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Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings from the Demonstration States.
Kirby, Gretchen; Sullivan, Margaret; Potamites, Elizabeth; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) are self-managed accounts of $3,000 offered to select recipients of Unemployment Insurance benefits to support individual choice and control in reemployment services and promote a quick return to work. PRAs can be used to purchase training, intensive career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010923463
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Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program.
Clary, Elizabeth; Ladinsky, Jonathan; Angus, Megan Hague; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
This report presents findings from an evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program. Authorized under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, the program serves migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents by offering services such as case management, skills training, and related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924240
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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365
Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...
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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370
Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014
Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...
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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363
Clemens, Michael - 2014
Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...
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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development
Clemens, Michael - 2010
globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …
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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development
Clemens, Michael - 2009
Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528573
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Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program
Clary, Elizabeth; Ladinsky, Jonathan; Angus, Megan Hague; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
This report presents findings from an evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program. Authorized under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, the program serves migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents by offering services such as case management, skills training, and related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122028
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Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings from the Demonstration States
Kirby, Gretchen; Sullivan, Margaret; Potamites, Elizabeth; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) are self-managed accounts of $3,000 offered to select recipients of Unemployment Insurance benefits to support individual choice and control in reemployment services and promote a quick return to work.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011102492
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A note for “On an inventory model for deteriorating items and time-varying demand”
Chu, Peter; Chen, Patrick S. - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 53 (2001) 2, pp. 297-307
In this technical note we discuss a paper of Benkherouf and Balkhi recently published in Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. They established the model for deteriorating items with increasing demand and proved the uniqueness for the solution of the system of first partial derivatives....
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