Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
How the Government Measures Unemployment
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Out of Work
Author: Richard K VedderPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814788335
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Argues the cause of unemployment may be the government itself Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
Manual of State Employment Security Legislation
Author: United States. Bureau of Employment SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Actively Seeking Work?
Author: Desmond KingPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226436225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Integrating archival and documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programmes, this work examines the reasons behind the lack of effective training and work programmes for the unemployed in Great Britain and the United States.
Flawed System/Flawed Self
Author: Ofer SharonePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022607367X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it’s above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. Across the developed world, the experience of unemployment has become frighteningly common—and so are the seemingly endless tactics that job seekers employ in their quest for new work. Flawed System/Flawed Self delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation. Through in-depth interviews and observations at job-search support organizations, Ofer Sharone reveals how different labor-market institutions give rise to job-search games like Israel’s résumé-based “spec games”—which are focused on presenting one’s skills to fit the job—and the “chemistry games” more common in the United States in which job seekers concentrate on presenting the person behind the résumé. By closely examining the specific day-to-day activities and strategies of searching for a job, Sharone develops a theory of the mechanisms that connect objective social structures and subjective experiences in this challenging environment and shows how these different structures can lead to very different experiences of unemployment.
Job Security in America
Author: Katharine G. AbrahamPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN:
Category : Job security
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
With the onset of the recession in 1990, job security has moved to the forefront of labor market concerns in the United States. During economic downturns, American employers rely heavily on layoffs to cut their work force, much more than do their counterparts in other industrialized nations. The hardships imposed by these layoffs have led many to ask whether U.S. workers can be offered more secure employment without burdening the companies that employ them. In this book, Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman address this question by comparing labor adjustment practices in the United States, where existing policies arguably encourage layoffs, with those in Germany, a country with much stronger job protection for workers. From their assessment of the German experience, the authors recommend new public policies that promote alternatives to layoffs and help reduce unemployment. Beginning with an overview of the labor markets in Germany and the United States, Abraham and Houseman emphasize the interaction of various government policies. Stronger job security in Germany has been accompanied by an unemployment insurance system that facilitates short-time work as a substitute for layoffs. In the United States, however, the unemployment insurance system has encouraged layoffs and discouraged the use of work-sharing schemes. The authors examine the effects of job security on the efficiency and equity of labor market adjustment and review trends in U.S. policy. Finally, the authors recommend reforms of the U.S. unemployment insurance system that include stronger experience rating and an expansion of short-time compensation program. They also point to the critical link between job security and the system of worker training in Germany and advocate policies that would encourage more training by U.S. companies.
CoreMacroeconomics
Author: Eric ChiangPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1464191298
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Unemployment Insurance in the United States
Author: Christopher J. O'LearyPublisher: W. E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Discusses the unemployment insurance system in which programmes are operated by each state within the minimum standards established by the federal government.
Labor Force Statistics Derived from the Current Population Survey
Author: Strategies to Combat Homelessness
Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211314588
Category : Homeless persons
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description