Alternatives To Unemployment And Underemployment
Title | Alternatives To Unemployment And Underemployment PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hopkins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 042968939X |
The creation of jobs is critical in Third World countries where growing populations face unemployment or inadequate employment. Many have put forth theories and suggestions that address this problem, but there has been insufficient empirical analysis of the effects of specific policies on employment growth. The author examines macroeconomic theories of labour market behavior and labour force definitions and concepts, assessing how productive they are in formulating employment strategies for Colombia. The implications of a range of alternative policies for generating jobs, their effectiveness in reducing unemployment, and possible programs for the future are analyzed.
Alternatives To Unemployment And Underemployment
Title | Alternatives To Unemployment And Underemployment PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hopkins |
Publisher | Westview Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1985-08-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813302003 |
How the Government Measures Unemployment
Title | How the Government Measures Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
Employment without Inflation
Title | Employment without Inflation PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Higgins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2018-01-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 135129234X |
The world economy has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades and theoretical structures inherited from the 1930s through the 1950s, while retaining large elements of truth, are inadequate to deal with current problems. Benjamin Higgins feels that for a society such as the United States a fiscal policy needs to be adopted that can deal simultaneously with existing unemployment and inflation. He suggests three possible governmental policies: stimulating a high rate of long-run growth, by use of reward innovations and by maintaining the highest possible level of scientific and technical activity; isolating regions that are generators of inflation and others that are pools for unemployment; and establishing a system of direct controls similar to those used in wartime. Higgins describes the transformation of the cogent prewar business cycle, with its alternations of inflation or unemployment, then a transitional period of underemployment equilibrium and secular stagnation, and finally, the strange new world of today, one with economic fluctuations in the form of shifting trade-off curves and loops. He then applies his new paradigm to current problems, showing why they cannot be managed through macroeconomic monetary and fiscal policy. Higgins offers case studies of efforts to fight inflation and unemployment, and to reduce regional gaps, to show their strengths and weaknesses. It can be said that unemployment always results from too many people chasing too few jobs, and inflation is always caused by too much money chasing too few goods and services. Beyond such banal generalizations, Higgins maintains there is no single cause for either unemployment or inflation, and thus no single cure can be prescribed for either, let alone for both at once. Nor is it to be expected that the appropriate cure will prove to be the same in all countries at all times. He suggests that an optimal blend of monetary and fiscal policy that will produce the "minimum discomfort" is a good start. Employment Without Inflation will be of direct policy interest to economists, sociologists, and national planners.
The Social Costs of Underemployment
Title | The Social Costs of Underemployment PDF eBook |
Author | David Dooley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2003-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1139449443 |
Going beyond the usual focus on unemployment, this 2004 book explores the health effects of other kinds of underemployment including forms of inadequate employment as involuntary part-time and poverty wage work. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this compares falling into unemployment versus inadequate employment relative to remaining adequately employed. Outcomes include self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and low birth weight. The panel data permit study of the plausible reverse causation hypothesis of selection. Because the sample is national and followed over two decades, the study explores cross-level effects (individual change and community economic climate) and developmental transitions. Special attention is given to school leavers and welfare mothers, and, in cross-generational analysis, the effect of mothers' employment on babies' birth weights. There emerges a way of conceptualizing employment status as a continuum ranging from good jobs to bad jobs to employment with implications for policy on work and health.
Unemployment Ended by Community Restored
Title | Unemployment Ended by Community Restored PDF eBook |
Author | Craig C. White |
Publisher | Craig White |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1602644845 |
This book unveils an innovative plan to end unemployment and poverty in America through the introduction and implementation of new community structures intentionally designed and constructed to improve and restore viable grass root communities throughout America. The plan allows core American values to be operationalized in the process of putting millions of Americans to work in a new class of highly valued and important jobs. It expands the available sectors of work from two to three, while simultaneously enhancing real or participatory democracy. It also requires the application of scientific methods of investigation and analysis to continuously refine the plan and improve its effectiveness.
The Full Employment Alternative
Title | The Full Employment Alternative PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Levison |
Publisher | Coward McCann |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |