Employment mechanic

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Employment

Sectors: Employment will be recorded as a set of province modifiers, each being a sector. The sectors are:

• Subsistence: This represents subsistence farmers (lower strata), artisans & merchants (middle strata) and traditional landed nobility (upper strata). Tribesmen can only ever occupy subsitence type jobs. Reduced food consumption, very low output
• Industrial: This represents manufacturing or infrastructure focused jobs. Manual workers or for-export farmers (lower strata), foremen & technicians (middle strata) and factory owners (upper strata). High manufactured resource output
• Service: This represents skill-based work, less focused on technology. Servants, wait staff, cleaners (lower strata), office clerks, teachers, lawyers, doctors (middle strata) and bankers or business owners (upper strata). High abstract wealth output

Various factors are at play determining how sectors are created and filled.

• Industrialisation: At 0% industrialisation, every pop will create its own employment slot 1-to-1 in "subsistence".
• Farms: Farms will create (1 x industrialisation percentage) industrial jobs. More industrialised regions will create more industrial jobs from farms, which otherwise do not contribute. Farms are still useful in 0% industrialised areas for increasing food output, but do not offer extra jobs.
• Factories: Each factory building will create, at tech level 0, industrial employment slots for 1.2 pops. As the country's "automation" tech level increases, the output of each factory job will increase, but the employment slots created by each building will decrease by a small factor.
• Infrastructure: Each infrastructure building will create industrial employment slots for 0.5 pops
• Service buildings: Each service building creates a service employment slot for 1 pop.

A modifier across all factors will be the labour market. One unit of wealth is the subsistence needed by 1 pop per month. If there is 1 unit of wealth for every available job slot, there will therefore be no modifier. If there is more, the local area will be able to afford more salaries, and there will be more employment slots. If there is less than enough wealth, the employmet slot pool will be decreased.

• Industrial labour market: Upper strata pops will pool a quantity of their wealth to pay workers for industrial jobs in a province. This wealth includes not only the wealth currently owned by upper strata pops, but also any wealth from exports of industrial goods.
• Service labour market: Both upper and middle strata pops will pool their wealth. This wealth does not include the wealth from exports of industrial goods, but has the potential to be a larger pool as more pops can be involved in maintaining it.

Proletariat pops: Proletariat pops come from unemployment in provinces, when pops demote below lower strata. They can be given employment slots through workhouses or other forms of indentured labour, at a cost to public order and health. Demotions can be prevented by developing and maintaining social security policies, from primitive ones such as guilds, to modern ones like unemployment subidies.

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Farm buildings should not generate industrial jobs, but "commercial agriculture" jobs

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Subsistence jobs are very hard to tax. Income tax from subsistence jobs is nonexistent. Produce tax (i.e. goods levy) can be extracted, but is not very large. Poll tax can be extracted, but is very cumbersome.

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Now working differently with the building mechanics in mind... Each building implicitly employs one pop. This way we can get employment sectors straight from buildings without needing to worry about extra svalues or variables.

Need to think about how to deal with job eligibility with education and unemployment...