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

Authors

Timothy J. Bartik , Editor, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchFollow
Susan N. Houseman , Editor, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchFollow

Upjohn Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6238-8181

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2657-8479

Publication Date

3-28-2008

DOI

10.17848/9781435641037

Abstract

Can the U.S. economy generate healthy growth of “good” jobs—jobs that will ensure a steady improvement in the standard of living for the middle class and that will offer a way out of poverty for low-income Americans? In this book, leading policy analysts examine the challenges facing current U.S. labor market policy and propose concrete steps to make American workers and employers more competitive in a global economy.

Files

Contents

1. Introduction and Overview / Timothy J. Bartik and Susan N. Houseman

2. Are Skills the Problem? Reforming the Education and Training System in the United States / Robert I. Lerman

3. Revising Employers’ Role in Sponsoring and Financing Health Insurance and Medical Care / Katherine Swartz

4. Trade and Immigration: Implications for the U.S. Labor Market / Lori G. Kletzer

5. Removing Barriers to Work for Older Americans / Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman

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

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 / Steven Raphael

Note

The outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the Upjohn Institute in Washington, D.C. in June 2007

ISBN

9780880993326 (cloth) ; 9780880993319 (pbk.) ; 9781435641037 (ebook)

Subject Areas

EDUCATION; LABOR MARKET ISSUES; INTERNATIONAL ISSUES; UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS