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Job guarantee

A job guarantee is an economic policy proposal that aims to provide a sustainable solution to inflation and unemployment. Its aim is to create full employment and price stability by having the state promise to hire unemployed workers as an employer of last resort (ELR).[1]

Eleanor Roosevelt onsite one of the Works Progress Administration Projects, a job guarantee program in the United States.

The economic policy stance currently dominant around the world uses unemployment as a policy tool to control inflation. When inflation rises, the government pursues contractionary fiscal or monetary policy, with the aim of creating a buffer stock of unemployed people, reducing wage demands, and ultimately inflation.[2] When inflationary expectations subside, expansionary policy aims to produce the opposite effect.

By contrast, in a job guarantee program, a buffer stock of employed people (employed in the job guarantee program) is typically intended to provide the same protection against inflation without the social costs of unemployment, hence potentially fulfilling the dual mandate of full employment and price stability.[1]

Overview

A job guarantee is based on a buffer stock principle whereby the public sector offers a fixed wage job to anyone willing and able to work thereby establishing and maintaining a buffer stock of employed workers.[2] This buffer stock expands when private sector activity declines, and declines when private sector activity expands, much like today's unemployed buffer stocks.

A job guarantee thus fulfills an absorption function to minimize the real costs associated with the flux of the private sector. When private sector employment declines, public sector employment will automatically react and increase its payrolls. So in a recession, the increase in public employment will increase net government spending, and stimulate aggregate demand and the economy. Conversely, in a boom, the decline of public sector employment and spending caused by workers leaving their job guarantee jobs for higher paid private sector employment will lessen stimulation, so the job guarantee functions as an automatic stabilizer controlling inflation. The nation always remains fully employed, with a changing mix between private and public sector employment. Since the job guarantee wage is open to everyone, it will functionally become the national minimum wage.[3]

Under a job guarantee, people of working age who are not in full-time education and have less than 35 hours per week of paid employment would be entitled to the balance of 35 hours paid employment, undertaking work of public benefit at the minimum wage, though specifics may change depending on the model. The aim is to replace unemployment and underemployment with paid employment (up to the hours desired by workers), so that those who are at any point in time surplus to the requirements of the private sector (and mainstream public sector) can earn a wage rather than be underemployed or suffer poverty and social exclusion.[4]

A range of income support arrangements, including a generic work-tested benefit payment, could also be available to unemployed people, depending on their circumstances, as an initial subsistence income while arrangements are made to employ them.[citation needed]

Job guarantee theory is often associated with certain post-Keynesian economists,[5] particularly at the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (University of Newcastle, Australia), at the Levy Economics Institute (Bard College), and at University of Missouri – Kansas City including the affiliated Center for Full Employment and Price Stability.[6]

One theory was put forward by Hyman Minsky in 1965.[7][8] Notable job guarantee theories were conceived independently by Bill Mitchell (1998),[9] and Warren Mosler (1997–98).[10] This work was then developed further by L. Randall Wray (1998).[11] A comprehensive treatment of it appears in Mitchell and Muysken (2008).[12]

Inflation control

A fixed job guarantee wage provides an in-built inflation control mechanism. Mitchell (1998) called the ratio of job guarantee employment to total employment the buffer employment ratio (BER).[13] The BER conditions the overall rate of wage demands. When the BER is high, real wage demands will be correspondingly lower. If inflation exceeds the government's announced target, tighter fiscal and monetary policy would be triggered to increase the BER, which entails workers transferring from the inflating sector to the fixed price job guarantee sector.[13] Ultimately this attenuates the inflation spiral. So instead of a buffer stock of unemployed being used to discipline the distributional struggle, a job guarantee policy achieves this via compositional shifts in employment.

Replacing the currently widely-used measure the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), the BER that results in stable inflation is called the non-accelerating inflation buffer employment ratio (NAIBER).[13] It is a full employment steady state job guarantee level, which is dependent on a range of factors including the path of the economy. There is an issue about the validity of an unchanging nominal anchor in an inflationary environment.[13] A job guarantee wage would be adjusted in line with productivity growth to avoid changing real relativities. Its viability as a nominal anchor relies on the fiscal authorities reining in any private wage-price pressures.

