Not Working : : Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? / / David G. Blanchflower.

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything—and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing. Because of a false sense of optimism prior to the COVID-19 shock, the working worl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 35 b/w illus. 21 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE TO THE 2021 EDITION
  • Chapter 1. What the Whole World Wants Is a Good Job
  • Part I The Problem: The Great Recession Exposed Underlying Fractures
  • Chapter 2. Unemployment and Its Consequences
  • Chapter 3 Wage Growth and the Lack of It
  • Chapter 4. The Semi- Slump and the Housing Market
  • Chapter 5. Underemployment
  • Part II The Response to the Great Recession
  • Chapter 6. Something Horrible Happened
  • Chapter 7. Sniffing the Air and Spotting the Great Recession
  • Chapter 8. The People Have Lost Their Pep
  • Chapter 9. Somebody Has to Be Blamed
  • Chapter 10. Disastrous Cries for Help
  • Part III What to Do?
  • Chapter 11. Full Employment
  • Chapter 12. Put the Pedal to the Metal
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index