EMPLOYMENT WORK USA

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EMPLOYMENT

Robert Michaels and Robert P. Murphy
Green Jobs: Fact or Fiction? An Assessment of the Literature
Institute for Energy Research – Study - January 2009 – 21 pages
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/IER%20Study%20-%20Green%20Jobs.pdf
“It is highly questionable whether a government campaign to spur “green jobs” would have net economic benefits. Indeed, the distortionary impacts of government intrusion into energy markets could prematurely force business to abandon current production technologies for more expensive ones. Furthermore, there would likely be negative economic consequences from forcing higher-cost alternative energy sources upon the economy. These factors would likely increase consumer energy costs and the costs of a wide array of energy-intensive goods, slow GDP growth and ironically may yield no net job gains. More likely, they would result in net job losses.”

Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Wealth and Credit
Mary Daly, Bart Hobijn, and Joyce Kwok Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - January 2009 –http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2009/el2009-05.html

“Using monthly data from the Household Survey of the Current Employment Situation Report, we find evidence suggestive that sharply reduced wealth and liquidity are prompting certain demographic groups to enter the labor force in greater numbers.”

Building Tomorrow’s Workforce: Promoting the Education and Advancement of Hispanic Immigrant Workers in America
Mary Gershwin et al. Excelencia in Education - January 21, 2009 – 51 pages http://www.edexcelencia.org/pdf/Building%20Tomorrow's%20Workforce%20full%20report.pdf
Strategic partnerships between industry and community colleges that engage younger Hispanic immigrants can boost the economy by training an important proportion of U.S. workers for future jobs. The report looks at six innovative partnerships throughout the country.

Recessions and Older Workers
Alicia H. Munnell et al. Center for Retirement Research, Boston College - January 2009 – 11 pages http://crr.bc.edu/images/stories/Briefs/ib_9-2.pdf
With the economy in recession, questions arise about how older workers are faring and how their fate relative to younger workers compares to the past. On the one hand, labor force participation among older workers has been rising since the early 1990s, a reversal of the long-standing trend toward ever-earlier retirement. On the other hand, the edge that older workers used to have relative to younger workers when it comes to layoffs seems to have disappeared, so the rise in the unemployment rate for older workers in recessions now looks similar to that for younger workers.

Improving Quality of Life through Telecommuting
Wendell Cox Information Technology & Innovation Foundation - January 20, 2009 – 24 pages http://www.itif.org/files/Telecommuting.pdf
The report shows that the number of jobs filled by telecommuters could grow nearly four-fold to 19 million and deliver substantial economic, environmental and quality of life benefits for the United States over the next 12 years. Spurred by advances in IT, especially the spread of broadband, telecommuting is already the fastest growing mode of getting from home to work. The report calls for government to pursue policies to accelerate and maximize telecommuting, including spurring the deployment and adoption of broadband, which is an essential facilitator of telecommuting.
Sundown for California Joel Kotkin The American – Article - November/December 2008.
http://www.american.com/archive/2008/november-december-magazine/sundown-for-california
“Much has changed in recent years. And today our Golden State appears headed, if not for imminent disaster, then toward an unanticipated, maddening, and largely unnecessary mediocrity. Since 2000, California’s job growth rate— which in the late 1970s surged at many times the national average—has lagged behind the national average by almost 20 percent. Rapid population growth, once synonymous with the state, has slowed dramatically. Most troubling of all, domestic out-migration, about even in 2001, swelled to over 260,000 in 2007 and now surpasses international immigration. Texas has replaced California as the leading growth center for Hispanics.”

Deborah Reed California's Future Workforce: Will There Be Enough College Graduates?
Public Policy Institute of California – Report - December 2008 - 20 pages http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_1208DRR.pdf
“Over the past several decades, the demand in California for college-educated workers has grown. But the supply of college graduates has not kept pace with demand, and it appears that this “workforce skills gap” will not only continue but widen. This study examines the causes, magnitude, and likely consequences of the potential mismatch between the level of education the future population is likely to possess and the level of education demanded by the future economy. The author concludes that if current trends continue, California will experience a serious shortfall of college graduates by 2025, unable to meet its needs even through the migration of college graduates from other states.”



REGULATION
Regulating Work in Confined Spaces
N. Mike Helvacian National Center for Policy Analysis - Brief Analysis, January 19, 2009 – 2 pages http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba639/ba639.pdf
“Since the early 20th century, employers have had incentives to increase workplace safety. In fact, the financial liability of employers for workplace accidents — as reflected in their worker’s compensation premiums — is the greatest incentive for employers to improve safety. Furthermore, increased workplace safety reduces employers’ costs due to injuries and lost productivity. OSHA regulations, on the other hand, increase regulatory compliance costs, but don’t necessarily improve safety.”

EMPLOYMENT RECESSION ; SOCIAL SECURITY
RECESSION AND OLDER WORKERS
Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, January 2009
http://crr.bc.edu/images/stories/Briefs/ib_9-2.pdf
With the economy in recession, questions arise about how older workers are faring and how their fate relative to younger workers compares to the past. On the one hand, labor force participation among older workers has been rising since the early 1990s, a reversal of the long-standing trend toward ever-earlier retirement. On the other hand, the edge that older workers used to have relative to younger workers when it comes to layoffs seems to have disappeared, so the rise in the unemployment rate for older workers in recessions now looks similar to that for younger workers.

RECESSION, POVERTY AND THE RECOVERY ACT
Center for American Progress, February 11, 2009
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/pdf/recession_poverty.pdf
The economic downturn means hard times for millions of Americans. If unemployment rates reach double-digits, as some economists fear, nearly 7 million people will lose their jobs, more than 7 million will lose their health coverage, and more than 12 million will fall into poverty.