Extensive interviews with school-to-career (STC) practitioners in California are used to study the effectiveness of the STC system that was created in California by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA). The interviews aimed not only to uncover evidence on the effectiveness of STC...

Theory predicts that minimum wages will reduce employer-provided on-the-job training designed to improve workers' skills on the current job, but may increase the amount of training that workers obtain to qualify for a job. We estimate the effects of minimum wages on the amount of both types of...

We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...