No relative wage effects

Mitchell and Muysken believe that a job guarantee introduces no relative wage effects and the rising demand does not necessarily invoke inflationary pressures because it is, by definition, satisfying the net savings desire of the private sector.[14] Additionally, in today's demand constrained economies, firms are likely to increase capacity utilisation to meet the higher sales volumes. Given that the demand impulse is less than required in the NAIRU economy, if there were any demand-pull inflation it would be lower under a job guarantee.[14] There are no new problems faced by employers who wish to hire labour to meet the higher sales levels. Any initial rise in demand will stimulate private sector employment growth while reducing job guarantee employment and spending. However, these demand pressures are unlikely to lead to accelerating inflation while the job guarantee pool contains workers employable by the private sector.[14]

Wage bargaining

While a job guarantee policy frees wage bargaining from the general threat of unemployment, several factors offset this:

  • In professional occupational markets, any unemployment will generate downwards pressure on wages. However, eventually the stock of unemployed professionals will be exhausted, whereupon upward wage-price pressures can be expected to develop. With a strong and responsive tertiary education sector, skill bottlenecks can be avoided more readily than with an unemployed buffer stock;[citation needed]
  • Private firms would still be required to train new workers in job-specific skills in the same way they would in a non-Job Guarantee economy. However, job guarantee workers are far more likely to have retained higher levels of skill than those who are forced to succumb to lengthy spells of unemployment. This changes the bargaining environment rather significantly because firms now have reduced hiring costs. Previously, the same firms would have lowered their hiring standards and provided on-the-job training and vestibule training in tight labour markets. A job guarantee policy thus reduces the "hysteretic inertia" embodied in the long-term unemployed and allows for a smoother private sector expansion;[citation needed]
  • With high long-term unemployment, the excess supply of labour poses a very weak threat to wage bargaining, compared to a job guarantee environment.[15]

List of job guarantee programs

 
A billboard informing the public of the presence of Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers employed at the Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area. The EPWP is an attempt by government to alleviate South Africa's unemployment crisis.

