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 …

This paper examines the consequences of initial periods of churning,' floundering about,' or mobility' in the labor … school-to-work programs--would be likely to lead to better adult labor market outcomes. Our interpretation of the results is … that there is at best modest evidence linking early job market stability to better labor market outcomes. We find that …

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