CREATING EMPLOYMENT

This morning, the OECD published its latest Economic Outlook.

Despite the recovery there are still many risks around and one of the keys to maintaining the recovery is apparently employment.

But how can this be achieved? Here in the UK we are facing the potential of state employees flooding onto the jobs market where the government hopes the private sector will pick up the slack.

Yet nothing is that simple.

How can people become employed? Where is the room for further workers when downsizing has been the rationale in this so-called post-industrial age?

These are questions that can challenge the most erudite academic let alone policymakers but they are questions that, according to the OECD, must be addressed for all our sakes.