Programs for adults

  • 1848 – The first modern direct job creation scheme was implemented by the Parisian government in France through the National Workshops which took place from February to June 1848.[citation needed]
  • 1928–1991 – The Soviet Union guaranteed a job for nearly everyone from about 1928 (as part of the Great Break) through to its end in 1991. A job guarantee was included in its 1936 constitution, and was given further prominence in the 1977 revision.[16] Later communist states followed this lead.
  • 1935–1943 – In the United States from 1935 to 1943, the Works Progress Administration aimed to ensure all families in the country had one paid job,[17] though there was never a job guarantee. Full employment was achieved by 1942 due to World War II, which led to the ending of the organisation the following year.
  • 1945 – From 1945, the Australian government was committed to full employment through the position established by the White Paper on Full Employment in Australia, however this never included a formal job guarantee. The Reserve Bank Act 1959 charges the Reserve Bank of Australia with ensuring full employment, amongst other duties.[18]
  • 1946 – The original drafters of the US Employment Act of 1946 intended for it to mandate full employment, however Congress ultimately gave it a broader pro-employment nature.[citation needed]
  • 1948 – The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights' Article 23 includes "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."[19] It is ratified by most non-socialist countries.
  • 1949-1997 – In the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1997, the "iron rice bowl" practiced guaranteed employment for its citizens.
  • 1978 – The US Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1978 authorized the government to create a "reservoir of public employment" in case private enterprise does not provide sufficient jobs. These jobs are required to be in the lower ranges of skill and pay so as to not draw the workforce away from the private sector. However, the act did not establish such a reservoir (it only authorized it), and no such program has been implemented, even though the unemployment rate has generally been above the rate (3%) targeted by the act.[20]
  • 1998 – Australia implements its national Work for the Dole scheme, requiring able-bodied people to do some form of work or study in order to get unemployment payments. The work involved is typically provided by charities, and sometimes by government agencies. The scheme would later be expanded to include commercial farms (Drought Force).
  • 1998–2010 – The United Kingdom's New Deal was similar to Australia's Work for the Dole scheme, though more focused on young people. It was in place from 1998 to 2010.
  • 2001 – The Argentine government introduced the Jefes de Hogar (Heads of Households) program[21] in 2001 to combat the social malaise that followed the financial crisis in that year.
  • 2005 – Similarly, the government of India in 2005 introduced a five-year plan called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to bridge the vast rural–urban income disparities that have emerged as India's information technology sector has boomed. The program successfully empowered women and raised rural wages, but also attracted the ire of landowners who have to pay farm labourers more due to a higher prevailing wage.[22] NREGA projects tend to be highly labour-intensive and low skill, like dam and road construction, and soil conservation, with modest but positive long-term benefits and mediocre management.[23]
  • 2012 – The South African government introduced the Expanded Public Works Program (EPWP)[24] in 2012 to overcome the extremely high unemployment and accompanying poverty in that country. EPWP projects employ workers with government, contractors, or other non-governmental organisations under the Ministerial Conditions of Employment for the EPWP or learnership employment conditions.
  • 2020 – The Labour Exchange in the district of Gramatneusiedl in Austria introduced a job guarantee that kicks in when somebody has been without a paid job for more than nine months. When a job seeker is placed with a private company, the Labour Exchange pays 100% of the wage for the first three months, and 66% during the subsequent nine months. Though most of the long-term jobless were placed in non-profit training companies tasked with repairing second-hand furniture, renovating housing and similar jobs, the overwhelming majority of the affected people reported improvements, notably in the areas of psychological well-being and maintaining social contacts. Gramatneusiedl is the location of the Marienthal textile works which closed in 1930, leading to massive unemployment in the community.[25] The sociological studies in the wake of the Marienthal closure, led by Hans Zeisel, Paul Lazarsfeld and Marie Jahoda, received international acclaim.

Programs for youth

  • The European Youth Guarantee[26] is a commitment by European Union member states to "guarantee that all young people under the age of 25 receive, within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education, a good quality work offer to match their skills and experience; or the chance to continue their studies or undertake an apprenticeship or professional traineeship." The committed countries agreed to start implementing this in 2014.[27] Since 2014, each year more than 3.5 million young people registered in the program accepted an offer of employment, continued education, a traineeship or an apprenticeship. Correspondingly, youth unemployment in the EU has decreased from a peak of 24% in 2013 to 14% in 2019.[26]
  • Sweden first implemented a similar guarantee in 1984, with fellow Nordic countries Norway (1993), Denmark (1996) and Finland (1996) following.[28][29] Later, some additional European countries also offered this as well, prior to the EU wide adoption.
  • Germany and many Nordic countries have long had civil and military conscription programs for young people, which requires or gives them the option to do low-paid work for a government body for up to 12 months. This was also the case in the Netherlands until 1997. It was also the case in France, and that country is reintroducing a similar program from 2021.

Advocacy

The Labour Party under Ed Miliband went into the 2015 UK general election with a promise to implement a limited job guarantee (specifically, part-time jobs with guaranteed training included for long-term unemployed youth) if elected;[30] however, they lost the election.

