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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 …
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The Economics of Sports
Kern, William S. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
The contributors to this book, all economists at the forefront of the movement to study the economics of sports, show …
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Economics, Economists, and Public Policy
Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay
Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay
Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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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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Search Theory and Unemployment
Woodbury, Stephen A.; Davidson, Carl - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Role of Workforce Programs
Barnow, Burt S.; Hobbie, Richard A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book examines the nature of the workforce development and UI policy decisions made nationwide in response to the recession, state and local administrators’ perspectives on the policy developments and economic challenges, and implementation of key Recovery Act provisions, with a particular...
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