Two central questions arise in assessing the effectiveness of school-to-work programs. The first concerns a major premise of school-to-work - namely that the unstable early labor market experiences of youths in the United States are detrimental to longer-term economic success. The second, more...

California has the highest Earned Income Tax (EITC) supplement to the federal EITC, with an 85% supplement rate. However, we find that despite the apparent generosity of the California EITC, there is no employment effect on less-skilled single mothers, in sharp contrast to the evidence of...

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...

We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (Rev Econ Stat 92:945-964, 2010) and Allegretto et al. (Ind Relat 50:205-240, 2011)...