Upjohn Research

Title

A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy

Authors

Timothy J. Bartik , Editor, W.E. Upjohn InstituteFollow
Susan N. Houseman , Editor, W.E. Upjohn InstituteFollow

Year

2008

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.

Contents

1. Introduction and overview / Timothy J. Bartik and Susan N. Houseman
2. Are skills the problem?: reforming the education and training system in the United States / Robert I. Lerman
3. Revising employers' role in sponsoring and financing health insurance and medical care / Katherine Swartz
4. Trade and immigration: implications for the U.S. labor market / Lori G. Kletzer
5. Removing barriers to work for older Americans / Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
6. Improving job quality: policies aimed at the demand side of the low-wage labor market / Paul Osterman
7. Boosting the earnings and employment of low-skilled workers in the United States: making work pay and removing barriers to employment and social mobility / Steven Raphael

Citation

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.

Note

The outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the Upjohn Institute in Washington, D.C. in June 2007

ISBN

978-0-88099-332-6 (cloth); 978-0-88099-331-9 (pbk)

Subject Areas

EDUCATION and TRAINING; EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; GLOBAL ISSUES; UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY