A future of good jobs?
Subtitle: America's challenge in the global economy
By: Timothy J. Bartik, Susan N. Houseman, editors.
Contributors: Bartik, Timothy J.; Houseman, Susan N., 1956-; W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780880993319; 9780880993326
Subjects: Labor market -- United States -- Congresses; Labor supply -- United States -- Congresses; Manpower policy -- United States -- Congresses; Industrial management -- United States -- Congresses; Occupational training -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: The outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the Upjohn Institute in Washington, D.C., in June 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Timothy J. Bartik and Susan N. Houseman; title: Are skills the problem?: reforming the education and training system in the United States / Robert I. Lerman; title: Revising employers' role in sponsoring and financing health insurance and medical care / Katherine Swartz; title: Trade and immigration: implications for the U.S. labor market / Lori G. Kletzer; title: Removing barriers to work for older Americans / Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman; title: Improving job quality: policies aimed at the demand side of the low-wage labor market / Paul Osterman; title: Boosting the earnings and employment of low-skilled workers in the United States: making work pay and removing barriers to employment and social mobility / Steven Raphael.