Bernie Sanders supports a federal jobs guarantee for the United States and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez included a jobs-guarantee program as one of her campaign pledges when she ran for, and won, her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018.[31][32]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Wray, L. Randall (23 August 2009). "Job Guarantee". New Economic Perspectives. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b corporateName=Commonwealth Parliament; address=Parliament House, Canberra. "Jobs Guarantee". www.aph.gov.au. Retrieved 6 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Job Guarantee -". Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. ^ Tcherneva, Pavlina R. (2018). "The Job Guarantee: Design, Jobs, and Implementation". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3155289. hdl:10419/209145. ISSN 1556-5068. S2CID 169092426.
  5. ^ Wray, L. Randall (August 2001), , Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, archived from the original on 15 March 2017, retrieved 5 October 2009
  6. ^ Center for Full Employment and Price Stability
  7. ^ (Minsky 1965)
  8. ^ (Wray 2009)
  9. ^ W.F. Mitchell (1998) "The Buffer Stock Employment Model - Full Employment without a NAIRU" Journal of Economic Issues 32(2), 547-55
  10. ^ W.B. Mosler (1997-98) "Full Employment and Price Stability" Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 20(2), 167-182
  11. ^ L. Randall Wray (1998) Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability, Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA.
  12. ^ W.F. Mitchell and J. Muysken (2008). Full Employment Abandoned: Shifting Sands and Policy failures 22 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine,. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. Revised: January 2009 [1] 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ a b c d http://www.fullemployment.net/publications/wp/2000/00-01.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ a b c http://pombo.free.fr/mitchellmuysken.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  15. ^ Mitchell, William F. (June 1998). "The Buffer Stock Employment Model and the NAIRU: The Path to Full Employment". Journal of Economic Issues. 32 (2): 547–555. doi:10.1080/00213624.1998.11506063. ISSN 0021-3624.
  16. ^ "Guaranteed Jobs: 46% Favor This New Dem Big Government Idea". Investor's Business Daily. 2 May 2018.
  17. ^ Leighninger, Robert D. (2007). Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570036637.
  18. ^ Ellis, Luci (12 June 2019). "Watching the Invisibles". Reserve Bank of Australia.
  19. ^ "Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Human rights at your fingertips - Human rights at your fingertips | Australian Human Rights Commission". humanrights.gov.au. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  20. ^ Saulnier, Raymond J. (1977). "A Critique of the Humphrey Hawkins Bill". Business Horizons. 20: 20–24. doi:10.1016/0007-6813(77)90084-2.
  21. ^ "Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social". Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social.
  22. ^ Breitkreuz, Rhonda; Stanton, Carley-Jane; Brady, Nurmaiya; Pattison‐Williams, John; King, E. D.; Mishra, Chudhury; Swallow, Brent (2017). "The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: A Policy Solution to Rural Poverty in India?". Development Policy Review. 35 (3): 397–417. doi:10.1111/dpr.12220. ISSN 1467-7679.
  23. ^ Datta, Polly (2009). "Attaining Sustainable Rural Infrastructure through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India". Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance: 143–152. doi:10.5130/cjlg.v0i4.1353.
  24. ^ "Expanded Public Works Programme". South African Government.
  25. ^ Szigetvari, András (3 December 2022). "Pilotprojekt im Marienthal: Wie eine Jobgarantie des AMS das Leben verändert" [PIlot project in Marienthal: How a job guarantee of the AMS changes lives]. Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  26. ^ a b "The Youth Guarantee". European Commission.
  27. ^ ESCUDERO, VERÓNICA (August 2017). "The European Youth Guarantee: A systematic review of its implementation across countries" (PDF). International Labour Office Research Department Working Papers (21): 1.
  28. ^ Hummeluhr, Niels (November 1997). "Youth guarantees in the Nordic countries" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  29. ^ ESCUDERO, VERÓNICA (August 2017). "The European Youth Guarantee: A systematic review of its implementation across countries" (PDF). International Labour Office Research Department Working Papers (21): 2.
  30. ^ "Labour extends jobs guarantee for long-term unemployed". BBC News. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  31. ^ Paddison, Laura (6 July 2018). "What Is A Federal Jobs Guarantee?". HuffPost. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  32. ^ Goldstein, Steve (27 June 2018). "Jobs-guarantee idea gets new focus after Ocasio-Cortez victory". MarketWatch. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

References

  • Minsky, H.P. (1965), The Role of Employment Policy, in M.S. Gordon (ed.), Poverty in America, San Francisco, CA: Chandler Publishing Company.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Further reading

