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Moving the needle : what tight labor markets do for the poor / Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Katherine S., 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor market--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Labor market.
- Poor--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Poor.
- Unemployment--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Unemployment.
- Boston (Mass.)--Economic conditions.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press,, 2023.
- Summary:
- This timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America's most vulnerable households Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Moving the Needle examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves benefits, lengthens job ladders, and pulls the unemployed into a booming job market. Drawing on over seventy years of quantitative data, as well as interviews with employers, jobseekers, and longtime residents of poor neighborhoods, Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs investigate the most durable positive consequences of tight labor markets. They also consider the downside of overheated economies that can ignite surging rents and spur outmigration. Moving the Needle is an urgent and original call to implement policies that will maintain the current momentum and prepare for potential slowdowns that may lie ahead.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
- Introduction
- 1. The Dynamics of Tight Labor Markets
- 2. What Lasts? Durable Effects of Tight Labor Markets
- 3. Matching Up: How Employers Adapt to Tight Labor Markets
- 4. Leaning on Intermediaries
- 5. Entering from the Edge
- 6. Declining Drama
- 7. Family and Fortune
- 8. Policy Lessons from Tight Labor Markets
- Appendixes
- Personal and Institutional Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on May 11, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-520-97653-3
- OCLC:
- 1371406598
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