KEY DIRECTIONS INCREASING POPULATION EMPLOYMENT

Alternative strategies for increasing employment.

As states reform their welfare systems to emphasize work and self-sufficiency, they can draw on significant past experience with efforts to promote employment. Work and training programs for welfare recipients and other disadvantaged individuals have been operating in every state for nearly 30 years. This article summarizes findings from key evaluations of strategies to increase the employment ...

Supported Employment : Critical Issues and New Directions

This paper chronicles the background, history, and philosophy associated with supported employment. The emphasis has been on growth of participation by people with disabilities into competitive employment for the first time. In addition to this important background, the concept of work supports is introduced. A taxonomy of government supports, business supports, and consumer supports is present...

Temporary Employment and Increasing Earnings Inequality

Temporary workers make up a sizeable part of the labor force in many countries, including Korea. This paper uses an extension of a standard efficiency wage model to explain the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers. Temporary workers have a chance to become permanent; this possibility – combined with the existence of an employment rent for permanent workers – gives short-term workers...

Population Labour Force and Employment

At the time of independence in 1947, 32.5 million people lived in Pakistan. By 2006-07, the population is estimated to have reached 156.77 million. Thus in roughly three generations, Pakistan’s population has increased by 124.27 million or has grown at an average rate of 2.6 percent per annum. While Pakistan has more mouths to feed, more families to house, more children to educate, and more peo...

Employment and Training Policies: New Directions for Less Skilled Adults