Employment Guarantee Schemes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Employment Guarantee Schemes—Development, Environment, and Community

   • Michael J. Murray, Mathew Forstater

   Pages 1-5

3. Green Jobs for Full Employment, a Stock Flow Consistent Analysis

   • Antoine Godin

   Pages 7-46

4. Ningxia’s Ecological Immigration Program: An Embryonic Employer of Last Resort Program

   • Josefina Y. Li

   Pages 47-78

5. Beyond Full Employment: What Argentina’s Plan Jefes Can Teach Us about the Employer of Last Resort

   • Pavlina R. Tcherneva

   Pages 79-102

6. Employment Generation Schemes and Long-Term Development: A Case Study of the NREGA in India

   • Poulomi Dasgupta

   Pages 103-125

7. The State, Employer of Last Resort, and Youth Employment: A Case Study of the National Youth Employment Program in Ghana

   • Richard B. Dadzie

   Pages 127-143

8. The Job Guarantee and Municipal Confederalism: Exploring the National and Local Levels of Program Operation

   • Mathew Forstater

   Pages 145-154

9. Bring Back the WPA: Lessons from the Job Creation Programs of the 1930s

   • Nancy E. Rose

   Pages 155-179

10. Back Matter

    Pages 181-191

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Employment Generation Schemes directs attention to challenges and opportunities of enacting direct job creation policies in developing countries and BRICS, including: China, Ghana, Argentina, and India. This exciting new volume investigates how the Job Guarantee might interface with other policy goals.

• Argentina
• China
• developing countries
• development
• emerging markets
• employer
• employment
• migration
• science and technology
• success
• unemployment

"A hugely welcome series of studies of direct job creation policies in multiple countries that make clear that national employment guarantees can provide work security and mitigate poverty. Of special note is the efficacy of the Jefes y Jefas program in Argentina. A federal job guarantee is a policy that should be adopted in the USA. The essays in this volume offer the information needed to insure that an American program is designed and implemented paying close attention to the strengths and weaknesses of other nation's experiences with employment guarantees." - William A Darity, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics and Chair, Department of African and African American Studies, Duke University, USA

Poulomi Dasgupta, St. Peters College in Jersey City, USA Richard B. Dadzie, University of Hawaii-West Oahu, USA Antoine Godin, University of Pavia, Italy Josefina Y. Li, Bemidji State University, USA Nancy E. Rose, California State University, USA Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College, USA

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