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Low-Skilled Immigration Is Needed To Overcome The Western Worker Crunch

The Horizons Tracker

While the current government is debating the introduction of a Canadian-style points system to encourage more immigration, the various proposals are still at the discussion stage. These medium- to low-skilled workers seldom have supporters, however, and it’s incredibly rare for immigration systems to be welcoming towards them.

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How Workplace Equality Can Drive The Economy (With A Little Help From AI)

The Horizons Tracker

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. GDP is attributable to these declining barriers in the labor market,” the authors explain. Even social norms can limit the ability for people to successfully enter the workforce.

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

Similarly, 42 percent of working mothers would look for higher pay, and 29 percent work seek additional training to boost their careers. The UN Women website states that by increasing female employment in OECD countries to match the levels presented by Sweden, GDP could be boosted by over $6 trillion.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. to revamp its innovation system.

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Morning Advantage: Why Business Can't Save America

Harvard Business Review

If we want to see more Americans gainfully employed — not in jobs, but with living-wage careers," he writes, we need to invest more in the nonprofit sector and in government programs like our educational system to advance science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outcomes. AFTER ROBOT-DRIVEN CARS, WHATS LEFT?

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business Review

If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve. They often arrive with a reputation for being able to turn around a school quickly, as they’ve done this many times before in their career. So they looked around for a different career and discovered teaching.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Or so he thought, until one interaction changed the trajectory of his career. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. In 2016, the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2 His life was set.