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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Application software
ISBN : MINN:31951D03754805Y
Author : John Dearie,Courtney Geduldig
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118745533
A guide to ending America's jobs emergency by accelerating the true engine of job creation—start-ups Four years after the end of the Great Recession, 23 million Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or have left the workforce discouraged. Even worse, Washington policymakers seem out of ideas. Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy shows how America can restore its great job-creation machine. Recent research has demonstrated that virtually all net new job creation in the United States over the past thirty years has come from businesses less than a year old—true "start-ups." Start-up businesses create an average of three million new jobs each year, while existing businesses of any size or age shed a net average of about one million jobs annually. Unfortunately, the vital signs of America's job-creating entrepreneurial economy are flashing red alert. After remaining remarkably consistent for decades, the rate of new business formation has declined significant in recent years, and the number of new jobs created by new firms is also falling. In Where the Jobs Are, the authors recount the findings of a remarkable summer they spent traveling the country to meet and conduct roundtables with entrepreneurs in a dozen cities. More than 200 entrepreneurs participated—explaining in specific and vividly personal terms the issues, frustrations, and obstacles that are undermining their efforts to launch new businesses, expand existing young firms, and create jobs. Those obstacles include a dangerously underperforming education system, self-defeating immigration policies that thwart the attraction and retention of the world's best talent, access to capital difficulties, a mounting regulatory burden, unnecessary tax complexity, and severe Washington-produced economic uncertainty. Explains how start-ups are different from existing businesses, large or small, and why they represent the engine of job creation Reveals how policymakers' failure to understand the unique nature and needs of start-ups has undermined efforts to stimulate the economy following the Great Recession Presents a detailed, innovative, and uniquely credible 30-point policy agenda based on what America's job creators said they urgently need Engaging and informative, Where the Jobs Are reveals with unprecedented precision and clarity the major obstacles undermining the fragile economic recovery, and provides a vitally important game plan to unleash the job-creating capacity of the entrepreneurial economy and put a beleaguered nation back to work.
Author : Francoise Carre,Chris Tilly
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610448703
Retail is now the largest employer in the United States. For the most part, retail jobs are “bad jobs” characterized by low wages, unpredictable work schedules, and few opportunities for advancement. However, labor experts Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly show that these conditions are not inevitable. In Where Bad Jobs Are Better, they investigate retail work across different industries and seven countries to demonstrate that better retail jobs are not just possible, but already exist. By carefully analyzing the factors that lead to more desirable retail jobs, Where Bad Jobs Are Better charts a path to improving job quality for all low-wage jobs. In surveying retail work across the United States, Carré and Tilly find that the majority of retail workers receive low pay and nearly half work part-time, which contributes to high turnover and low productivity. Jobs staffed predominantly by women, such as grocery store cashiers, pay even less than retail jobs in male-dominated fields, such as consumer electronics. Yet, when comparing these jobs to similar positions in Western Europe, Carré and Tilly find surprising differences. In France, though supermarket cashiers perform essentially the same work as cashiers in the United States, they receive higher pay, are mostly full-time, and experience lower turnover and higher productivity. And unlike the United States, where many retail employees are subject to unpredictable schedules, in Germany, retailers are required by law to provide their employees notice of work schedules six months in advance. The authors show that disparities in job quality are largely the result of differing social norms and national institutions. For instance, weak labor regulations and the decline of unions in the United States have enabled retailers to cut labor costs aggressively in ways that depress wages and discourage full-time work. On the other hand, higher minimum wages, greater government regulation of work schedules, and stronger collective bargaining through unions and works councils have improved the quality of retail jobs in Europe. As retail and service work continue to expand, American employers and policymakers will have to decide the extent to which these jobs will be good or bad. Where Bad Jobs Are Better shows how stronger rules and regulations can improve the lives of retail workers and boost the quality of low-wage jobs across the board.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501143335
From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).
Author : Enrico Moretti
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780547750118
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Employment forecasting
ISBN : IND:30000089076727
Author : Harry J. Holzer,Julia I Lane,David B. Rosenblum,Fredrik Andersson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610447232
Deindustrialization in the United States has triggered record-setting joblessness in manufacturing centers from Detroit to Baltimore. At the same time, global competition and technological change have actually stimulated both new businesses and new jobs. The jury is still out, however, on how many of these positions represent a significant source of long-term job quality and security. Where Are All the Good Jobs Going? addresses the most pressing questions for today's workers: whether the U.S. labor market can still produce jobs with good pay and benefits for the majority of workers and whether these jobs can remain stable over time. What constitutes a "good" job, who gets them, and are they becoming more or less secure? Where Are All the Good Jobs Going? examines U.S. job quality and volatility from the perspectives of both workers and employers. The authors analyze the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, and the book covers data for twelve states during twelve years, 1992–2003, resulting in an unprecedented examination of workers and firms in several industries over time. Counter to conventional wisdom, the authors find that good jobs are not disappearing, but their character and location have changed. The market produces fewer good jobs in manufacturing and more in professional services and finance. Not surprisingly, the best jobs with the highest pay still go to the most educated workers. The most vulnerable workers—older, low-income, and low-skilled—work in the most insecure environments where they can be easily downsized or displaced by a fickle labor market. A higher federal minimum wage and increased unionization can contribute to the creation of well paying jobs. So can economic strategies that help smaller metropolitan areas support new businesses. These efforts, however, must function in tandem with policies that prepare workers for available positions, such as improving general educational attainment and providing career education. Where Are All the Good Jobs Going? makes clear that future policies will need to address not only how to produce good jobs but how to produce good workers. This cohesive study takes the necessary first steps with a sensible approach to the needs of workers and the firms that hire them.
