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Building public services for a more resilient future

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When COVID-19 came last year, many countries scrambled to cope with the disruption to vital public services and the closure of schools and universities. However, a few countries such as Norway and Estonia, have managed to keep everything in place, thanks to their decade-long development in digital infrastructure. Today, Estonia has built one of the world’s most advanced digital societies.
Every two years, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs publishes the E-government rankings.  » Read more about: Building public services for a more resilient future  »

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Equal Pay – Let’s not fall into the gender pay trap…

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For some, Equal Pay Day marks the annual ‘free labor of women’, for others it is an ‘ideologically motivated lie’ – the truth is even more complicated. This article highlights the uselessness of many of the statistics surrounding ‘equal pay’ and explains why a focus on gender falls short when it comes to pay equity. Instead, we would do well to place more emphasis on actual, individual performance.
Is a focus on gender even justified?
First of all,  » Read more about: Equal Pay – Let’s not fall into the gender pay trap…  »

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Global Labor Market News: Despite strong vacancy recovery, long-term unemployment remains

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A new analysis of online job postings from the UK confirms that there has been a strong recovery of job vacancy rates this summer, well above the same period two years ago. The data, coming from one of the largest online job search engines in the UK shows:

New vacancies are mainly in IT, construction, trades or warehousing and logistics with 330,000 in total, nearly one-third of all vacancies.
The numbers of vacancies in healthcare,  » Read more about: Global Labor Market News: Despite strong vacancy recovery, long-term unemployment remains  »

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Global Labor Market News: Will China get old before it gets rich?

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In May 2021, China announced that couples are allowed to have up to 3 children, due to a consecutive four-year decline in the population. In 2016, China abolished its one-child policy, replacing it with a two-child limit, which had little impact on its fertility rate. The Chinese government hopes to salvage the situation by further relaxation of birth control. However, the coming of the so-called “three-child policy” is responded to by most with just a shrug.  » Read more about: Global Labor Market News: Will China get old before it gets rich?  »

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Not entirely a “she-cession” but globally women are the key to economic recovery

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Advanced economies in Europe and North America are finally emerging after a year of COVID-19 lockdowns largely due to mass vaccinations, while populations in Africa and hard-hit South Asia and Latin America grapple with both vaccine access and labor informality. In a year mired by uncertainty, the economic and societal shocks of the pandemic impacted women and men differently—across the world, women were more likely to lose jobs, cut back paid hours worked, and became the default childcare providers in households.  » Read more about: Not entirely a “she-cession” but globally women are the key to economic recovery  »

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