Foreword: What Happened to Shared Prosperity and Full Employment and How to Get Them Back: A Seussian Perspective / Richard B. Freeman -- 1. Introduction / Lauren D. Appelbaum -- 2. Job Displacements in Recessions: An Overview of Long-Term Consequences and Policy Options / Till von Wachter -- 3. Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Lessons from Denmark and Germany / John Schmitt -- 4. Causality in the Relationship between Mental Health and Unemployment / Timothy M. Diette, Arthur H. Goldsmith, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity Jr. -- 5. Work Together to Let Everyone Work / Hilbrand Oldenhuis and Louis Polstra -- 6. Stabilizing Employment : The Role of Short-Time Compensation / Vera Brusentsev and Wayne Vroman -- 7. Labor Market Measures in the Crisis and the Convergence of Social Models / Michele Tiraboschi and Silvia Spattini
Summary
The goal of this book is to enable a better understanding of the consequences of long-term unemployment and the policies that are needed to address it. The contributors present research that examines the psychological as well as economic consequences of experiencing a prolonged spell of joblessness. Included are discussions of policies to increase job creation and to get the long-term unemployed back into jobs
Notes
Papers presented at a conference held on Apr. 1-2, 2011
