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HELPING PEOPLE WITH LABOR MARKET PROBLEMS: AN OVERVIEW OF KEY POLICIES
Author(s) -
Levitan Sar A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1987.tb00824.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , work (physics) , government (linguistics) , business , welfare , matching (statistics) , wage , minimum wage , face (sociological concept) , labour economics , public relations , public economics , economics , political science , sociology , market economy , mechanical engineering , social science , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering
Those in need of employment and training programs face a variety of difficulties. Accordingly, the federal response to labor market problems has encompassed a wide range of initiatives. These include preparing people for work (through skills training, the Job Corps, work experience programs); improving the functioning of the labor market (through matching workers with jobs, establishing a minimum wage, and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit program); and preventing discrimination. Unresolved issues in these areas are examined. They include who should be targeted for federal assistance, which levels of government can best operate programs, how public versus private efforts should be balanced, how limited resources should be distributed, and how the welfare versus work question should be resolved.