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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED151517 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Jobs for the Hard-to-Employ. New Directions for a
Public-Private Partnership. A Statement on National Policy
by the Research and Policy Committee of the Committee for
Economic Development.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 110 p.
AVAILABILITY: Committee for Economic Development, 477
Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022 ($3.00 paper,
$4.50 hardbound)
ABSTRACT: This policy statement focuses on ways of
overcoming unemployment and underemployment for groups
(young, old, disadvantaged) that typically experience high
or prolonged joblessness, and on increasing incentives for
productive work. Recommendations resulting from the CED
study focus on these areas: new and expanded use on a
nationwide basis of private-sector programs that already
work effectively and creation of a clearinghouse for
disseminating information about successful and innovative
programs; stronger organizational mechanisms to mobilize
private sector involvement; increased incentives and
reduced disincentives for private employment of the
hard-to-employ; improved approaches to the problems of
particular groups among the hard-to-employ; greater
business use of alternatives to outright layoffs in
recessions; and improved management and closer integration
of government programs that facilitate the employment of
the hard-to-employ, particularly the U.S. Employment
Service and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
(CETA). These recommendations are more fully discussed in
chapters dealing with the following: dimensions and costs
of unemployment, an integrated employment strategy,
enlarging the private sector's role, expanding training and
job opportunities for the hardest-to-employ, and more
effective management of federally assisted employment and
training programs. The appendix contains tables of labor
force statistics. (TA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Agency-Role;
Business-; Change-Strategies; Cooperative-Programs;
Employment Patterns; Employment-Practices;
Employment-Services; Equal Opportunities-Jobs;
Federal-Government; Federal-Programs;
Labor-Force-Development; Labor-Force-Nonparticipants; Labor
Utilization; Motivation-; Personnel-Policy; Public-Policy;
Underemployment-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Disadvantaged-; *Government-Role; *Job
Development; *Policy-Formation; *Unemployment-
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