report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In … poverty and other labor market outcomes. Once we account for this selection, much of the evidence that state and federal EZs … that EZs - and especially state EZs - have for the most part been ineffective at reducing urban poverty or improving labor …

improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the … discuss new evidence of labor market networks that are to some extent stratified by race, which may help explain racial … urban blacks, and because, in the case of MTO, the role of labor market networks was weakened. Finally, we discuss policies …

We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data … taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market … neighborhood-level variation in labor market networks. We find evidence suggesting that smaller and less centralized schools, and …

We measure the changing efficacy of neighborhood-based labor market networks, across the business cycle, in helping … therefore focus on a measure of the strength of the labor market networks that includes not only the number of employed … that local labor market networks increase re-employment following mass layoffs, and in particular, that networks serve to …

temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor markets, using data assembled from the sequence of Current Population …