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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In The New Geography of Jobs, award-winning Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti looks at the major shifts taking place in the US economy and reveals the surprising winners and losers - specifically, which kinds of jobs will drive economic growth and where they'll be located - while exploring how communities can transform themselves into dynamic innovation hubs.
"A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions...
Author
Series
Contributions in labor studies ; no. 52
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
11) America's top 100 jobs for people without a four-year degree: great jobs with a promising future
Author
Publisher
Impact Publications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With Donald Trump's rise to the presidency has come widespread awareness of the economic and social crisis facing much of the nation. Yet while everyone now cares, no one understands what happened or knows what to do. Most recommendations presume that we should proceed down our present path while somehow creating better government programs to drag along everyone falling behind. "I'm for globalization and a strong safety net" seems likely to become...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
Overview; David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their path breaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The full-time job is disappearing--is landing the right gig the new American Dream? One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This 'gig economy'--one that provides neither the guarantee of steady hours nor benefits--emerged out of the digital era and has revolutionized the way we do business. High-profile tech start-ups such as Uber and Airbnb are constantly making headlines for the disruption they cause to the industries they overturn....