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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Role of Workforce Programs

Barnow, Burt S.; Hobbie, Richard A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book examines the nature of the workforce development and UI policy decisions made nationwide in response to the recession, state and local administrators’ perspectives on the policy developments and economic challenges, and implementation of key Recovery Act provisions, with a particular...

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Search Theory and Unemployment

Woodbury, Stephen A.; Davidson, Carl - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia

Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants.

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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...

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Short-Time Compensation as a Tool to Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence on the U.S. Experience during the Recent Recession

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013

start of the recent recession only 17 states offered short-time compensation (STC)—pro-rated unemployment benefits for … in STC as a tool for mitigating unemployment during downturns. New federal legislation enacted in 2012 will encourage …

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The Ups and Downs in Women's Employment: Shifting Composition or Behavior from 1970 to 2010?

Smith, Kristin E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

This paper tracks factors contributing to the ups and downs in women’s employment from 1970 to 2010 using regression decompositions focusing on whether changes are due to shifts in the means (composition of women) or due to shifts in coefficients (inclinations of women to work for pay)....

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Legal U.S. Immigration: Influences on Gender, Age, and Skill Composition

Greenwood, Michael J.; McDowell, John M. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Greenwood and McDowell develop empirical models that enable them to examine the influence of two important determinants - source country characteristics and U.S. immigration policy - on the gender, age, and skills of immigrants coming to America.

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The Economics of Work and Family

Kimmel, Jean (contributor); Hoffman, Emily P. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Kimmel and Hoffman present a set of topical, non-technical papers authored by nationally known experts in this field. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to parents successfully integrating work and family...

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Methodology for Adjusting GPRA Workforce Development Program Performance Targets for the Effects of Business Cycles

Bartik, Timothy J.; Eberts, Randall W.; Huang, Wei-Jang - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009

program years, adjusted for unemployment rates, are driven by the economic assumptions of the President’s Budget Request for … describe the methodology used to estimate the relationship between unemployment rates and workforce program performance targets …. The second is to describe the procedures used to adjust the GPRA performance targets for changes in unemployment rates …

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Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition?" Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 Fertility Decline

Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie; Hershbein, Brad J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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