Finance & Development, March 2015

Download or read book Finance & Development, March 2015 written by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter discusses the impact of global recession on the working population and looks at the future of work in the global economy from a variety of angles. IMF economist Prakash Loungani leads off with an overview of the global jobs landscape and examines the reasons behind the slow recovery of jobs in the wake of the global financial crisis. The chapter also highlights an argument for a jobs- and wage-led global recovery, while IMF researchers probe the relationship between declining trade union membership and inequality.