Moving the Needle

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What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor

By Elisabeth S. Jacobs and Katherine S. Newman

Summary

Moving the Needle explores how sustained periods of very low unemployment positively transform the lives of America’s most vulnerable households. Rather than dwelling on the harms of joblessness, authors Elisabeth S. Jacobs and Katherine S. Newman reveal how tight labour markets raise wages, enhance benefits, extend job ladders, and draw the unemployed into thriving job sectors. Drawing on over seventy years of data combined with first-hand interviews, the book highlights enduring benefits while also addressing potential drawbacks such as rising rents and population shifts. This thorough investigation presents a compelling case for policies that sustain economic momentum and brace for possible slowdowns.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in economics, social policy, poverty studies, labour markets, and anyone seeking to understand the interplay between employment rates and social outcomes in the United States.

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This timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labour markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America’s most vulnerable households.

Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Moving the Needle examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves benefits, lengthens job ladders, and pulls the unemployed into a booming job market.

Drawing on over seventy years of quantitative data, as well as interviews with employers, jobseekers, and longtime residents of poor neighbourhoods, Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs investigate the most durable positive consequences of tight labour markets. They also consider the downside of overheated economies that can ignite surging rents and spur outmigration. Moving the Needle is an urgent and original call to implement policies that will maintain the current momentum and prepare for potential slowdowns that may lie ahead.

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Publishers Weekly praises the book as “astute and timely” and a valuable resource for activists, scholars, and policymakers fighting poverty. Social Forces describes it as a compelling and broadly relevant study that serves as an excellent model for social science research on work and poverty dynamics.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520379107

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 19 b-w figures, 9 tables, 3 maps

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 635g

Pages: 376

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Education & Reference Elisabeth S. Jacobs Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Katherine S. Newman Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Katherine S. Newman is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of California. She is author of fourteen books on topics including the working poor, social mobility, apprenticeship, the impact of regressive taxation, and downward mobility.

Elisabeth S. Jacobs is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and cofounder of WorkRise, a research-to-action network on jobs, workers, and mobility, for which she serves as deputy director. She has worked at the intersection of cutting-edge social science and public policy for nearly two decades.