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The Implementation Evaluation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Demonstration.
Zaveri, Heather Hesketh; Pisciotta, Caterina; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924867
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010609893
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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/10010643061
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Using TANF Funds to Support Subsidized Youth Employment: The 2010 Summer Youth Employment Initiative.
Rosenberg, Linda; Angus, Megan Hague; Pickens, Cassandra; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011
In summer 2010, state and local Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and workforce agencies partnered to plan and administer summer youth employment initiatives. This study examines qualitative data collected in 10 local sites across seven states to describe these partnerships,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643071
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783609
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783611
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783624
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545864
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011102425