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Maximum Score Estimates of the Determinants of Residential Mobility: Implications for the Value of Residential Attachment and Neighborhood Amenities

Bartik, Timothy J.; Butler, J.S.; Liu, Jin Tan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1990

. This WTP based on mobility behavior is much greater than WTP estimates derived using hedonic methods, and is argued to be … previously preferred the original location, the disturbance term in mobility models is unlikely to follow the simple … applications of maximum score techniques. Maximum score estimation of our residential mobility model yields similar parameter …

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The Job Search Intensity Supply Curve: How Labor Market Conditions Affect Job Search Effort

Schwartz, Jeremy - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open positions (as measured by the Help Wanted OnLine Index) more than tripled. The weak labor market prompted an unprecedented extension in the length of time in which a claimant can...

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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks, and then examine regional and...

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Military Retention Incentives: Evidence from the Air Force Selective Reenlistment Bonus

Joffrion, Justin; Wozny, Nathan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

The limited lateral entry and rigid pay structure for U.S. military personnel present challenges in retaining skilled individuals who have attractive options in the civilian labor market. One tool the services use to address this challenge is the Selective Reenlistment Bonus (SRB), which offers...

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Of Heart and Mind: Essays in Honor of Sar A. Levitan

Mangum, Garth (contributor); Mangum, Stephen (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The essays in this volume, authored by close friends, associates and students, pay tribute to Sar Levitan and the enduring mark he left on the field of social policy. The book is loosely organized around the method of analysis taught and practiced by Levitan: identifying problems through the...

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Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers: bridging Research and Practice

Toussaint-Comeau, Maude (contributor); … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

designed to help disadvantaged segments of our population overcome the obstacles in their path to upeard economic mobility. …

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Older and Out of Work: Jobs and Social Insurance for a Changing Economy

Eberts, Randall W. (contributor); … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Policy experts advance our understanding of the labor market experiences of older workers while pointing our that current workforce programs often leave this growing population underserved.

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Unemployment Insurance Policy in New England: Background and Issues

Tannenwald, Robert; O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997

Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at least once during the past 35 years. Under such circumstances, states are required by law to raise UI taxes to replenish their trust funds and to pay off their debts to the federal...

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Alternative Measures of State UI Systems

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Tannenwald, Robert; Huang, Wei-Jang - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000

Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit generosity, tax cost, and adherence to the experience-rating principle are influenced by the relative economic conditions of states. Such comparisons thereby obscure underlying...

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Congressional Testimony on the Effectiveness oof the Employment Service in Aiding UI Claimants

Jacobson, Louis S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1991

This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof. Arnold Katz of the University of Pittsburgh using data on over 100,000 individuals who registered with the Pennsylvania ES between 1978 and 1987, and an even larger sample of...

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