Moving the Needle
What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor
$41.53
- Hardcover
376 pages
- Release Date
20 July 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 b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520379107 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0520379101 |
| Author: | Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth S. Jacobs |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Astute and timely … . This is a valuable resource for activists, scholars, and policymakers on the front lines of the battle to end poverty.” * Publishers Weekly *
“Overall, then, Moving the Needle provides a compelling account of the dynamics of tight labor markets with broad relevance to scholars of work and poverty, very broadly defined, and it serves as a useful model for a wide range of social science research.”
* Social Forces *
“The authors’ thoughtful analyses … extending well beyond labor market tightness, make this a synthesis that is both timely and valuable”.”
* Journal of the American Planning Association *“More than simply relying on trades, deWaard turns to quarterly earnings reports and anonymous interviews to understand this critical signal crisis. To call deWaard’s text essential would be an understatement.”
* Media Industries Journal *Katherine S. Newman
Katherine S. Newman is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of California. She is author of fourteen books on topics including the working poor, social mobility, apprenticeship, the impact of regressive taxation, and downward mobility.
Elisabeth S. Jacobs is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and cofounder of WorkRise, a research-to-action network on jobs, workers, and mobility, for which she serves as deputy director. She has worked at the intersection of cutting-edge social science and public policy for nearly two decades.
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