Authors: Louise M. Fox. Melissa Sekkel Gaal.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Publication Date: 2008-04-25


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    Governments in Africa and their stakeholders have been disappointed with the number of wage and salary jobs that have been created over the last decade or more. Even in countries that experienced both strong economic growth and rapid poverty reduction during this period, job creation has lagged behind expectations. Faced with a rapidly growing labor force, Africa has to find new ways to create better paying jobs. Working Out of Poverty: Job Creation and the Quality of Growth in Africa reviews the literature and presents original research by the authors analyzing job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa in light of economic performance over the decade and more since 1995. The book identifies factors that impact job creation, both inside the labor market (such as labor supply and demand) and outside of it (overall investment climate). Working Out of Poverty focuses on the following key questions: How has the structure of economic growth and labor demand shaped the job creation process? What policies have been pursued to raise the quality of the African labor force? What does the expanding informal sector mean for the labor market and the quality of growth? Is it a route out of poverty or a low-skills trap?...

Authors: Vincent J. Roscigno.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007-05-28


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    The Face of Discrimination documents the extent, character, and implications of race and sex discrimination at work and in housing, drawing from a rich body archived discrimination suits themselves. It moves beyond traditional social science research on the topic and grounds the reader in the reality of discrimination as it is played out in the actual jobs, neighborhoods, and lives of real people....

Authors: Joan Fitzgerald.
Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: ILR Press
Publication Date: 2006-01-12


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    "The United States used to be a country where ordinary people could expect to improve their economic condition as they moved through life. For millions of us, this is no longer the case. Many Americans today have a lower standard of living as adults than they had in their parents’ homes as children. . . . This book is about restoring the upward mobility of U.S. workers. Specifically, it addresses the workforce-development strategy of creating not just jobs, but career ladders."—from Moving Up in the New Economy

Career-ladder strategies create opportunities for low-wage workers to learn new skills and advance through a progression of higher-skilled and better-paid jobs. For example, nurses’ aides can become licensed practical nurses, administrative assistants can become information technology workers, and bank tellers can become loan officers.

Career-ladder programs could provide opportunities for upward mobility and also stave off impending national shortages of skilled workers. But there are a variety of obstacles that must be faced candidly if career-ladder programs are to succeed. In Moving Up in the New Economy, Joan Fitzgerald explores specific programs in different sectors of the economy—health care, child care, education, manufacturing, and biotechnology—to offer a comprehensive analysis of this innovative approach to job training. Addressing the successes achieved—and the problems faced—by career-ladder programs, this timely book will be of interest to anyone interested in career development, workforce training, and employment issues, especially those that affect low-wage workers....

Authors:
Paperback, 338 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 1999-01
Edition: 1

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    This volume examines questions related to the prevention, compensation, and accom-modation of work disabilities. It focuses on disabilities arising out of workplace activity. CONTENTS Introduction Dispelling the Myths about Work Disability The Prevention of Disability from Work-related Sources: The Roles of Risk Management,

Government Intervention, and Insurance The Prevention of Behavioral Disabilities from Nonwork Sources: Employee Assistance Programs and Related Strategies The Role of Unions and Collective Bargaining in Preventing Work-related Disability Reducing the Consequences of Disability: Policies to Reduce Discrimination against Disabled Workers Facilitating Employment through Vocational Rehabilitation Compensation for Disabled Workers: Workers' Compensation Social Security Disability Insurance: A Policy Review Disputes and Dispute Resolutions Convergence: A Comparison of European and U.S. Disability Policy CONTRIBUTORS LEO J. M. AARTS MARJORIE L. BALDWIN MONROE BERKOWITZ TERRY C. BLUM RICHARD V. BURKHAUSER JOHN F. BURTON JR. RICHARD J. BUTLER DAVID DEAN PHILIP R. DE JONG DAVID DURBIN DOUGLAS HYATT BARBARA A. ISRAEL WILLIAM G. JOHNSON PAUL LANDSBERGIS BARBARA A. LEE JERRY L. MASHAW VIRGINIA RENO KAREN ROBERTS PAUL M. ROMAN SUSAN J. SCHURMAN EMILY A. SPIELER TERRY THOMASON ROGER J. THOMPSON DAVID WEIL...

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Paperback, 428 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2008-10-30
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data presents a set of papers by leading scholars on methods for analysing the longitudinal data that is available on numerous topics of interest to social scientists. Because many sources of longitudinal data record labour market phenomena such as unemployment, labour supply, earnings mobility, job turnover and participation in training programmes, all of the papers collected in this volume focus on models of the labour market. The main methodological points, however, are more general and apply to such diverse areas as demography, life science analysis and training evaluation, to name only a few, potential avenues of application. The book contains important methodological contributions to the emerging field of longitudinal analysis and is of interest to a wide range of social scientists....

Authors: Philip S. Foner.
Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: International Publishers
Publication Date: 1979-06

Authors: Edmund S. Phelps.
Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
Edition: 1

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Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. No longer able to earn a decent wage in respectable work, many have left the labor force, and the job attachment of those remaining has weakened. For Edmund Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.

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Authors: Ross West.
Paperback, 193 pages
Publisher: Broadman & Holman Pub
Publication Date: 1998-01
Edition: Rev Sub

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    Filled with stories that make the message personal, How to Be Happier in the Job You Sometimes Can't Stand offers twelve practical ways to help you be happier in your work--even if sometimes you can't stand it....

Authors: Terence Byres.
Paperback, 376 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1999-04-29
Edition: 1

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    This volume is about the emerging development trajectories of rural labour relations in India, based on studies from its regions and states. its overarching theme is the rural class conflict and the results of such conflict, and the link between this and the nature and impact of state intervention. Vigorous emancipatory processes are identified, and the limitations of and contradictions inherent in such processes are examined. Both powerful general trends and significant regional variations are distinguished....

Authors: Henry Bernstein. Hazel Johnson.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication Date: 1983-07-27


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    Two overviews and twenty-nine first-person accounts of the everyday lives of peasants, workers, labor migrants, and "marginals" from a variety of Third World countries....