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作者

来源

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY,Vol.33,Issue2SI,P.151-156

语言

英文

关键字

health care; low-wage jobs; direct care workers; job quality; GREEN HOUSE MODEL; NURSING-HOME CARE

作者单位

[Osterman, Paul] MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA. Osterman, P (reprint author), MIT, Sloan Inst Work & Employment Res, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA. E-Mail: osterman@mit.edu

摘要

The prevalence of low wage work is a major challenge for American labor markets and health care is an industry in which many of these low wage workers are found. This paper provides data documenting these facts and then discusses strategies for upgrading job quality for long-term care workers who constitute the majority of low wage employees in health care occupations. In addition the paper briefly discusses approaches for upgrading the employment opportunities of low wage employees who are in the health industry but in jobs that are not health care specific.