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072		7	_aBUS069000 _2bisacsh
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aSolow, Robert M. _eautore
245	1	0	_aWork and Welfare / _cRobert M. Solow; ed. by Amy Gutmann.
250			_aCore Textbook
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2009]
264		4	_c©1999
300			_a1 online resource (112 p.) : _b3 tables 2 line illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aThe University Center for Human Values Series ; _v34
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tIntroduction -- _tPreface to the Lectures -- _tLecture I: Guess Who Likes Workfare -- _tLecture II: Guess Who Pays for Workfare -- _tComment -- _tComment -- _tComment -- _tComment -- _tResponse to Comments -- _tContributors -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to a job. Solow contends that the demand implicit in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act for welfare recipients to find work in the existing labor market has two crucial flaws. First, the labor market would not easily make room for a huge influx of unskilled, inexperienced workers. Second, the normal market adjustment to that influx would drive down earnings for those already in low-wage jobs. Solow concludes that it is legitimate to want welfare recipients to work, but not to want them to live at a miserable standard or to benefit at the expense of the working poor, especially since children are often the first to suffer. Instead, he writes, we should create new demand for unskilled labor through public-service employment and incentives to the private sector--in effect, fair "workfare." Solow presents widely ignored evidence that recipients themselves would welcome the chance to work. But he also points out that practical, morally defensible workfare would be extremely expensive--a problem that politicians who support the idea blithely fail to admit. Throughout, Solow places debate over welfare reform in the context of a struggle to balance competing social values, in particular self-reliance and altruism. The book originated in Solow's 1997 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. It includes reactions from the distinguished scholars Gertrude Himmelfarb, Anthony Lewis, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer, who expand on and take issue with Solow's arguments. Work and Welfare is a powerful contribution to debate about welfare reform and a penetrating look at the values that shape its course.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aPoor _xEmployment _xUnited States.
650		0	_aPoor _xEmployment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPublic welfare _xUnited States.
650		0	_aPublic welfare _zUnited States.
650		0	_aUnskilled labor _xUnited States.
650		0	_aUnskilled labor _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWages _xUnited States.
650		0	_aWages _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWelfare recipients _xEmployment _xUnited States.
650		0	_aWelfare recipients _xEmployment _zUnited States.
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aGutmann, Amy _eautore _ecuratore
700	1		_aHimmelfarb, Gertrude _eautore
700	1		_aLewis, Anthony _eautore
700	1		_aLoury, Glenn C. _eautore
700	1		_aRoemer, John E. _eautore
700	1		_aSolow, Robert M. _eautore
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