[PDF] Jobless Growth eBook

Author : Christian Krohn-Hansen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1503631575

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The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and poor Dominicans worked and lived in the shadow of the country's conspicuous growth rates? This book considers this question through an ethnographic exploration of the popular economy in the Dominican capital. Focusing on the city's precarious small businesses, including furniture manufacturers, food stalls, street-corner stores, and savings and credit cooperatives, Krohn-Hansen shows how people make a living, tackle market shifts, and the factors that characterize their relationship to the state and pervasive corruption. Empirically grounded, this book examines the condition of the urban masses in Santo Domingo, offering an original and captivating contribution to the scholarship on popular economic practices, urban changes, and today's Latin America and the Caribbean. This will be essential reading for scholars and policy makers.

Author : Ricardo J. Caballero
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Appropriate technology
ISBN :

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A central determinant of the political economy of capital-labor relations is the appropriability of specific quasi-rents." This paper is concerned with the general-equilibrium interaction of appropriability and characteristics of technology namely, the embodiment of technology in capital and capital-labor substitutability in the technological menu. Technological embodiment means that the supply of capital is effectively much less elastic in the short than in the long run, and is therefore more exposed to appropriability; technology choice implies that an attempt at appropriating capital will induce a substitution away from labor in the long run, and constitutes a mechanism to thwart appropriation. Shifts in European labor relations in the last three decades offer a good laboratory to explore the empirical relevance of those mechanisms. The evolution of the labor share, the profit rate, the capital/output ratio, and unemployment which we examine more particularly in the case of France appears highly supportive

Author : Robert James Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521531429

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 1993
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Focusing on the industrialized countries, discusses demand side and supply side solutions to the problem of jobless growth.

Author : William N. Spencer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1493166301

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While government vote buyers continue to rant and rave, scream and yell about all kinds of current politically correct or politically incorrect discrimination in the business and corporate world, these very same politicos totally ignore the real government created discrimination practiced every day, that of the inferior education provided by most public school systems throughout every city and state in America. The business of businessis business. It is also often stated that any action undertaken or performed by a corporation that does not make the maximum amount of profit for that corporation, is a crime committed against the businesss owners/stockholders. We have now had five years of a micro-managing, over-controlling federal government whos only stated goal is: To put every American business out of business, and every American worker out of work. Good Job Guys!

Author : John Eatwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315481995

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A collection of papers that address unemployment as a social phenomenon. It suggests there are solutions if society is willing to take the steps necessary to find and implement them. Focus is on the persistent unemployment in the USA and the UK.

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2005-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592131387

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Americans have always believed that economic growth leads to job growth. In this groundbreaking analysis, Stanley Aronowitz argues that this is no longer true. Just Around the Corner examines the state of the American economy as planned by Democrats and Republicans over the last thirty years. Aronowitz finds that economic growth has become "delinked" from job creation, and that unemployment and underemployment are a permanent condition of our economy. He traces the historical roots of this state of affairs and sees under the surface of booms and busts a continuum of economic austerity that creates financial windfalls for the rich at the expense of most Americans. Aronowitz also explores the cultural and political processes by which we have come to describe and accept economics in the United States. He concludes by presenting a concrete plan of action that would guarantee employment and living wages for all Americans. With both measured analysis and persuasive reasoning, Just Around the Corner provides an indispensable guide to our current economic predicament and a bold challenge to economists and policymakers.