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Laurence Shatkin: Well, I'm not a fortune teller, and nobody's job is 100% secure, but I identified these based on information from the U.S. Department of Labor. I developed a pool of 180 occupations that are resistant to economic downturn and then sorted them according to their economic rewards - income, job openings and job growth. These are the best of the recession-proof jobs...
...years the Chinese people have been willing to put up with an authoritarian government so long as it generated jobs and opportunities. Now, with the economy slowing, growth needs to be maintained, goes conventional wisdom, at a minimum of about 8% - in part to forestall the labor unrest that Beijing fears could spread and turn into protests against the ruling Communist Party. Despite its domestic agenda, the stimulus package has been warmly welcomed overseas, too. The day after it was revealed, share prices from Hong Kong to London surged. And by again taking action along with the rest...
...recent years, the Philippines has faced an unprecedented exodus. Though millions of men have come and gone to work overseas over the past century, the world's ever-increasing demand for "female labor" like caregiving and domestic service has swung open the exit door for the nation's women. Today, about 8.7 million Filipinos - some 10% of the population - are registered with the government as overseas workers. Thousands of workers leave the country every day, and half of the new hires are women, flying off to earn salaries that are propping up the country. Last year alone, overseas workers sent...
...Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that millions of migrants were at risk of losing their jobs in the wake of the financial crisis - grim news for both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state labor contracts that send workers abroad and openly encourages private-sector recruitment for overseas jobs. Evidence of its success, in the form of advertisements for English courses, technical schools and recruitment centers, is plastered across buildings and telephone poles throughout Manila. "It's a global phenomenon...
...Others say the best way to help families is to dam the flood of migration by giving workers a reason to stay home. In October, officials said that nearly 10 million jobs had been created in the Philippines between 2004 and 2008. But activists and labor organizations argue that many of those were part-time or low-paying - hardly an enticement to keep Filipinos from seeking their fortunes overseas. "We want people to go abroad to work as a choice - not as something they have to do," says Cabral, head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development...