Seninger here identifies and examines the analytical connections
between regional growth and development processes and the
characteristics of the regional labor force. According to the
author, although the idea that a region's economic progress is
partly determined by its labor resources is widely accepted, formal
economic analyses and policy prescriptions have not always taken
this link into consideration--and have therefore failed to generate
effective policies for encouraging growth. In an attempt to provide
a practical basis for such policies, Seninger draws upon the
regional development literature, presenting alternative models in
terms of strategies and tactics for policy practice. Scholars and
practitioners of regional development will find this a coherent,
systematic view of the analytical and policy linkages between
economic development, employment, and the work force--one which can
serve as the foundation for successful policy design and program
implementation.
Seninger's emphasis throughout is on the qualitative, human
resource characteristics of a region's work force and its active
role in the growth and development process. The applied policy
focus of the discussion places the role of labor resources in the
context of labor market institutions, theories of regional change,
and a region's economic development path. Arguing that the
prevailing economic ideology of export-led growth and resource
mobility is responsible for labor policies which are reactions to
growth rather than initiators of growth, Seninger attempts to
provide a workable foundation for policies which both utilize a
region's labor resource advantages and extend the income/employment
growth objective to other goals, including employment stability and
enhanced job quality.
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