The US Labor Market: Questions and Challenges for Public Policy

Michael Strain

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Abstract: Public policy is rightly concerned with fostering a vibrant labor market in which individuals can earn their own success, realize their potential, and enjoy the dignity that hard work provides. But public policy faces serious challenges in today’s labor market: low workforce participation and high unemployment among many Americans, technological innovation, globalization, persistent poverty, education and training, and public policy’s unintended consequences are just a few.

Keywords: Immigration; jobs; Income inequality; corporate taxes; US workforce; US labor market; Economic mobility; disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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