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Human Resource Economics and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Vernon M. Briggs Jr.

Whalen, Charles J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

students and colleagues, explore and extend his work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor …

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The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom

Trachtman, Joel P. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Trachtman examines the welfare economics, political economy, and legal experience in international economic migrationm, and on the basis of his analysis, suggests the structure of a multilateral framework agreement on internatinoal economic migration.

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A Second Look at Enrollment Changes after the Kalamazoo Promise

Hershbein, Brad J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013

While previous research has documented how the Kalamazoo Promise, the most prominent and generous place-based college scholarship program, increased enrollment in Kalamazoo Public Schools, this paper qualifies and quantifies the characteristics of students who were induced to enter—or...

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How Do the Effects of Local Growth on Employment Rates Vary With Initial Labor Market Conditions

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

This paper examines how the effects of increased employment growth on a metropolitan area’s employment to population … are in higher employment rates. The empirical estimates suggest that the effectiveness of employment growth in increasing … the employment to population ratio is lower in metropolitan areas with “tight” labor markets. In addition, some estimates …

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The Economics of Work and Family

Kimmel, Jean (contributor); Hoffman, Emily P. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Kimmel and Hoffman present a set of topical, non-technical papers authored by nationally known experts in this field. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to parents successfully integrating work and family...

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Social Security and Divorce Decisions

Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

People who have divorced are entitled to Social Security spousal benefits if their marriages lasted at least ten years. This paper uses 1985-1995 Vital Statistics data and the 2008-2011 American Community Surveys to analyze how this rule affects divorce decisions. I find evidence that the...

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The Ups and Downs in Women's Employment: Shifting Composition or Behavior from 1970 to 2010?

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargement to estimate its effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved timevarying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants from the “new” and “candidate” member countries...

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Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures

Barnow, Burt S.; Trutko, John; Piatak, Jaclyn Schede - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.

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Job Accessibility and the Employment and School Enrollment of Teenagers

Ihlanfeldt, Keith - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Ihlanfeldt presents data that strongly support the "spatial mismatch hypothesis" for the high unemployment rate of disadvantaged teens. This theory, which the author thoroughly outlines in this work, asserts that the suburbanization of low-skill jobs and continued housing market segregation have...

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What Proportion of Children Stay in the Same Location as Adults, and How Does This Vary Across Location and Groups?

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009

This paper provides new information on what proportion of individuals spend their adult work lives in their childhood metropolitan area or state. I also examine how this proportion varies across different demographic groups, and with the size and growth rate of the metropolitan area. I find that...

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