Measuring the Employment Effects of Regulation
Where Did the Jobs Go?
Published on 23. August 1996
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-56720-070-6 (ISBN)
Description
An increasing amount of attention has been focused on the employment effect of governmental regulation. Controversy over the implementation and impacts of governmental rules are now central to current public policy debates relating to employment and labor markets. A new policy framework for regulation is needed to make the regulatory decision-making process more responsive to the requirements for economic growth and to the employment effects of regulation. The President and Congress need to provide effective oversight of the process, from the perspective of both a single regulation and a government-wide approach to regulatory planning. Regulatory agencies need to use state-of-the-art analytical tools so that they can better determine the employment effects of their regulatory actions. This book presents a common-sense, albeit highly sophisticated and technical, approach to improving the technical soundness, credibility, and transparency of the regulatory decision-making process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
387 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56720-070-6 (9781567200706)
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Person
NEAL S. ZANK is a consultant and Research Associate at the Center for Global Management and Research at the George Washington University. He is co-author of Reforming Financial Systems: Policy Changes and Privatization (Greenwood, 1991) and Welfare System Reform: Coordinating Federal, State, and Local Public Assistance Programs (Greenwood, 1993), and has written numerous articles on job training, foreign aid, and international economic issues. Mr. Zank was Associate Director of the National Commission for Employment Policy (1990-1993), and a staff member for two Presidential commissions and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Content
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction A Brief History of Federal Regulation of Business and Society The Economic and Employment Effects of Regulation How Employment Effects Are Addressed in the Regulatory Development Process The Regulatory Review Process Approaches for Reform: Addressing Employment Effects in Regulatory Decision Making Appendix A: Estimating Employment Effects Using Computational General Equilibrium Models Appendix B: Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993--Regulatory Planning and Review Appendix C: Excerpts from "Economic Analysis of Federal Regulations under Executive Order 12866" - January 11, 1996 Appendix D: Bibliography of Studies on the Effects of Regulation Bibliography Index