Author : David G. Blanchflower
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217093
A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything—and why it is not as healthy as we think Relying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing. Because of a false sense of optimism prior to the COVID-19 shock, the working world was more vulnerable than it should have been. Not Working is about how people want full-time work at a decent wage and how the plight of the underemployed contributes to widespread despair, a worsening drug epidemic, and the unchecked rise of right-wing populism. David Blanchflower explains why the economy since the Great Recession is vastly different from what came before, and calls out our leaders for their continued failure to address one of the most unacknowledged social catastrophes of our time. This revelatory and outspoken book is his candid report on how the young and the less skilled are among the worst casualties of underemployment, how immigrants are taking the blame, and how the epidemic of unhappiness and self-destruction will continue to spread unless we deal with it. Especially urgent now, Not Working is an essential guide to strengthening the labor market for all when we need it most.
Author : Eric Kocher
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015025538359
Author : Nina Segal,Eric Kocher
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780786730292
From teaching English to analyzing intelligence for the federal government, the international field offers a broad spectrum of exciting job opportunities. For over twenty years, International Jobs has been the authoritative guide for researching and launching an international career. In this newly revised sixth edition, veteran career counselor Nina Segal updates Eric Kocher's classic reference, providing all the tools necessary for understanding the complex international job market and finding the right employment options. With the tried and true components of previous editions-practical résumé and interviewing advice, market analysis, and insightful "day-in-the-life" stories-as well as substantially increased Web resources, International Jobs is the essential comprehensive reference for students and established professionals alike who want a career in the global marketplace.
Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451648546
Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.
Author : FrankWerner,Larysa Burtseva,Yuri Sotskov MDPI
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783038971191
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue " Algorithms for Scheduling Problems" that was published in Algorithms
Author : B. Bergmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982582
This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of the great historical revolutions - the ongoing movement toward equality between the sexes - has come about. Its origins are to be found, not in changing ideas, but in the economic developments that have made women's labour too valuable to be spent exclusively in domestic pursuits. The revolution is unfinished; new arrangements are needed to fight still-prevalent discrimination in the workplace, to achieve a more just sharing of housework and childcare between women and men, and, with the weakening of the institution of marriage, to re-erect a firm economic basis for the raising of children.
Author : Colin Campbell
Publisher : Macfarlane Walter & Ross
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0921912269
Revised May 1996. The indispensable guide for those looking for their first job or their next job in the workplace of the future. Technology, free trade, the ‘global economy,’ the ‘jobless recovery’ all are having an irrevocable impact on the employment outlook for Canadians, and all are challenging or hopelessly confusing to those who must undertake serious career planning. Where the Jobs Are is both a resource book and a comprehensive analysis of the economic, demographic, and geopolitical trends that affected the job market in the 1990s and will continue to affect it into the 21st century. Which sectors will survive and thrive and where in the world will they operate? What business practices and organizational structures will companies need to be competitive and how can potential job seekers recognize these well-positioned companies? What are the prospects for Canada, its strengths and weaknesses, on the global playing field? And what are the personal skills required to develop a career strategy, market oneself to prospective employers, and anticipate workplace changes and upheavals before they arrive? Thoroughly comprehensive, this is the book that offers job seekers of any age or job history a blueprint for assessing the career market at the company, industry, and country levels - and for taking control of their careers and future prosperity.
Author : Colin Campbell
Publisher : Macfarlane Walter & Ross
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Career development Canada
ISBN : 0921912692
Revised May 1996. The indispensable guide for those looking for their first job or their next job in the workplace of the future. Technology, free trade, the 'global economy, ' the 'jobless recovery' all are having an irrevocable impact on the employment outlook for Canadians, and all are challenging or hopelessly confusing to those who must undertake serious career planning. "Where the Jobs Are is both a resource book and a comprehensive analysis of the economic, demographic, and geopolitical trends that affected the job market in the 1990s and will continue to affect it into the 21st century. Which sectors will survive and thrive and where in the world will they operate? What business practices and organizational structures will companies need to be competitive and how can potential job seekers recognize these well-positioned companies? What are the prospects for Canada, its strengths and weaknesses, on the global playing field? And what are the personal skills required to develop a career strategy, market oneself to prospective employers, and anticipate workplace changes and upheavals before they arrive? Thoroughly comprehensive, this is the book that offers job seekers of any age or job history a blueprint for assessing the career market at the company, industry, and country levels - and for taking control of their careers and future prosperity.