Publication Date
8-28-2009
DOI
10.17848/9781441631992
Abstract
The contributors to this book provide a provocative assessment of the effectiveness of various policies and practices designed to help disadvantaged segments of our population overcome the obstacles in their path to upward economic mobility.
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Download 1. Introduction / Maude Toussaint-Comeau and Bruce D. Meyer (266 KB)
Download 2. Bringing Together Policymakers, Researchers, and Practitioners to Discuss Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility / Maude Toussaint-Comeau (338 KB)
Download 3. Past Trends and Projections in Wages, Work, and Occupations in the United States / David Autor (286 KB)
Download 4. The Earned Income Tax Credit, Welfare Reform, and the Employment of Low-Skilled Single Mothers / Hilary Hoynes (314 KB)
Download 5. Reflections on Economic Mobility and Policy / Bruce D. Meyer (279 KB)
Download 6. Helping Low-Wage Workers Persist in Education Programs: Lessons from Research on Welfare Training Programs and Two Promising Community College Strategies / Lashawn Richburg-Hayes (299 KB)
Download 7. Financial Aid and Older Workers: Supporting the Nontraditional Student / Bridget Terry Long (291 KB)
Download 8. Can Residential Mobility Programs Improve Human Capital? Comparing Social Mechanisms in Two Different Programs / James Rosenbaum (309 KB)
Download 9. What Might Improve the Employment and Advancement Prospects of the Poor? / Harry J. Holzer (277 KB)
Download 10. What We Know about the Impacts of Workforce Investment Programs / Burt S. Barnow and Jeffrey A. Smith (284 KB)
Download 11. Correctional Programs in the Age of Mass Incarceration: What Do We Know about "What Works" / John H. Tyler and Jillian Berk (296 KB)
Download 12. Comparing Apples to Oranges When Evaluating Community-Based Programs and Services / Robert LaLonde (273 KB)
ISBN
9780880993531 (cloth) ; 9780880993524 (pbk.) ; 9781441631992 (ebook)
Subject Areas
LABOR MARKET ISSUES; Wages, health insurance and other benefits; Inequality; UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Poverty and income support; Low wage labor markets
Citation
Toussaint-Comeau, Maude and Bruce D. Meyer, eds. 2009. Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers: Bridging Research and Practice. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/9781441631992
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