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New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Automobiles Collectors Drivers Employment Figures Havoc New New Technologies Obsolete Rendering Technologies Toll

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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Creates Effects Employment Entitlement Erratic Focus Huge Indictment Pen Results Social Spending State Statistical Stroke Tests Wealth Welfare Welfare State Yield

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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Accounts Allowing Companies Creativity Employment Facebook Google Imagination Income Jobs Like May National Offer Only Percent Percentage Requiring Silicon Silicon Valley Smaller Valley Whole

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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Better Economists Employment Fail Inclusion Jobs Least Like Minimum Minimum Wage Raise Raising See Seems Very Wage Workers

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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Decades Driven Employment Growth Mainly Outstanding Problems Research Theory

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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Back Easy Economists Employment Felt Increase Many Money Reliable Stretching Way 1960S 1930S

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It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Acceptance Bring Employment Gradually Higher Inflation Learned Rate Really Somewhat Would

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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Began Cause Continent Deep Devastating Down Employment Europe Fall Growth Holds Inclusion Job Large Late Losses Main Productivity Rates Satisfaction Struck Wage Wages 1990S

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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Adds Aggregate Any Because Consumer Demand Disciples Employment Focus Household Increase Raising Say They Say View Wealth Who

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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Bent Classical Decline Economists Employment Labour Large Large Part Lay Output Part Supply Thus

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