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The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Minorities and Women over Three Decades: 1973-2003

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...

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Counting Working-Age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement

Houtenville, Andrew J. (contributor); … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book provides a systematic review of what current statistics and data on working-age people with disabilities can and cannot tell us, and how the quality of the data can be improved to better inform policymakers, advocates, analysts, service providers, administrators, and others interested...

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America’s Human Capital Paradox

Kochan, Thomas A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2012

standards. Yet acceptance of persistent high unemployment, stagnant wages, and other indicators of declining job quality …

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Women's Work after War

Kleykamp, Meredith A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women...

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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

This book pays tribute to Vernon Briggs and his enduring mark on the study of humna resources. The chapters, by his students and colleagues, explore and extend his work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor markets. Students and scholars of economics, public policy,...

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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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Banking the Furnace: Essays on the Economics of Discrimination

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

This book explores the effects of discrimination on the economic outcomes of various societal groups.

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Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy of Redistribution

Neill, Jon (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book provides a very useful introduction to methodologies for measuring inequality, a comprehensive overview of … changes in inequality which have occurred in the United States, and an informative discussion of a variety of policy …

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Earnings Inequality in Germany

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to … earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978 and 1988, a reduction in the dispersion of earnings among workers in the … inequality in Germany and those in the United States. Both the high quality of the training received by non-college-bound German …

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Improving the Implementation and Effectiveness of Out-of-School-Time Tutoring

Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Burch, Patricia; Good, Annalee; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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