Quotes About Employment

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

If defectors say they had high-level connections in Pyongyang or came from an esteemed institution in the North, they can gain better employment in the South, where life can be very difficult for North Koreans.

I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.

Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor-intensive, process-oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early-stage developing countries to enter the global economy.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.

In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.

We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.

Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market.

I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.

Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.

If you lose your job because there has been an influx of labour from another country, that is a legitimate cause for concern.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.

What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.