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A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy

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Timothy J. Bartik and Susan N. Houseman, Editors
2008
Published by: W.E. Upjohn Institute
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"Timothy Bartik and Susan Houseman have assembled a first-rate team of economists to assess the problems of struggling workers. They offer cogent analyses of America's workplace problems. More important, they provide a timely set of prescriptions to address those problems. Many writers wring their hands at the challenges facing workers who are at the bottom of the pay ladder. The authors of this volume focus on the more difficult task of crafting humane but tough-minded solutions to the problem of shrinking wages." –Gary Burtless, The Brookings Institution

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. v-vi

Contents

pp. vii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix

1- Introduction and Overview

pp. 1-16

2 - Are Skills the Problem: Reforming the Education and Training System in the United States

pp. 17-80

3 - Revising Employers’ Role in Sponsoring and Financing Health Insurance and Medical Care

pp. 81-118

4 -Trade and Immigration: Implications for the U.S. Labor Market

pp. 119-160

5 - Removing Barriers to Work for Older Americans

pp. 161-201

6 - Improving Job Quality: Policies Aimed at the Demand Side of the Low-Wage Labor Market

pp. 203-244

7 - Boosting the Earnings and Employment of Low-Skilled Workers in the United States: Making Work Pay and Removing Barriers to Employment and Social Mobility

pp. 245-304

The Authors

pp. 305-306

Index

pp. 307-325

About the Institute

pp. 327
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