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Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative

Bellotti, Jeanne; Rosenberg, Linda; Sattar, Samina; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This report examines implementation of the 2009 summer youth employment initiative, which placed more than 314,000 youth in summer jobs. As part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), states received $1.2 billion to fund employment and training targeted to disadvantaged...

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Pre-Design Study for the Evaluation of Recovery Act Green Jobs, Health Care, and Other High Growth Competitive Grants.

Needels, Karen; Mastri, Annalisa - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This white paper provides guidance to the U.S. Department of Labor on different methodologies for evaluating grant …

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Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative.

Bellotti, Jeanne; Rosenberg, Linda; Sattar, Samina; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010609893

Evidence Scan of Work Experience Programs.

Sattar, Samina - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This report presents evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that include work experience as a strategy to improve employment outcomes for people with barriers to employment. The report reviews 26 years of rigorous research gathering information from 27 evaluations. The author...

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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay

Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995

We estimate the returns to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) for university faculty, and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on faculty at a Big Ten university (ours), we estimate...

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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Houseman, Susan N.; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Erickcek, George A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate …

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Aggregate Effects in Local Labor Markets of Supply and Demand Shocks

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti …-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or … different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population …

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The Effects of Local Labor Demand on Individual Labor Market Outcomes for Diffrerent Demographic Groups and the Poor

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Economists have traditionally had a keen interest in the effects of overall labor demand on the economic well-being of … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … "natural laboratory" for determining the true effects of overall labor demand. These recent studies generally find that …

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An Impact Analysis of Labor Market Programs in Hungary

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995

This paper presents estimates of the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on reemployment and earnings in the Republic of Hungary during the early phase of post-Socialist economic restructuring. Since assignment to programs resulted in groups with vastly dissimilar...

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Preliminary Evidence on Impacts of Active Labor Programs in Hungary and Poland

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of participants in retraining, public works, wage subsidies, self …

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