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- Title
Job Assurance--The Job Guarantee Revisited.
- Authors
Gordon, Wendell
- Abstract
The employment problem needs to be divided into two parts: the problem as it applies to those ready, willing and able to work, and the problem as it applies to the handicapped. This article concerns itself with those able to work, rather than with the handicapped, who remain a serious problem in their own right. The job guarantee does not solve all problems. It does not solve the problems of the handicapped. For a system of job assurance⁄job guarantee to work, there must be an employer of last resort come institution that is bound to hire the able-bodied workers that no other employer is willing to hire and is bound to hire them at a "reasonable" wage. The organization of the job guarantee program might involve something like county-level agencies. These agencies would receive the request of the individual desiring to take advantage of the job guarantee. The agency would be in active contact with the various local governmental operations, with private employers and with private employment agencies that will, of course, handle most of the nation's employment, as has always been the case and will continue to be the case. In fact, the government itself already has in existence agencies playing this coordinating role in facilitating employment. Job guarantee, rather than income maintenance or the negative income tax or unemployment insurance or the market-clear ability of the free market, out to be the approach society uses to help the ready, willing and able-to-work unemployed.
- Subjects
RIGHT to work (Human rights); ECONOMIC security; EMPLOYMENT; WAGES; DOMESTIC economic assistance; EMPLOYMENT agencies; ECONOMIC surveys
- Publication
Journal of Economic Issues (Association for Evolutionary Economics), 1997, Vol 31, Issue 3, p826
- ISSN
0021-3624
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00213624.1997.11505968