I cannote-mail to Anne Mayhew at the address given. Please supply your
mailing address, and I'll ail you the material. Sally Lerner
>FROM: MAYHEW
>" ANNE
>" SMC
>This is a response to Sally Lerner and a request to all others: 1) Sally,
>would you resend the long messages about the conference on education and
>income distribution in Canada. That is, send it to me as I inadvertently wiped
>it out in the process of trying to download to WP. 2) To Sally and everyone
>else, a request: A graduate student and I have been trying to figure out how
>to think about how new jobs are created. Both political and scholarly focus on
>the need for new jobs in this country and elsewhere has been on the skills of
>workers. Proposals for retraining, for improved education, and for reforms
>that will provide greater incentives to workers are based on the assumption
>that chronic unemployment is a consequence of a lack of appropriate skill and
>prepreation. On the demand side the focus has been primarily macroeconomic.
>Job creation is analyzed as a consequence of variation in macroeconomic
>variables.
>
>Our question is very microeconomic but not one that can be answered by
>standard microeconomics. What we are wondering about is how new jobs are
>created. What do we know about how this has happened in the past? What is the
>process whereby household/community/volunteer labor becomes paid labor in an
>increasingly commercial society? What do we know about the way in which
>bureaucratic organizations--in both the public and private sectors--create new
>job classifications. Our interest is not so much in classifying jobs by pay or
>skill level as in understanding the processes at a very micro level that lead
>to the creation of a new job, meaning a new kind of job. While it is easy
>enough to understand that increased sales will cause employers to add workers
>in an existing category, it is not so obvious how wholly new categories of
>paid work are created. Yet such job creation is required if present patterns
>of income distribution (that is entitlemenet through work) are to continue.
>There must be literature that deals with this but we do not know much about
>it. Can anyone out there help us.
> Thanks-- Anne Mayhew
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