Download or read book Subsidising Jobs written by Richard Breen and published by Dublin : Economic and Social Research Institute. This book was released on 1989 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jobs for the Poor written by Timothy J. Bartik and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-06-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as the United States enjoys a booming economy and historically low levels of unemployment, millions of Americans remain out of work or underemployed, and joblessness continues to plague many urban communities, racial minorities, and people with little education. In Jobs for the Poor, Timothy Bartik calls for a dramatic shift in the way the United States confronts this problem. Today, most efforts to address this problem focus on ways to make workers more employable, such as job training and welfare reform. But Bartik argues that the United States should put more emphasis on ways to increase the interest of employers in creating jobs for the poor—or the labor demand side of the labor market. Bartik's bases his case for labor demand policies on a comprehensive review of the low-wage labor market. He examines the effectiveness of government interventions in the labor market, such as Welfare Reform, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Welfare-to-Work programs, and asks if having a job makes a person more employable. Bartik finds that public service employment and targeted employer wage subsidies can increase employment among the poor. In turn, job experience significantly increases the poor's long-run earnings by enhancing their skills and reputation with employers. And labor demand policies can avoid causing inflation or displacing other workers by targeting high-unemployment labor markets and persons who would otherwise be unemployed. Bartik concludes by proposing a large-scale labor demand program. One component of the program would give a tax credit to employers in areas of high unemployment. To provide disadvantaged workers with more targeted help, Bartik also recommends offering short-term subsidies to employers—particularly small businesses and nonprofit organizations—that hire people who otherwise would be unlikely to find jobs. With experience from subsidized jobs, the new workers should find it easier to obtain future year-round employment. Although these efforts would not catapult poor families into the middle class overnight, Bartik offers a powerful argument that having a full-time worker in every household would help improve the lives of millions. Jobs for the Poor makes a compelling case that full employment can be achieved if the country has the political will and adopts policies that address both sides of the labor market. Copublished with the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Economic Research
Download or read book Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers written by Robert H. Haveman and published by Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution. This book was released on 1982 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference papers examining economic implications of employment subsidies to encourage employment creation for the socially disadvantaged in the private sector in the USA - covers methodology, the inflation- unemployment trade-off, long term effects, economic models, management attitude, administrative aspects, etc., and makes comparisons with Western Europe. Graphs and tables. List of participants. Conference held in Washington 1980 Apr 3 and 4.
Download or read book The Use of Tax Subsidies for Employment written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment Subsidies and Employment Tax Credits written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Generating Jobs written by Richard B. Freeman and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1998-02-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American economy is in danger of leaving its low-skilled workers behind. In the last two decades, the wages and employment levels of the least educated and experienced workers have fallen disastrously. Where willing workers once found ready employment at reasonable wages, our computerized, service-oriented economy demands workers who can read and write, master technology, deal with customers, and much else. Improved education and training will alleviate this problem in the long run, but educating the new workforce will take a substantial national investment over many years. In the meantime, we face increasingly acute questions about how to include low-skill workers in today's economy. Generating Jobs takes a hard look at these questions, and asks whether anything can be done to improve the lot of low-skilled workers by intervening in the labor market on their behalf. These micro demand-side policies seek to improve wages and employment levels—either by lowering the costs of hiring low-skilled workers through employer subsidies, or by raising wage levels, benefit levels, or hours of employment, or by providing employment via government jobs. Although these policies are not currently popular in the U.S., they have long been used in many countries. Generating Jobs provides a clear-eyed assessment of this history, and asks if any of these policies might be applicable to the current problems of low-skilled workers in the United States. The results are surprising. Several recently touted panaceas turn out to be costly and ineffective in the American labor market. Enterprise zones, for instance, are an expensive way of moving jobs into areas of high unemployment, costing as much as $60,000 per job. Similarly, job-sharing, which has had uneven success in Europe, turns out to be ill-suited to conditions in the U.S., where wages are relatively low and workers need to work long hours to maintain income. On the other hand, a number of older, less flashy policies turn out to have real, if modest, benefits. Wage subsidies have increased employment among qualifying workers, and public employment policies can increase the number of workers from targeted groups working during the program. While acknowledging that many solutions are counterproductive, this definitive review of active labor market policies shows that many programs can offer real help. More than any rhetoric, Generating Jobs is the best guide to future action and a serious response to those who claim that nothing can be done.
Download or read book Public Employment and Wage Subsidies written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subsidizing Job Creation in the Great Recession written by Sagiri Kitao and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the effects of various labor market policies on job creation, job destruction, and employment. The equilibrium model is calibrated to capture labor market conditions at the end of 2009, including the unemployment, inflow, and outflow rates by workers of different educational attainment. The authors consider the equilibrium effects of a hiring subsidy, a payroll tax reduction, and an employment subsidy. They find that a hiring subsidy and a payroll tax deduction, as in the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, can stimulate job creation in the short term, but can cause a higher equilibrium unemployment rate in the long term. Employment subsidies succeed in lowering the unemploy. rate permanently, but the policy entails high fiscal costs. Illus.
Download or read book Subsidized Jobs written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Middle Class Task Force has always been careful to include those who aspire to rise into the middle class as an important target of our efforts. Upward mobility for families who work hard and play by the rules is a fundamental American value, and part of our mandate is to promote such mobility for less-advantaged families. Of course, how these families fare is in large part dependent on the jobs available to their working members. In this case, the fact that unemployment has been particularly elevated for low-income households means that as usual, the recent recession has been hardest on the least well off. One program from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that has been particularly effective at reaching these workers is the subsidized jobs program included in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. This program is helping tens of thousands of low-income families get back to work in what, even with recent gains, remains a tough job market. It is helping employers by offsetting the costs of hiring. And it is helping communities by putting more money in the pockets of folks who will spend their paychecks, creating ripple or multiplier effects leading to more economic activity and jobs. In the interest of building on the nascent jobs recovery in progress, extending this program, which sunsets at the end of this September, is an Obama Administration priority. As more states stand up these efficient programs to the benefit of workers, employers, and their communities, we encourage Congress to act quickly and take advantage of the positive momentum behind this subsidized jobs program."--Introduction.
Download or read book Targeted Employment Subsidies written by John Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wage Subsidies and Jobs for the Disadvantaged written by Joseph W. Arwady and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Work Alternative written by Demetra S. Nightingale and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommends a redefined social contract that takes into account realities of the job market and the transitory sense of the assistance.
Download or read book Creating Jobs written by John Logan Palmer and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of conference papers examining the effects of public service employment programmes and state aid for wages subsidies for the private sector on employment creation policies in the USA - discusses consequences of employment policies to combat inflation and unemployment (incl. Structural unemployment) and considers work relief programmes of the economic recession of the 1930's, the social employment programme of the Netherlands and the economic efficiency of programmes in general, etc. Graphs and statistical tables. Conference held in Washington 1977 April 7 and 8.
Download or read book Individual Firm Response to Marginal Employment Subsidies written by Mark Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Does the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit Create Jobs at Subsidized Firms written by John Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisconsin Job Opportunity Business Subsidy Program WisJOBS written by Wisconsin Job Opportunity Business Subsidy Program and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jobs and Community Action written by Gary Craig and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
