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In the area of labor market policy, the 1970s have seen a major redirection of policy away from programs designed to change the productivity of individual workers and toward direct job-creation policies. For fiscal year 1980, nearly $4 billion was obligated for direct job-creation efforts, three- fourths of it for public sector job creation. This outlay reflects a major change of emphasis from the earlier training-education-placement efforts in the manpower field, and an expansion of income support policy in the transfer program area. The effort to provide jobs directly to the unemployed would appear to reflect dissatisfaction — perhaps, frustration — with policies to increase income and employment via increasing earnings capacity, and to maintain the income of those for whom work is unavailable.
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Haveman, R.H. (1980). Direct Job Creation. In: Sommers, P.M. (eds) Welfare Reform in America. Middlebury Conference Series on Economic Issues. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7389-3_10
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