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This 12-page paper examines employment flexibility on a macroeconomic and microeconomic level. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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they didnt care how employment was carried out. Someone would work the farm, sell crops, get money, pay taxes. Or the cobbler would fix shoes, get money - and pay
taxes. But all of this changed during the industrial age, when mass employment became the norm, and became the engine driving production.
To keep a smooth-running economy, government, at times, have felt obligated to step in every so often to goose the employment side of economic functions. But has government been successful
in this endeavor? And what about the micro level? How have employers done in terms of wages, job flexibility and keeping people employed?
According to Thomas Palley (2007), the American economy during the past 30 years has seen an increasing disconnect between wages and productivity growth. What this means in simple English
is that, while the economy continues to grow (or at least did, in 2007), ordinary Americans arent seeing the benefit of that growth (Palley, 2007). The result is an increase
in income inequality (Palley, 2007). That there is a disconnect between wages and productivity (and ensuing wealth) there isnt any doubt. What
is creating a schism, however, is what to do about it. One side suggests that while the economic structure in and of itself is sound, workers could benefit from a
form of enlightened social policies, such as income supports, tax credits, wage insurance and educational assistance (Palley, 2007). Another position suggests
that the economy isnt sound at all, that its flawed, and the only way to bring wages and productivity in line is to address the underlying flaws, rather than providing
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