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A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy
(2008)
  • Timothy J. Bartik, , Editor
  • Susan N. Houseman, , Editor
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.

Keywords
  • public employment policy,
  • public employment policies,
  • global economy,
  • global labor issues,
  • job skills,
  • occupational skills,
  • career skills,
  • low skill employment,
  • low skill jobs,
  • low skill work,
  • older workers
Publication Date
January 1, 2008
Publisher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
ISBN
978-0-88099-332-6 (cloth); 978-0-88099-331-9 (pbk)
Citation Information
Bartik, Timothy J., and Susan N. Houseman, eds. 2008. A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.