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Book SynopsisBased on conference papers, this volume focuses on employment as it relates to education, worker mobility, crime, public finance, welfare, and relationships between the public and private sectors as a key factor in resolving urban problems.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Connections between urban problems and jobs: welfare reform and employment - what we know, and what we still need to know, Greg Duncan; legal and illegal work - crime, work and unemployment, Jeffrey Fagan; spatial mismatch - housing, transportation and employment in regional perspective, Roberto M. Fernandez; schools and the world of work, James E. Rosenbaum. Part 2 Organizational co-ordination: urban fiscal problems - co-ordinating actions among governments, Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky; public-private partnerships amd the ""crisis"" of local government, Jerome Rothenberg. Part 3 Searching for solutions: what policymakers need from the research community - views from the frontline; an urban research agenda.
