Report of findings and recommendations on employment creation through public services in the USA - includes flow chart, references and statistical tables.

USA. Report investigating the possibilities of employment creation in the public sector - includes references and statistical tables.

As millions of Americans struggle to find work in the wake of the Great Recession, politicians from both parties look to regulation in search of an economic cure. Some claim that burdensome regulations undermine private sector competitiveness and job growth, while others argue that tough new regulations actually create jobs at the same time that they provide other benefits. Does Regulation Kill Jobs? reveals the complex reality of regulation that supports neither partisan view. Leading legal scholars, economists, political scientists, and policy analysts show that individual regulations can at times induce employment shifts across firms, sectors, and regions—but regulation overall is neither a prime job killer nor a key job creator. The challenge for policymakers is to look carefully at individual regulatory proposals to discern any job shifting they may cause and then to make regulatory decisions sensitive to anticipated employment effects. Drawing on their analyses, contributors recommend methods for obtaining better estimates of job impacts when evaluating regulatory costs and benefits. They also assess possible ways of reforming regulatory institutions and processes to take better account of employment effects in policy decision-making. Does Regulation Kills Jobs? tackles what has become a heated partisan issue with exactly the kind of careful analysis policymakers need in order to make better policy decisions, providing insights that will benefit both politicians and citizens who seek economic growth as well as the protection of public health and safety, financial security, environmental sustainability, and other civic goals. Contributors: Matthew D. Adler, Joseph E. Aldy, Christopher Carrigan, Cary Coglianese, E. Donald Elliott, Rolf Färe, Ann Ferris, Adam M. Finkel, Wayne B. Gray, Shawna Grosskopf, Michael A. Livermore, Brian F. Mannix, Jonathan S. Masur, Al McGartland, Richard Morgenstern, Carl A. Pasurka, Jr., William A. Pizer, Eric A. Posner, Lisa A. Robinson, Jason A. Schwartz, Ronald J. Shadbegian, Stuart Shapiro.

This timely collection will be the first of its kind to focus on the practical application of the government job guarantee (JG) for both developed and developing economies. Global case studies include: United States, China, Ghana, Argentina, Ireland, Iceland, and India.

USA. Research report on limitations to the feasibility of large-scale employment creation programmes in the public sector - identifies 233 job-creation activities in 21 public service areas (incl. Education, environmental protection, energy conservation, etc.), estimates direct and indirect employment opportunity effects, skill requirements, labour intensiveness of each programme, etc., and considers administrative aspects. Bibliography pp. 177 to 179 and statistical tables.

Evaluation of the public service employment programme, a component of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) of 1973, aiming to reduce unemployment through employment creation in the USA - comments on origins and evolution of CETA labour legislation, and examines the role of the programmes in combating cyclical unemployment and structural unemployment as well as in providing needed services at the local level and in subsidyzing jobs in nonprofit organizations. References.