External links

  • Expanded Public Works Program of South Africa
  • Job Guarantee: Introduction to and history of the concept

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Job guarantee news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message A job guarantee is an economic policy proposal that aims to provide a sustainable solution to inflation and unemployment Its aim is to create full employment and price stability by having the state promise to hire unemployed workers as an employer of last resort ELR 1 Eleanor Roosevelt onsite one of the Works Progress Administration Projects a job guarantee program in the United States The economic policy stance currently dominant around the world uses unemployment as a policy tool to control inflation When inflation rises the government pursues contractionary fiscal or monetary policy with the aim of creating a buffer stock of unemployed people reducing wage demands and ultimately inflation 2 When inflationary expectations subside expansionary policy aims to produce the opposite effect By contrast in a job guarantee program a buffer stock of employed people employed in the job guarantee program is typically intended to provide the same protection against inflation without the social costs of unemployment hence potentially fulfilling the dual mandate of full employment and price stability 1 Contents 1 Overview 2 Inflation control 2 1 No relative wage effects 2 2 Wage bargaining 3 List of job guarantee programs 3 1 Programs for adults 3 2 Programs for youth 4 Advocacy 5 See also 6 Footnotes 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksOverview EditA job guarantee is based on a buffer stock principle whereby the public sector offers a fixed wage job to anyone willing and able to work thereby establishing and maintaining a buffer stock of employed workers 2 This buffer stock expands when private sector activity declines and declines when private sector activity expands much like today s unemployed buffer stocks A job guarantee thus fulfills an absorption function to minimize the real costs associated with the flux of the private sector When private sector employment declines public sector employment will automatically react and increase its payrolls So in a recession the increase in public employment will increase net government spending and stimulate aggregate demand and the economy Conversely in a boom the decline of public sector employment and spending caused by workers leaving their job guarantee jobs for higher paid private sector employment will lessen stimulation so the job guarantee functions as an automatic stabilizer controlling inflation The nation always remains fully employed with a changing mix between private and public sector employment Since the job guarantee wage is open to everyone it will functionally become the national minimum wage 3 Under a job guarantee people of working age who are not in full time education and have less than 35 hours per week of paid employment would be entitled to the balance of 35 hours paid employment undertaking work of public benefit at the minimum wage though specifics may change depending on the model The aim is to replace unemployment and underemployment with paid employment up to the hours desired by workers so that those who are at any point in time surplus to the requirements of the private sector and mainstream public sector can earn a wage rather than be underemployed or suffer poverty and social exclusion 4 A range of income support arrangements including a generic work tested benefit payment could also be available to unemployed people depending on their circumstances as an initial subsistence income while arrangements are made to employ them citation needed Job guarantee theory is often associated with certain post Keynesian economists 5 particularly at the Centre of Full Employment and Equity University of Newcastle Australia at the Levy Economics Institute Bard College and at University of Missouri Kansas City including the affiliated Center for Full Employment and Price Stability 6 One theory was put forward by Hyman Minsky in 1965 7 8 Notable job guarantee theories were conceived independently by Bill Mitchell 1998 9 and Warren Mosler 1997 98 10 This work was then developed further by L Randall Wray 1998 11 A comprehensive treatment of it appears in Mitchell and Muysken 2008 12 Inflation control EditFurther information NAIBER A fixed job guarantee wage provides an in built inflation control mechanism Mitchell 1998 called the ratio of job guarantee employment to total employment the buffer employment ratio BER 13 The BER conditions the overall rate of wage demands When the BER is high real wage demands will be correspondingly lower If inflation exceeds the government s announced target tighter fiscal and monetary policy would be triggered to increase the BER which entails workers transferring from the inflating sector to the fixed price job guarantee sector 13 Ultimately this attenuates the inflation spiral So instead of a buffer stock of unemployed being used to discipline the distributional struggle a job guarantee policy achieves this via compositional shifts in employment Replacing the currently widely used measure the non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment NAIRU the BER that results