Title

Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers: Bridging Research and Practice

Year

2009

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.

Contents

  1. Introduction / Maude Toussaint-Comeau and Bruce Meyer
  2. Bringing Together Policymakers, Researchers, and Practitioners to Discuss Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility / Maude Toussaint-Comeau
  3. Past Trends and Projections in Wages, Work, and Occupations in the United States / David Autor
  4. The Earned Income Tax Credit, Welfare Reform, and the Employment of Low-Skilled Single Mothers / Hilary Hoynes
  5. Reflections on Economic Mobility and Policy / Bruce D. Meyer
  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
  7. Financial Aid and Older Workers: Supporting the Nontraditional Student / Bridget Terry Long
  8. Can Residential Mobility Programs Improve Human Capital? Comparing Social Mechanisms in Two Different Programs / James Rosenbaum
  9. What Might Improve the Employment and Advancement Prospects of thePoor? / Harry J. Holzer
  10. What We Know about the Impacts of Workforce Investment Programs / Burt S. Barnow and Jeffrey A. Smith
  11. Correctional Programs in the Age of Mass Incarceration: What Do We Know about "What Works" / John H. Tyler and Jillian Berk
  12. Comparing Apples to Oranges When Evaluating Community-Based Programs and Services / Robert LaLonde

ISBN

9780880993524 (pbk.) ; 9780880993531 (cloth)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY; Poverty and income support; Low wage labor markets