Does anyone have any thoughts on how labour markets will change in the future?
814047
Thanks to Mrs.Thatcher and now Tony, our manufacturing industry has been transferred to China and India, as a result our service sectors dominating our market place. Who knows what will happen if Honda, Nissan and Toyota decide to move their factories from  the UK  to a cheaper and more cost effective alternative in the eastern europe. I can only guess that recession will follow and this may even affect the service sector.In my view,at the present time the service sector is the dominant labour market in the UK.
51861
Hundreds of thousands of skilled americans looking for a new line of work.\nIn the 90's, if you said you were going into computers, they said "Hey, that's a hot market!". \nNot anymore. Those jobs are shipped to lower cost countries with english speaking skills.
450409
I don't think that marriage will be so important as it is nowadays, and even nowadays the importance has dwindled down. Less people are eager to get married, and less women want to have children. So, in the next 20-25 years I think that the birth rate will have significantly gone down, and so will the marriage rate. Maybe more dads will be staying home and taking care of the kids, while moms will be the ones bringing home the bread.
938578
Yes.  To the extent that it drives the cost of production up.  Those costs will be passed along to the customers if the marketplace allows it. \n\nOn the other hand, it will spawn new industries, products, and services.These will  provide jobs.
850380
UK closes door on Romanian migrants Add to Clippings ... A points system is due to be introduced in the UK from next year 2007 for migrants seeking work permits. The British government approved measures to curb immigration to the UK from Romania and Bulgaria after the two countries join the European Union in January.\n\nIreland has also made public its decision to shut out the two countries' migrants, Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheal Martin said.\n\nThe limiting measures will be in force during a "transitional period", John Reid, UK home secretary, announced. The controls will be reviewed annually.\n\nIn Ireland Bulgarians and Romanians' access to the labour market would be curbed for at least two years. The country will then review the restrictions right before the end of 2008. \n\nIn a written statement to the House of Commons, Reid said that while a limited number of unskilled workers will be taken on to carry out jobs like fruit-picking, the UK will not continue to operate an "open-door" policy regarding work
118012
None. All professions have been changed in some form or another by IT. Even monks. And candle makers... publishers..mine workers....etc. etc. However, the Amish might be another story.
316749
You are asking a loaded question. In the next ten years there will be 76,000,000 people retiring, that alone will shift much of life as we know it. Real estate may peter out as baby boomers sell their big homes for smaller ones. Stocks may not do so well with less people working. Commerce (GNP) will slow as there are less buying dollars. Foreign powers will gain strength, economic and political.
814420
There are a couple of issues here and you have hit one of them on the head.\n\nThe knock on effect is that having sourced the workers from overseas there will be no jobs for School leavers at all, so it's onto Uni or the dole. Note the recent policy change announcement to keep Kids in school till 18!\n\nThe other is that the domestic birth rate is still falling, I believe in part due to the requirement for a second income in order to afford a mortgage these days.
1015544
Below is a link to an article on employment which gives facts and figures which might help you:\n\nhttp://wikipedia.org/wiki/unemployment\n\nYou might also find further information about the implications of the 'welfare' system in the following link:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/welfare-trap\n\nHope this helps.
906711
1. Cost of living - housing and transport expenses are now prohibitive, many new couples will never be homeowners.\n2. Political consensus - with the rise of "New" Labour there is now little difference between the two major political parties at election time. \n3. Government ethics - the present government ignores public opinion (e.g. Iraq), it's just as sleazy as previous Conservative governments, and our Prime Minister comes across as untrustworthy and insincere.\n4. Economic base - our manufacturing industries were destroyed in the 1980s, and now our service sector is under attack (e.g. call centres transferred to India).\n5. Multicultural society - polarisation is happening, especially Muslim vs non-Muslim (as a result of 7 July 2005 bombs, veil/clothing issues, activists inside UK, events around the world)
1077038
Another worthwhile Idea Labour will rave on about 4 a few months, then abandon after they've ploughed Millions in2 it!\n\nIt's the IT system 4 Social Serivices, like I say millions will B spent on it & as is usual with this wishywashy bunch, they'll shelve it B4 it even gets started.
878640
Most people today have really no idea what the unions fought for and gained for working people both here in the US and in the UK where I am from origonally, we have a standard of living now that makes people think they really don't need to pay for protection from their employers, what they don't realise that in the last twenty years or so there seems to have been a shift in the balance where employers are now being able to get away more in terms of benefits and general treatment of workers, in the UK the unions were very strong right up until the early eighties, then Mrs Thatcher basically changed certain laws which virtually put a strangle hold on the unions makeing them less effective and changing peoples attitudes towards unions, people were then asking "why do we need unions, they can't do anything" so now you have a generation who don't know any better,  do not understand and as you say take for granted their current standard of living, admitidly in the seventies the unions, especially in the UK became so powerfull that the balance of power was firmly in their favor and resulted in many industries being damaged by this resulting in a total loss of confidence in British products at home and abroad.\nWe are now in a new industrial era both technologically and politically, western countries such as the US and UK have to be twice as efficient and inovative to be able to compete with the new developing countries like China and India, where people have nothing in terms of workers rights, and employers can just about do anything they like.\n\nBut I fully agree with your sentiments, explotation of workers back in those dark days of the early to mid part of the last century seem along way behind us, but could quite easily be back over a space of time that workers today would never even notice it happening, history informs us of the mistakes we make so we hopefully do not repeat the same things twice,  therefore the history of explotation on ordinary working people should be part of the education system.
978635
Whatever the market will bear.  Same as anything else, meaning whatever the market will bear for that particular service.\n\nI do not think that it is realistic for the janitor, who has not attended 7 years of post high school education (and possibly not finished high school) to expect to be anything but hard-working and barely making it.\n\nIf we do not continue to value our highly educated professions, monetarily, our economy will go down the drain, as well as our social consciousness.
274086
Starting from hi tech industries (communication, computers software etc) and then with low tech low paying jobs, there would be a shortage in workforce, which would eventually increase the costs then the consumer prices which also could result in US being less competitive in the world markets etc etc In other words I don't think I should go.
81072
Things will change and i think for good. Human beings will stop playing with nature.\n\nIn next 25 years the whole world come very close and there would not be any problems of race, cultures and terrorism as people will slowly realise that these things dont help a community to grow. \n\nScience will open new doors and we cant even think what all new things we'll see in next 25 years.
613738
The jobs you describe are mostly min wage jobs so nothing will change. Far as letting go of workers to hire other for less. I would think a company could not afford the law suits that would result from that
695400
There will be an increase in off plan property buying, along with the fraud that can go with it, overhyping of prices on everything, from tea to tower blocks. Huge traffic jams, the brits are experts at that, crime will increase due to the pure number of people of course, but the victims will most likely be the tourists. business will suffer, because no-one will be able to get to work due to the traffic jams and so on. Been a long time since the brits had any success at much on a large scale, lets face it, they are responsible for inventing cricket, football, rugby, tennis, and are crap at all of them! \nThe Spanish olympics in Barcelona went ok, was there when it happened, luckily they had a road infrastructure capable of handling it at the time, if you have tried driving around london in the past 10 years, you will understand the problems they face.\n\nIf you are in London, be good enough to turn the lights off when you leave.