Urban labor markets and employment policy
Master
In Maynard (USA)
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Master
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Maynard (USA)
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This subject discusses the broader trends in the labor market, how urban labor markets function, public and private training policy, other labor market programs, the link between labor market policy and economic development, and the organization of work within firms.
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- Public
- Market
Course programme
Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session
This course combines an examination of how urban labor markets work, and how employment patterns are shifting in the United States, with a consideration of public policy. In the first part of the course we examine the distribution of labor market outcomes (wages and job security), shifts in the organization of work within firms (e.g. teams and contingent work), how jobs are found in urban labor markets and the role of networks, and the situation of specific groups such as women and immigrants. We then turn to public policy and consider a variety of issues regarding job training, the link between economic development and labor market policy, living wage campaigns, unions, and welfare reform. The course will be organized around readings and discussion with only occasional lectures. For this to work, all students will need to come to class having done the readings and prepared to discuss them.
During the course you will also be asked to read Securing Prosperity and Gathering Power. These books can be found with the following information:
Osterman, Paul. Securing Prosperity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0691086885.
———. Gathering Power. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2003. ISBN 0807043389.
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Urban labor markets and employment policy