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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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Employment Opportunity Pilot Project: Analysis of Program Impacts

Brown, Randall; Burghardt, John; Cavin, Edward; Long, David - Mathematica Policy Research - 1983

The Employment Opportunity Pilot Project (EOPP) was instituted to determine whether a program that provided job-search assistance and subsidized employment and training could succeed in increasing the employment and, hence, reducing the welfare dependence of adults in low-income families with...

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Trends in the Composition and Outcomes of Young Social Security Disability Awardees

Ben-Shalom, Yonatan; Stapleton, David - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

This paper provides new descriptive information on trends in the composition and outcomes of young (under age 40) Social Security Disability (SSD) beneficiaries first awarded benefits between 1996 and 2007, particularly differences between disabled workers and disabled adult children (DAC), and...

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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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Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France and Belgium

Abraham, Katherine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...

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