Temporary Employment and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
Author : Maria Ward Otoo
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Temporary employment
ISBN :
Author : Maria Ward Otoo
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Temporary employment
ISBN :
Author : Erin Hatton
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439900825
groundwork for a new corporate ethos of ruthless cost cutting and mass layoffs. --
Author : Peter Cappelli
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1613630131
Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won't accept jobs at the wages offered. In this powerful and fast-reading book, Peter Cappelli, Wharton management professor and director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, debunks the arguments and exposes the real reasons good people can't get hired. Drawing on jobs data, anecdotes from all sides of the employer-employee divide, and interviews with jobs professionals, he explores the paradoxical forces bearing down on the American workplace and lays out solutions that can help us break through what has become a crippling employer-employee stand-off. Among the questions he confronts: Is there really a skills gap? To what extent is the hiring process being held hostage by automated software that can crunch thousands of applications an hour? What kind of training could best bridge the gap between employer expectations and applicant realities, and who should foot the bill for it? Are schools really at fault? Named one of HR Magazine's Top 20 Most Influential Thinkers of 2011, Cappelli not only changes the way we think about hiring but points the way forward to rev America's job engine again.
Author : Jan C. van Ours
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Employment Office
ISBN :
This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that substantially reduced the potential benefit duration. Although this reduction strongly increased job finding rates, the quality of the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected. The paper finds that the law change had no effect on the type of contract (temporary versus permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment job, or the wage earned in the job.
Author : Lewis Mark Segal
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Contract system (Labor)
ISBN :
Author : Rod Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521483308
For 25 years, theory about the causes of, and possible solutions to, the problem of unemployment has been dominated by Phelps' and Friedman's natural rate of unemployment hypothesis. This postulates that the equilibrium rate of unemployment consistent with steady inflation is determined by structural variables: sustainable reductions in unemployment can be achieved only by measures to change underlying microeconomic structures, such as benefit and pay bargaining systems. Belief in the hypothesis has faltered since the 1980s, the hypothesis being unable to explain the dramatic upward shifts in European unemployment rates. These essays reflect upon the fundamental structures underlying the hypothesis, assess the related evidence, and look forwards, suggesting possible modifications. In contrast to the single rate postulated by the natural rate hypothesis, several of the contributors propose that there are ranges of unemployment rates consistent with steady inflation.
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Robert Ernest Hall
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Labor supply
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Sawyer-Kelley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2006-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780716756880
For each chapter, the Study Guide provides an introduction, fill-in-the-blank chapter review, learning tips with graphical analysis, 4-5 comprehensive problems and exercises, 20 multiple-choice questions, and solutions to all fill-in-the-blank, problems, exercises, and quizzes found within the Study Guide.
Author : Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226261867
This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics as applied to youth employment, point out the error in many commonly accepted views, and show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood. These studies also supply a significant amount of raw data, furnish a platform for further research and theoretical work in labor economics, and direct attention to promising avenues for future programs.