Labor Markets in Recession and Recovery
October 22-23, 2010
Recent recipients of Upjohn Institute-sponsored grants presented research on this year's theme - Labor Markets in Recession and Recovery. The conference included research on the following issues:
- Employment tax credits
- Employment and high-skill immigration
- Pensions and retirement income in the economic crisis
- Unemployment insurance and low-skill workers
- Employment dynamics, long-term unemployment, and wage losses following displacement
Papers will be posted as they become available.
- Employment Tax Credits: Evidence from the States
- Robert Chirinko, University of Illinois at Chicago (presenter)
- Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Employment, Innovation, and High-Skill Immigration
- Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame (presenter)
- George Borjas, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- The Economic Crisis and Retirement Income
- Phillip Levine, Wellesley College (presenter)
- Courtney Coile, Wellesley College
- The Persistence of Employee 401(k) Contributions
- John Turner, Pension Policy Center (presenter)
- Leslie Muller, Aquinas College
- Policy paper version Working paper version
- Unemployment Insurance and Low-Skilled Single Working Mothers after Welfare Reform: New Evidence from the SIPP
- Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan
- Policy paper version Working paper version
- Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capital
- Luojia Hu, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Christopher Taber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Working paper version Published version
- Hours Adjustments, Job Quality, and the Effects of Labor Market Policies: A Three-County Study of Retail Jobs
- Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles
- Françoise Carré, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Policy paper version Working paper version
- Sectoral Adjustments in the Financial Services Industry: Using Administrative Data to Understand Firm and Employment Dynamics in New Jersey
- Aaron Fichtner, Assistant Commissioner, Labor Planning and Analysis
- New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
- Options for Addressing Long-Term Unemployment as the Economy Recovers
- Ralph E. Smith, Former Chief of Employment and Income Security Policy
- Congressional Budget Office
- Policy paper version Working paper version