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Health Insurance Tax Credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Health Insurance Coverage of Single Mothers

Cebi, Merve; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Temporary Help Service Firms' Use of Employer Tax Credits: Implications for Disadvantaged Workers' Labor Market Outcomes

Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

Temporary help services (THS) firms are increasing their hiring of disadvantaged individuals and claiming more subsidies for doing so. Do these subsidies—the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WtW)—create incentives that improve employment outcomes for THS...

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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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Understanding Wages: Structure, Uncertainty, Inequality

Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Using Performance Indicators to Improve the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995

This paper argues that it is feasible to develop good indicators of the performance of a particular welfare-to-work program, office, or contractor. Performance indicators can motivate local offices, contractors, and staff to be more effective in achieving the program's goals. Performance...

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Of Heart and Mind: Essays in Honor of Sar A. Levitan

Mangum, Garth (contributor); Mangum, Stephen (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The essays in this volume, authored by close friends, associates and students, pay tribute to Sar Levitan and the enduring mark he left on the field of social policy. The book is loosely organized around the method of analysis taught and practiced by Levitan: identifying problems through the...

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Food Stamp Participation among Adult-Only Households

Ribar, David C.; Edelhoch, Marilyn; Liu, Qiduan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009

Several recent changes in the Food Stamp Program have been directed toward households without children. Some, including new work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs), were intended to promote self-sufficiency, while others, including easier application and...

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The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies?

Partridge, Mark D.; Rickman, Dan S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed...

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