employers from both the manufacturing and the service sectors revealed no evidence of increasing wage inflation....

Manufacturing, retail are largest job providers, says govt report.
NEW DELHI: Manufacturing and retail sectors have emerged as the largest employers in the country even as the number of employed has increased between 1998-2005 compared to 1990-98, the latest economic census has revealed. The growth rate of employment was 2.78% in 1998-2005, considerably higher than the...

'Exports to halve in FY 2009'.
Byline: Sanjeev Sharma NEW DELHI: Merchandise, software and other services export growth will halve in fiscal 2009 due to the global slowdown led by a US recession with negative implications for employment growth, according to Goldman Sachs. While the Indian economy has sufficient internal ballast to withstand...

Financial Professionals Optimistic on Economic and Employment Growth in 2007.
Expect Positive Business Conditions, but Identify Energy Cost Volatility and Value of the U.S. Dollar as Potential Threats According to 2007 AFP Business Outlook Survey BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial professionals are cautiously optimistic about economic growth in 2007, according to a new survey conducted...

Examining the relationship between commuting patterns, employment growth and unemployment in the NSW Greater Metropolitan Region.
Introduction Analysis of regional labour markets in Australia reveals persistent disparities in rates of labour utilisation (Mitchell and Bill, 2005b). In particular, unemployment dispersion has not fallen despite the decline in the national unemployment rate since 1993. There is increasing evidence that regional labour market outcomes are...

Global slump to hit Indian job mkt.
NEW DELHI: Indian economy may be riding high but the global meltdown has had an effect on both employment and business outlook in our country . India's net employment outlook index dipped six points to touch 74 points this quarter. Moreover, there is a 9% fall in the business...