The Job Guarantee Design and Human Rights

Sep 22, 2017

Overview

This panel explores ways to concretize a “right to dignified work” in the context of a Job Guarantee program. Who selects the jobs? What are the eligibility and participation requirements? How can we design JG programs that address deeper social problems related to poverty and inequality?

Participants

Speaker

David Stein

UCLA

Speaker

Pavlina Tcherneva

Associate Professor of Economics & Economics Department Director

Bard College

Speaker

Mark Paul

Duke University

Speaker

Jonathan Crock

Leiden University

Moderator

Susan Feiner

University of Southern Maine