in stable inflation is called the non accelerating inflation buffer employment ratio NAIBER 13 It is a full employment steady state job guarantee level which is dependent on a range of factors including the path of the economy There is an issue about the validity of an unchanging nominal anchor in an inflationary environment 13 A job guarantee wage would be adjusted in line with productivity growth to avoid changing real relativities Its viability as a nominal anchor relies on the fiscal authorities reining in any private wage price pressures No relative wage effects Edit Mitchell and Muysken believe that a job guarantee introduces no relative wage effects and the rising demand does not necessarily invoke inflationary pressures because it is by definition satisfying the net savings desire of the private sector 14 Additionally in today s demand constrained economies firms are likely to increase capacity utilisation to meet the higher sales volumes Given that the demand impulse is less than required in the NAIRU economy if there were any demand pull inflation it would be lower under a job guarantee 14 There are no new problems faced by employers who wish to hire labour to meet the higher sales levels Any initial rise in demand will stimulate private sector employment growth while reducing job guarantee employment and spending However these demand pressures are unlikely to lead to accelerating inflation while the job guarantee pool contains workers employable by the private sector 14 Wage bargaining Edit While a job guarantee policy frees wage bargaining from the general threat of unemployment several factors offset this In professional occupational markets any unemployment will generate downwards pressure on wages However eventually the stock of unemployed professionals will be exhausted whereupon upward wage price pressures can be expected to develop With a strong and responsive tertiary education sector skill bottlenecks can be avoided more readily than with an unemployed buffer stock citation needed Private firms would still be required to train new workers in job specific skills in the same way they would in a non Job Guarantee economy However job guarantee workers are far more likely to have retained higher levels of skill than those who are forced to succumb to lengthy spells of unemployment This changes the bargaining environment rather significantly because firms now have reduced hiring costs Previously the same firms would have lowered their hiring standards and provided on the job training and vestibule training in tight labour markets A job guarantee policy thus reduces the hysteretic inertia embodied in the long term unemployed and allows for a smoother private sector expansion citation needed With high long term unemployment the excess supply of labour poses a very weak threat to wage bargaining compared to a job guarantee environment 15 List of job guarantee programs Edit A billboard informing the public of the presence of Expanded Public Works Programme EPWP workers employed at the Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area The EPWP is an attempt by government to alleviate South Africa s unemployment crisis Programs for adults Edit 1848 The first modern direct job creation scheme was implemented by the Parisian government in France through the National Workshops which took place from February to June 1848 citation needed 1928 1991 The Soviet Union guaranteed a job for nearly everyone from about 1928 as part of the Great Break through to its end in 1991 A job guarantee was included in its 1936 constitution and was given further prominence in the 1977 revision 16 Later communist states followed this lead 1935 1943 In the United States from 1935 to 1943 the Works Progress Administration aimed to ensure all families in the country had one paid job 17 though there was never a job guarantee Full employment was achieved by 1942 due to World War II which led to the ending of the organisation the following year 1945 From 1945 the Australian government was committed to full employment through the position established by the White Paper on Full Employment in Australia however this never included a formal job guarantee The Reserve Bank Act 1959 charges the Reserve Bank of Australia with ensuring full employment amongst other duties 18 1946 The original drafters of the US Employment Act of 1946 intended for it to mandate full employment however Congress ultimately gave it a broader pro employment nature citation needed 1948 The UN s Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 23 includes Everyone has the right to work to free choice of employment to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment 19 It is ratified by most non socialist countries 1949 1997 In the People s Republic of China from 1949 to 1997 the iron rice bowl practiced guaranteed employment for its citizens 1978 The US Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1978 authorized the government to create a reservoir of public employment in case private enterprise does not provide sufficient jobs These jobs are required to be in the lower ranges of skill and pay so as to not draw the workforce away from the private sector However the act did not establish such a reservoir it only authorized it and no such program has been implemented