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EMPLOYMENT and UNEMPLOYMENT
A
New WPA? An Introduction to the Employer of Last Resort Proposal,
$ & Sense, 3/08
Union
Rates Increase in 2007, CEPR 1/
08
Survey
of Full Employment Advocates, Goldberg, Harvey, Ginsburg,
JEI 12/07
Tomorrow's
Jobs, BLS, 12/07
Green
Jobs by the Numbers, CEP, 11/07
U.S.
Employment Effects of Military & Domestic Spending Priorities,
Pollin & Garrett-Peltier
Toolkit
for Mainstreaming Employment and Decent Work, UN
Chief Executives Bd, 4/07
No-Benefit
Jobs Leave Parents Struggling, H. Boushey, Sojourners,
S/O 07
Anxious
Workers, FRBSF Economic Letter 2007-13; 6/1/07
Global
unemployment remains at historic high despite strong economic
growth ILO
"No Longer the
Retiring Type"[graph], NYT 9/06
"The
global jobs crisis," Juan
Somavia Director-General, ILO 9/06
"Blue-Collar
Brains: Minds in Motion on the Manual Job Front,"Bodie,
Reg'l Lab. Rev.
Tackling
the "decent work deficit"--ILO, 6/06
"Fed
Gets New Excuse to Keep Tightening Rates," The Big Picture,
comments, 4/3/06
"As the chart nearby makes
clear, the participation rate has fallen dramtically since
the recession. ....A drop of more than
2 percent of the labor force -- 140 million
people strong -- means that nearly 3 million former workers are
neither working nor
looking for work. Their departure from the pool makes the unemployment
measure
go down.
During most recoveries, the participation rate
typically rises as these "discouraged workers" return
to work."
"Out of School,
Out of Work . . . Out of Luck? NYC's Disconnected Youth,"
M Levitan, 1/05
Working
age men still can't find work, 2/8/06
Worker Risks: "People
who are unemployed stay unemployed, on average, about fifty per
cent longer now than they did in the seventies, and only about
half as many receive unemployment insurance as did so in 1947.
Furthermore, the explosion in health-care costs means that the
consequences of forfeiting company health insurance are graver
than ever.
So even though incomes have risen over the past three decades,
they fluctuate much more than they once did. Economists estimate
that income volatility is about twice what it was in the early
seventies.
Some of these changes make good business sense.
But cumulatively they add up to what Jacob Hacker, a political
scientist at Yale, calls “the great risk shift.” ...
workers are not being compensated with higher wages for taking
on all this new risk. Real wages for the eighty per cent of Americans
whom the government labels “production and nonsupervisory
workers” have actually fallen since 2001, and, even after
a burst of growth in the late nineties, the average household
income is only slightly above where it was in 1973." Surowiecki,
The New Yorker,
1/16/06 http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060116ta_talk_surowiecki
International
Labour Organization [ILO] on Decent Work
Are
Women Opting Out? Debunking the Myth, by
Heather Boushey
How
Good is the Economy at Creating Good Jobs?
Schmitt, CEPR, 10/05
Decent
Work in America: The State-by-State Work Environment
Index, 2005
Labor
Market Indicators
Additional Slack in the
Economy: The Poor Recovery in Labor Force Participation During
This Business Cycle Katharine Bradbury, Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston July 2005
... .Measured relative to the business cycle peak in March 2001,
labor force participation rates almost four years later have not
recovered as much as usual, and the discrepancies are large. Among
age-by-sex groups, the participation shortfall is especially pronounced
at young and prime ages: Only for men and women age 55 and older
has participation risen more than is usual four years after the
business cycle peak. The brief examines explanations and different
recovery scenarios for various groups—older workers, women,
teens. Depending on the scenario, the current labor force shortfall
ranges from 1.6 million to 5.1 million men and women. With 7.9
million people currently unemployed, the addition of these hypothetical
participants would raise the unemployment rate by 1 to 3-plus
percentage points. Current
low rates of labor market participation thus potentially represent
considerable slack in the
U.S. labor market.in March and April 2005.
http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/ppb/2005/ppb052.htm
BLS Unemployment Maps--by
state,
metro area,
county,
state
employment-population ratios,
Job
Quality Begins to Recover
Employment
Change by Industrial Sector
The
rising stakes of job loss: Stubborn
long-term joblessness amid falling unemployment
rates, Stettner & Allegretto, EPI
The
Benefits of Full Employment,by Jared Bernstein (EPI)
& Dean Baker (CEPR)
The
21st century workplace: Preparing for tomorrow’s employment
trends today Bernstein
EPI 5/05
The
Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring:
Impact of Production Shifts on
Jobs in the US, China, & Around the Globe, K. Bronfenbrenner
The
Case for an Envionmentally Sustainable Jobs Program Mathew
Forstater, Levy Instit.
Unemployment
and Labor Market Institutions: The Failure of the
Empirical Case for De-
regulation, Baker, Glyn, Howell, and Schmitt, ILO & CPE, New
School Univ.
From
Orchards to the Internet: Confronting Contingent Work Abuse,
NELP 3/02
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