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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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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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Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services
Dey, Matthew; Houseman, Susan; Polivka, Anne - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006
professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major … manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 ….5 percentage points of the annual growth rate from 1989 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2004. Although multifactor productivity measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116768
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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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The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom
Trachtman, Joel P. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
migration. …
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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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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 ratio varies with the initial tightness of the metropolitan area’s labor market. This examination is relevant to evaluating the benefits of local economic development policies...
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The Distribution of College Graduate Debt, 1990 to 2008: A Decomposition Approach
Hershbein, Brad J.; Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
Despite tremendous recent interest in the subject of student debt by both researchers and policymakers, little is known about how the distribution of college graduate debt has been evolving and what factors can explain it. We use National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data from 1990 through...
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Basic Skills Training at Harbor Industries
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Anderson, William - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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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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