首页
登录
职称英语
How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of
How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of
游客
2023-12-23
8
管理
问题
How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship.
Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930’s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies.
Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market- related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer. For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another working part-time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. Finally, income transfers in our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled, and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash and in-kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are adequately protected.
As a result of such contradictory evidence, it is uncertain whether those suffering seriously as a result of thousands or the tens of millions, and, hence, whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creation and economic stimulus. There is only one area of agreement in this debate--that the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for one of their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems. [br] The author uses "labor market problems" in lines 1 to refer to which of the following? ______
选项
A、The overall causes of poverty.
B、Deficiencies in the training of the work force.
C、Trade relationships among producers of goods.
D、Shortages of jobs providing adequate income.
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/3298219.html
相关试题推荐
Wewillnotbeheldresponsibleforanydamagewhichresults______roughhandling
MycompanyisExcellentKitchenwareCompany,therenearbyisabigmarketforki
Thefutilityoftheprogramresultedfrompoorplanning.A、possiblefailureinth
Thatboyissufferingfromunrequitedloveandpinesaway.A、ferventB、obsessive
Nowwhicharetheanimalsreallytobepitiedincaptivity?First,thosecle
Nowwhicharetheanimalsreallytobepitiedincaptivity?First,thosecle
Nowwhicharetheanimalsreallytobepitiedincaptivity?First,thosecle
Nowwhicharetheanimalsreallytobepitiedincaptivity?First,thosecle
Nowwhicharetheanimalsreallytobepitiedincaptivity?First,thosecle
Nowwhicharetheanimalsreallytobepitiedincaptivity?First,thosecle
随机试题
下列哪一种肿瘤的恶性类型不能归入癌()A.乳头状瘤 B.肠腺瘤 C.甲状
根据《软件工程术语GB/T11457-2006》,( )是一个正式的过程,通过
下列各项,对诊断葡萄胎最有意义的足A、子宫妊娠5个月大小,摸不到胎体 B、盆腔
初产妇,29岁。宫口扩张6cm,胎心136次/分,护理措施中正确的是()。A.
在婴儿饮食中添加肝泥和肉末的适宜时间是A.生后1~3个月 B.生后4~6个月
非法经营罪:是指违反国家的规定,非法经营,扰乱市场秩序,情节严重的行为。根据上述
痛风急性发作者不宜服用,以防发生转移性痛风的是A.别嘌醇 B.泼尼松 C.苯
(2021年真题)2×21年1月10日,甲行政单位以恢复的上年度财政直接支付额度
与发行债券筹资相比,留存收益筹资的特点是财务风险小。()
根据《建设工程施工劳务分包合同(示范文本)》GF-2003-0214规定,由承包
最新回复
(
0
)