Making Decent Jobs

Making green jobs safe.

Can a job be " Green " if it is not safe? Unfortunately, the current answer is yes. The United Nations Environment Program defines a green job as work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and development, administrative, and service activities that contribute substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality 1). The US Bureau of Labor Statistics proposes to define green jobs as...

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Implementation by decent mechanisms ¤

We address the design of optimal mechanisms for bargaining problems subject to incomplete information on reservation values. We characterize decent rules, those that are Pareto Optimal in the constrained set of rules satisfying strategy proofness, individual rationality and weak e±ciency a condition on ex-post e±ciency. We prove that for given concave utilities of the agents, the decent rule is...

Good Jobs America : Making Work Better for Everyone

Debates in which moral imperatives run up against finite economic resources and the pragmatics of policy-making are rarely productive. Each side arrives armed with studies and statistics to support their own position—this thing must be done at all costs; this thing costs too much to do; this thing cannot realistically be done—and each usually departs with those same beliefs intact. To move beyo...