Best quotes by Janet Yellen on Work

Checkout quotes by Janet Yellen on Work

• ‟ Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

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• ‟ Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.

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• ‟ While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

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• ‟ Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

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• ‟ Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

  - Janet Yellen