employment services sector, which has been a particularly important area of domestic outsourcing. In addition, we examine … domestic outsourcing and its implications for employment patterns and to inconsistencies across data sets in the information …

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …

-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …

Link and Scott provide a statistical assessment of the employment growth associated with public support of R&D in small …, entrepreneurial firms through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. …

What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper … analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore ….S. employment landscape. The study uses a new panel data set of over 100,000 large private-sector firms across all industries and …

(inclinations of women to work for pay). Compositional shifts in education exerted a positive effect on women’s employment across … education was found in all decades, except the 1990s, when the effect was negative, depressing women’s employment. Further …This paper tracks factors contributing to the ups and downs in women’s employment from 1970 to 2010 using regression …