"This book is a tretise on the changing demographics of the American workforce and how corporations should work to alter job patterns on order to adapt to evolving employment trends. The authors first cite statistics to show the lack of growth in pay, benefits, and positions for the lowest-skilled workers. Despite the technological and economic growth since World War II, the majority of manufacturing jobs remain low paying and provide few prospects for future growth. According to these workers will improve without changes in these jobs. Among the strategies the authors advise: raising the...
"This book is a tretise on the changing demographics of the American workforce and how corporations should work to alter job patterns on order to adap...
"Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects," the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. The chapters analyze responses to six key policy challenges that most metropolitans areas and local communities face:
- Creating quality neighborhoods for families
- Governing effectively
- Building human capital
- Growing the middle class
- Growing a competitive economy through...
"Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects," the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effect...
"Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects," the third in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. The chapters analyze responses to five key policy challenges that most metropolitan areas and local communities face:
- Creating quality neighborhoods for families - Governing effectively - Building human capital - Growing the middle class - Enlarging a competitive economy...
"Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects," the third in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effecti...
The mission of the "Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects" series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.
Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional resilience, explaining how resilience can be promoted--or impeded--by regional characteristics and public policies.
The authors illuminate how the walls that now segment metropolitan regions across...
The mission of the "Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects" series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectivenes...
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors employ a wide range of techniques to examine...
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic...
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors employ a wide range of techniques to examine...
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic...
