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Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan

Cortes, Kalena E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of seconddecile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …

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Increasing the Economic Development Benefits of Higher Education in Michigan

Bartik, Timothy J. - 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

to explain these shifts. Over the entire horizon, observable characteristics of students and institutions explain about …

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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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From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education

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

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly in lifetime earnings.

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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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Imagining the Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives

Muir, Dana M.; Turner, John A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Muir and Turner gather an international roster of pension experts who present what they think would be the ideal pension systems for their countries and why. Those countries include the United States, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland, and Japan.

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