A future of good jobs? [electronic resource] : America's challenge in the global economy / Timothy J. Bartik, Susan N. Houseman, editors.
Contributor(s): Bartik, Timothy J | Houseman, Susan N | W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008Description: ix, 327 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Labor market -- United States -- Congresses | Labor supply -- United States -- Congresses | Manpower policy -- United States -- Congresses | Industrial management -- United States -- Congresses | Occupational training -- United States -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.10973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view The outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the Upjohn Institute in Washington, D.C., in June 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and overview / Timothy J. Bartik and Susan N. Houseman -- Are skills the problem?: reforming the education and training system in the United States / Robert I. Lerman -- Revising employers' role in sponsoring and financing health insurance and medical care / Katherine Swartz -- Trade and immigration: implications for the U.S. labor market / Lori G. Kletzer -- Removing barriers to work for older Americans / Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman -- Improving job quality: policies aimed at the demand side of the low-wage labor market / Paul Osterman -- Boosting the earnings and employment of low-skilled workers in the United States: making work pay and removing barriers to employment and social mobility / Steven Raphael.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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