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Do Temporary-Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009

Temporary-help jobs offer rapid entry into paid employment, but they are typically brief and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment. We utilize the unique structure of Detroit's welfare-to-work program to identify the effect of temporary-help jobs on labor market advancement....

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The Role of Labour Market Policy in Horizontal Co-ordination

Eberts, Randall W. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Labor exchange policy in the United States

Balducchi, David E. (ed.); Eberts, Randall W. (ed.); … - 2004

Overview of labor exchange policies and services / Randall W. Eberts and Harry J. Holzer -- Federal-state relations in labor exchange policy / David E. Balducchi and Alison J. Pasternak -- State and local labor exchange services / Neil Ridley and William A. Tracy -- Labor exchange performance...

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Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment

Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … (1971) general disequilibrium model but replaces the disequilibrium framework on the labor and product markets by a matching … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism …

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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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Effects of Decentralisation and Flexibility of Active Labour Market Policy on country-Level Employment Rates

Eberts, Randall W.; Giguere, Sylvain - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Estimated State and Local Fiscal Effects of the Nurse Family Partnership Program

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

This short paper estimates the state and local fiscal benefits of the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program. NFP provides nurse home visiting services to low-income first-time mothers. In addition to social benefits, NFP provides state and local fiscal benefits by reducing costs of social...

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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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Sensitivity Testing of Net Impact Estimates of Workforce Development Programs Using Administrative Data

Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2008

This paper addresses the question of whether administrative data sources, such as performance monitoring data, can be used for program evaluation purposes. It argues that under certain circumstances, such data can be used. In particular, program performance data that are routinely gathered and...

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The Effects of Doubling Instruction Efforts on Middle School Students' Achievement: Evidence from a Multiyear Regression-Discontinuity Design

Bartik, Timothy J.; Lachowska, Marta - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

We use a regression-discontinuity design to study the effects of double blocking sixth-grade students in reading and mathematics on their achievement across three years of middle school. To identify the effect of the intervention, we use sharp cutoffs in the test scores used to assign students...

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