Employment Guarantee Schemes

Poulomi Dasgupta, St. Peters College in Jersey City, USARichard B. Dadzie, University of Hawaii-West Oahu, USAAntoine Godin, University of Pavia, ItalyJosefina Y. Li, Bemidji State University, USANancy E. Rose, California State University, USA Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College, USA

"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

• Introduction; Michael J. Murray and Mathew Forstater 1. Green Jobs for Full Employment, a Stock Flow Consistent Analysis; Antoine Godin 2. Ningxia's Ecological Immigration Program: What It can borrow from an ELR Green Jobs Program; Josefina Y. Li 3. Beyond Full Employment: What Argentina's Plan Jefes Can Teach Us About the Employer of Last Resort; Pavlina R. Tcherneva 4. Employment Generation Schemes and Long Term Development - a Case Study in India; Poulomi Dasgupta 5. The State, Employer of Last Resort, and Youth Employment: A Case Study of the National Youth Employment Programme in Ghana; Richard B. Dadzie 6. Neighborhood Unemployment Councils and the Importance of Grassroots Support for the Policy Success of the Job Guarantee; Mathew Forstater 7. Bring Back the WPA: Lessons from the Job Creation Programs of the 1930s; Nancy Rose