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Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences

Gershenson, Seth - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title 1 schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in consecutive years. Difference-in-difference estimates of the effect of failing AYP in the...

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Program Applicants as a Comparison Group in Evaluating Training Programs: Theory and a Test

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

This volume introduces a number of issues critical to the topic the economics of education including school financing …

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An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools

Eberts, Randall W.; Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

competition and new innovations in the provision of education, the evidence from this study implies that they will need to make up …

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The Returns to Education and Basic Skills Training for Individuals with Poor Health or Disability

Hollenbeck, Kevin; Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

This paper examines linkages between disability and health status and the returns to education and basic skills … equations with education and basic skills training among the independent variables. The NALS data set allows us to control for … that the returns to education for individuals with a disability or poor health are positive, although of moderate size and …

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Workplace Education Programs in Small- and Medium-Sized Michigan Firms

Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1992

This paper presents a systematic, baseline picture of workplace education programs in small and medium-sized businesses … offering workplace education programs, what are the characteristics of the programs being provided, and what are the impacts of … opportunity to receive education in basic skills through their workplace. …

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Postsecondary Education as Triage: Returns to Academic and Technical Programs

Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1992

experiences. In particular, it examines differences between students who have pursued technical education programs from those who … have pursued academic programs and from those individuals who have not pursued any type of postsecondary education …

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Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences Between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians

Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994

rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …

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The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings

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

This volume examines WIA’s objectives and the evidence on program performance and impact. The chapters are organized into five general areas: 1) understanding WIA, 2) program implementation, 3) performance management, 4) impact evaluations, and 5) future evaluation choices.

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America’s Human Capital Paradox

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

It is widely recognized that human capital is essential to sustaining a competitive economy at high and rising living standards. Yet acceptance of persistent high unemployment, stagnant wages, and other indicators of declining job quality suggests that policymakers and employers undervalue human...

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Short-Time Compensation as a Tool to Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence on the U.S. Experience during the Recent Recession

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013

During the recent recession, workers were eligible for UI benefits only if they were laid off in most states. At the start of the recent recession only 17 states offered short-time compensation (STC)—pro-rated unemployment benefits for workers whose hours are temporarily reduced for economic...

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