even though the unemployment rate has generally been above the rate 3 targeted by the act 20 1998 Australia implements its national Work for the Dole scheme requiring able bodied people to do some form of work or study in order to get unemployment payments The work involved is typically provided by charities and sometimes by government agencies The scheme would later be expanded to include commercial farms Drought Force 1998 2010 The United Kingdom s New Deal was similar to Australia s Work for the Dole scheme though more focused on young people It was in place from 1998 to 2010 2001 The Argentine government introduced the Jefes de Hogar Heads of Households program 21 in 2001 to combat the social malaise that followed the financial crisis in that year 2005 Similarly the government of India in 2005 introduced a five year plan called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act NREGA to bridge the vast rural urban income disparities that have emerged as India s information technology sector has boomed The program successfully empowered women and raised rural wages but also attracted the ire of landowners who have to pay farm labourers more due to a higher prevailing wage 22 NREGA projects tend to be highly labour intensive and low skill like dam and road construction and soil conservation with modest but positive long term benefits and mediocre management 23 2012 The South African government introduced the Expanded Public Works Program EPWP 24 in 2012 to overcome the extremely high unemployment and accompanying poverty in that country EPWP projects employ workers with government contractors or other non governmental organisations under the Ministerial Conditions of Employment for the EPWP or learnership employment conditions 2020 The Labour Exchange in the district of Gramatneusiedl in Austria introduced a job guarantee that kicks in when somebody has been without a paid job for more than nine months When a job seeker is placed with a private company the Labour Exchange pays 100 of the wage for the first three months and 66 during the subsequent nine months Though most of the long term jobless were placed in non profit training companies tasked with repairing second hand furniture renovating housing and similar jobs the overwhelming majority of the affected people reported improvements notably in the areas of psychological well being and maintaining social contacts Gramatneusiedl is the location of the Marienthal textile works which closed in 1930 leading to massive unemployment in the community 25 The sociological studies in the wake of the Marienthal closure led by Hans Zeisel Paul Lazarsfeld and Marie Jahoda received international acclaim Programs for youth Edit The European Youth Guarantee 26 is a commitment by European Union member states to guarantee that all young people under the age of 25 receive within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education a good quality work offer to match their skills and experience or the chance to continue their studies or undertake an apprenticeship or professional traineeship The committed countries agreed to start implementing this in 2014 27 Since 2014 each year more than 3 5 million young people registered in the program accepted an offer of employment continued education a traineeship or an apprenticeship Correspondingly youth unemployment in the EU has decreased from a peak of 24 in 2013 to 14 in 2019 26 Sweden first implemented a similar guarantee in 1984 with fellow Nordic countries Norway 1993 Denmark 1996 and Finland 1996 following 28 29 Later some additional European countries also offered this as well prior to the EU wide adoption Germany and many Nordic countries have long had civil and military conscription programs for young people which requires or gives them the option to do low paid work for a government body for up to 12 months This was also the case in the Netherlands until 1997 It was also the case in France and that country is reintroducing a similar program from 2021 Advocacy EditThe Labour Party under Ed Miliband went into the 2015 UK general election with a promise to implement a limited job guarantee specifically part time jobs with guaranteed training included for long term unemployed youth if elected 30 however they lost the election Bernie Sanders supports a federal jobs guarantee for the United States and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez included a jobs guarantee program as one of her campaign pledges when she ran for and won her seat in the U S House of Representatives in 2018 31 32 See also EditCentre of Full Employment and Equity Chartalism Full Employment Abandoned Flexicurity Guaranteed minimum income Involuntary unemployment Job security Modern Monetary Theory National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Natural rate of unemployment Non accelerating inflation buffer employment ratio KurzarbeitFootnotes Edit a b Wray L Randall 23 August 2009 Job Guarantee New Economic Perspectives Retrieved 31 July 2018 a b corporateName Commonwealth Parliament address Parliament House Canberra Jobs Guarantee www aph gov au Retrieved 6 April 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Job Guarantee Retrieved 6 April 2021 Tcherneva Pavlina R 2018 The Job 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