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作者

Paul Osterman

来源

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY,Vol.33,Issue.2

语言

英文

关键字

Keywords health care, low-wage jobs, direct care workers, job quality

作者单位

1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

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.