G<sc>oldstein</sc> H. A., L<sc>owe</sc> N. and D<sc>onegan</sc> M. Transitioning to the new economy: individual, regional and intermediation influences on workforce retraining outcomes, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The problem of helping workers employed in older manufacturing sectors shift to jobs in growing, high-technology...

There are a number of alternative techniques for developing regional industry employment projections. Selecting the most appropriate technique involves trade-offs among cost, data requirements, comprehensibility, versatility, theoretical validity, reliability, and accuracy. Single-equation...

Federal transportation officials assert that labor protections in the Urban Mass Transportation Act inhibit the propensity of local transit agencies to contract with private firms for services. The authors present results from a survey of a large sample of transit managers and econometric...

Misclassification is found in many of the variables used in social sciences and, in practice, tends to be ignored in statistical analyses, and this can lead to biased results. This paper shows how to correct for differential misclassification in multilevel models and illustrates the extent to...