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What Works for Workers? : Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers /
The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such a large segment of workers imperil economic prosp...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An economy that works for workers / Alice O'Connor
- What can labor organizations do for U.S. workers when unions can't do what unions used to do? / Richard B. Freeman
- Connecting the disconnected : improving education and employment outcomes among disadvantaged youth / Peter B. Edelman and Harry J. Holzer
- Mending the fissured workplace / David Weil
- Holding the line on workplace standards : what works for immigrant workers (and what doesn't)? / Jennifer Gordon
- Career ladders in the low-wage labor market / Paul Osterman
- Employment subsidies to firms and workers : key distinctions between the effects of the work opportunity tax credit and the earned income tax credit / Sarah Hamersma
- Living wages, minimum wages, and low-wage workers / Stephanie Luce
- Improving low-income workers' access to unemployment insurance / Jeffrey B. Wenger
- Can the Affordable Care Act reverse three decades of declining health insurance coverage for low-wage workers? / John Schmitt
- Low-wage workers and paid family leave : the California experience / Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum.