2012
An Analysis of Risk-Taking Behavior for Public Defined Benefit Pension Plans, Nancy Mohan and Ting Zhang
2011
Including Jobs in Benefit-Cost Analysis, Timothy J. Bartik
Earnings Benefits of Tulsa's Pre-K Program for Different Income Groups, Timothy J. Bartik, William Gormley, and Shirley Adelstein
Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Labor Supply of Married Women, Merve Cebi
The Efficiency of a Group-Specific Mandated Benefit Revisited: The Effect of Infertility Mandates, Joanna N. Lahey
The Persistence of Employee 401(k) Contributions Over a Major Stock Market Cycle: Evidence on the Limited Power of Inertia on Savings Behavior, Leslie A. Muller and John A. Turner
Benefit Payment Costs of Unemployment Insurance Modernization: Estimates Based on Kentucky Administrative Data, Christopher J. O'Leary
Unemployment Insurance and Low-Educated Single Working Mothers Before and After Welfare Reform, H. Luke Shaefer and Liyun Wu
The Secular Rise in Unemployment Insurance Exhaustions and What Can Be Done about It, Ralph E. Smith
2010
The Employment and Fiscal Effects of Michigan's MEGA Tax Credit Program, Timothy J. Bartik and George A. Erickcek
Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan, Kalena E. Cortes
Health Insurance Availability and Entrepreneurship, Philip DeCicca
Mass Privatisation and the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis: Is There Really a Relationship?, John S. Earle and Scott G. Gehlbach
Offshoring and the State of American Manufacturing, Susan N. Houseman, Christopher Kurz, Paul A. Lengermann, and Benjamin J. Mandel
Women's Work after War, Meredith A. Kleykamp
The Influence of Retiree Health Benefits on Retirement Patterns, James Marton and Stephen A. Woodbury
Policies for Displaced Workers: An American Perspective, Christopher J. O'Leary
Employment and Training Policy in the United States during the Economic Crisis, Christopher J. O'Leary and Randall W. Eberts
2009
Distributional Effects of Early Childhood Programs and Business Incentives and Their Implications for Policy, Timothy J. Bartik
Economic Development Benefits of Preschool Expansion in Kalamazoo County, Timothy J. Bartik
Estimated State and Local Fiscal Effects of the Nurse Family Partnership Program, Timothy J. Bartik
How Do the Effects of Local Growth on Employment Rates Vary With Initial Labor Market Conditions?, Timothy J. Bartik
How Policymakers Should Deal with the Delayed Benefits of Early Childhood Programs, Timothy J. Bartik
What Proportion of Children Stay in the Same Location as Adults, and How Does This Vary Across Location and Groups?, Timothy J. Bartik
What Should Michigan Be Doing to Promote Long-Run Economic Development?, Timothy J. Bartik
Methodology for Adjusting GPRA Workforce Development Program Performance Targets for the Effects of Business Cycles, Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts, and Wei-Jang Huang
Estimating a Performance Standards Adjustment Model for Workforce Programs that Provides Timely Feedback and Uses Data from Only One State, Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts, and Kenneth J. Kline
Health Insurance Tax Credits and Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Earning Single Mothers, Merve Cebi and Stephen A. Woodbury
What Do We Know about Contracting Out in the United States? Evidence from Household and Establishment Surveys, Matthew Dey, Susan N. Houseman, and Anne E. Polivka
Lessons Learned from a State-Funded Workplace Literacy Program, Kevin Hollenbeck and Bridget F. Timmeney
Food Stamp Participation among Adult-Only Households, David Christopher Ribar, Marilyn J. Edelhoch, and Qiduan Liu
What Should EDA Fund? Developing a Model for Pre-Assessment of Economic Development Investments, Brad R. Watts, George A. Erickcek, Jacob Duritsky, Kevin O'Brien, Claudette Robey, and Jim Robey
2008
The Revitalization of Older Industrial Cities: A Review Essay of Retooling for Growth, Timothy J. Bartik
Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis, J. David Brown and John S. Earle
Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Scott G. Gehlbach
Is There a Role for Public Support of Incumbent Worker On-the-Job Training?, Kevin Hollenbeck
Sensitivity Testing of Net Impact Estimates of Workforce Development Programs Using Administrative Data, Kevin Hollenbeck
2007
Higher Education, the Health Care Industry, and Metropolitan Regional Economic Development: What Can "Eds & Meds" Do for the Economic Fortunes of a Metro Area's Residents?, Timothy J. Bartik and George A. Erickcek
The Productivity Effects of Privatization in Ukraine: Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data, 1989-2005, J. David Brown and John S. Earle
Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003, John S. Earle and Álmos Telegdy
Temporary Help Service Firms' Use of Employer Tax Credits: Implications for Disadvantaged Workers' Labor Market Outcomes, Sarah Hamersma and Carolyn J. Heinrich
Displacement, Asymmetric Information, and Heterogeneous Human Capital, Luojia Hu and Christopher Taber
Reemployment and Earnings Recovery Among Older Unemployment Insurance Claimants, Christopher J. O'Leary and Randall W. Eberts
2006
Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, R. I. Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Álmos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan, and Alexandru Voicu
Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Volodymyr Vakhitov
Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services, Matthew Dey, Susan N. Houseman, and Anne E. Polivka
Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation, John S. Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter
Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Productivity Measurement in U.S. Manufacturing, Susan N. Houseman
Retiree Health Benefits and Retirement, James Marton and Stephen A. Woodbury
Local Market Scale and the Pattern of Job Changes Among Young Men, Christopher H. Wheeler
2005
Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from Random Assignments, David H. Autor and Susan N. Houseman
Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?, David H. Autor and Susan N. Houseman
Evaluating Job Training in Two Chinese Cities, Benu Bidani, Chor-ching Goh, Niels-Hugo Blunch, and Christopher J. O'Leary
Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Álmos Telegdy
The Productivity Effects of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Álmos Telegdy
Single Mothers, Social Capital, and Work-Family Conflict, Teresa Ciabattari
Refundable Tax Credits for Health Insurance: The Sensitivity of Simulated Impacts to Assumed Behavior, David W. Emmons, Eva Madly, and Stephen A. Woodbury
The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti, and Jonathan Wadsworth
Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia, Anton Nivorozhkin and Eugenity Nivorozhkin
Do Job Search Rules and Reemployment Services Reduce Insured Unemployment?, Christopher J. O'Leary and Stephen A. Wandner
Health, Wealth and Workforce Exit: Disability Insurance and Individual Accounts, Jason S. Seligman
Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity Markets, and Retirement Savings, Jason S. Seligman and Jeffrey Brian Wenger
Welfare Reform, Saving, and Vehicle Ownership: Do Asset Limits and Vehicle Exemptions Matter?, James X. Sullivan
Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform, Erdal Tekin
2004
Work and Retirement Plans among Older Americans, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000, Daniela Andrén, John S. Earle, and Dana Sapatoru
Incentive Solutions, Timothy J. Bartik
Increasing the Economic Development Benefits of Higher Education in Michigan, Timothy J. Bartik
Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition, J. David Brown and John S. Earle
Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition, J. David Brown and John S. Earle
What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Dana Lup
Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Álmos Telegdy
Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance on the Budapest Stock Exchange: Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Goulash?, John S. Earle, Csaba Kucsera, and Álmos Telegdy
Small Cities Blues: Looking for Growth Factors in Small and Medium-Sized Cities, George A. Erickcek and Hannah J. McKinney
Some Reflections on the Use of Administrative Data to Estimate the Net Impacts of Workforce Programs in Washington State, Kevin Hollenbeck
Using Administrative Data for Workforce Development Program Evaluation, Kevin Hollenbeck
Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations for Planning Implementation, Christopher J. O'Leary and Randall W. Eberts
2003
Local Economic Development Policies, Timothy J. Bartik
Thoughts on American Manufacturing Decline and Revitalization, Timothy J. Bartik
The Productivity Consequences of Two Ergonomic Interventions, Kelly DeRango, Benjamin C. Amick, Michelle Robertson, Ted Rooney, Anne Moore, and Lianna Bazzani
Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999, John S. Earle, Andrew Spicer, and Klara Sabirianova Peter
A New WPRS Profiling Model for Michigan, Randall W. Eberts and Christopher J. O'Leary
Net Impact Estimates of the Workforce Development System in Washington State, Kevin Hollenbeck
Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses, Christopher J. O'Leary, Paul T. Decker, and Stephen A. Wandner
2002
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program, Joshua David Angrist and Kevin Lang
Evaluating the Impacts of Local Economic Development Policies On Local Economic Outcomes: What Has Been Done and What is Doable?, Timothy J. Bartik
Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Labor Market Spillover Effects of Welfare Reform, Timothy J. Bartik
Thinking about Local Living Wage Requirements, Timothy J. Bartik
Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition, J. David Brown and John S. Earle
The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants, John S. Earle and J. David Brown
A Spoonful of Sugar: Privatization and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic, John S. Earle and Scott G. Gehlbach
Information Technology, Organizational Form, and Transition to the Market, John S. Earle, Ugo Pagano, and Maria Lesi
How Late to Pay? Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia, John S. Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter
Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises, John S. Earle and Álmos Telegdy
The Role of Partnerships in Economic Development and Labor Markets in the United States, Randall W. Eberts and George A. Erickcek
Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Achievement in Michigan, Randall W. Eberts and Kevin Hollenbeck
A Frontline Decision Support System for Georgia Career Centers, Randall W. Eberts and Christopher J. O'Leary
The Effects of Temporary Services and Contracting Out on Low-Skilled Workers: Evidence from Auto Suppliers, Hospitals, and Public Schools, George A. Erickcek, Susan N. Houseman, and Arne L. Kalleberg
Income Replacement and Reemployment Programs in Michigan and Neighboring States, Stephen A. Woodbury
2001
The Effect of Child Care Costs on the Labor Force Participation and Welfare Recipiency of Single Mothers: Implications for Welfare Reform, Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel
Black-White Segregation, Discrimination, and Home Ownership, Kelly DeRango
An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools, Randall W. Eberts and Kevin Hollenbeck
The Returns to Education and Basic Skills Training for Individuals with Poor Health or Disability, Kevin Hollenbeck and Jean Kimmel
The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staff Arrangements, Susan N. Houseman
The Role of Temporary Agency Employment in Tight Labor Markets, Susan N. Houseman, Arne L. Kalleberg, and George A. Erickcek
Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers, Jean Kimmel and Lisa M. Powell
Does Charter School Attendance Improve Test Scores?: Comments and Reactions on the Arizona Achievement Study, Christopher Nelson and Kevin Hollenbeck
2000
Group Wage Curves, Timothy J. Bartik
Solving the Many Problems with Inner City Jobs, Timothy J. Bartik
The Role of Public Policy in Skills Development of Black Workers in the 21st Century, Timothy J. Bartik and Kevin Hollenbeck
A Note on Commutes and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis, Kelly DeRango
Teacher Performance Incentives and Student Outcomes, Randall W. Eberts, Kevin Hollenbeck, and Joe Allan Stone
Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements: Evidence from an Establishment Survey, Susan N. Houseman
Intergovernmental Relations in Employment Policy: The United States Experience, Christopher J. O'Leary and Robert A. Straits
Alternative Measures of State UI Systems, Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert Tannenwald, Wei-Jang Huang, and Pei Zhu
Unemployment Compensation and Older Workers, Christopher J. O'Leary and Stephen A. Wandner
1999
Aggregate Effects in Local Labor Markets of Supply and Demand Shocks, Timothy J. Bartik
Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads, Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts
Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices, Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel
The Implications of Flexible Staffing Arrangements for Job Stability, Susan N. Houseman and Anne E. Polivka
Promoting Self Employment Among the Unemployed in Hungary and Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary
1998
The Labor Supply Effects of Welfare Reform, Timothy J. Bartik
1997
Short-Term Employment Persistence for Welfare Recipients: The "Effects" of Wages, Industry, Occupation and Firm Size, Timothy J. Bartik
The Optimal Dole with Risk Aversion and Job Destruction, Carl Davidson and Stephen A. Woodbury
The Use of Profiling to Target Services in State Welfare-to-Work Programs: An Example of Process and Implementation, Randall W. Eberts
Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program, Kevin Hollenbeck, Jean Kimmel, and Randall W. Eberts
Preliminary Evidence on Impacts of Active Labor Programs in Hungary and Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary
Unemployment Insurance Policy in New England: Background and Issues, Robert Tannenwald and Christopher J. O'Leary
1996
Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment: Implications of the Reemployment Bonus Experiments, Carl Davidson and Stephen A. Woodbury
Design of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System and Evaluation in Michigan, Randall W. Eberts and Christopher J. O'Leary
A Framework for Assessing the Economic Benefits and Costs of Workplace Literacy Training, Kevin Hollenbeck
Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families: Health-Related Employment Barriers and Policy Responses, Jean Kimmel
Employee Benefits and Tax Reform, Stephen A. Woodbury
1995
Economic Development Strategies, Timothy J. Bartik
Using Performance Indicators to Improve the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs, Timothy J. Bartik
Can Economic Development Programs Be Evaluated?, Timothy J. Bartik and Richard D. Bingham
Gender Differences in Faculty Turnover, Byron W. Brown and Stephen A. Woodbury
Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay, Byron W. Brown and Stephen A. Woodbury
Optimal Unemployment Insurance, Carl Davidson and Stephen A. Woodbury
Wage-Rate Subsidies for Dislocated Workers, Carl Davidson and Stephen A. Woodbury
Urban Labor Markets, Randall W. Eberts
A Review of Retirement Income Policy Models, Kevin Hollenbeck
Job Growth and the Quality of Jobs in the U.S. Economy, Susan N. Houseman
Who Moonlights and Why? Evidence from the SIPP, Jean Kimmel and Karen Smith Conway
An Impact Analysis of Employment Programs in Hungary, Christopher J. O'Leary
1994
What Should the Federal Government Be Doing About Urban Economic Development?, Timothy J. Bartik
Evaluating Pooled Evidence from the Reemployment Bonus Experiments, Paul T. Decker and Christopher J. O'Leary
Labor Adjustment under Different Institutional Structures: A Case Study of Germany and the United States, Susan N. Houseman and Katharine G. Abraham
Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences Between Whites, Blacks and American Indians, Jean Kimmel
1993
Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility?: Lessons from Germany, France and Belgium, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
Earnings Inequality in Germany, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
Federal Policy Towards State and Local Economic Development in the 1990s, Timothy J. Bartik
The Effects of Local Labor Demand on Individual Labor Market Outcomes for Different Demographic Groups and the Poor, Timothy J. Bartik
The Economic Payoffs to Workplace Literacy, Kevin Hollenbeck
The Michigan Disability Prevention Study: Research Highlights, H. Allan Hunt and Rochelle Virginia Habeck
The Intertemporal-Substitution Hypothesis is Alive and Well (But Hiding in the Data), Jean Kimmel and Thomas J. Kniesner
Reemployment Incentives for Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries: Results from the Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment, Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert G. Spiegelman, and Kenneth J. Kline
Culture, Human Capital, and the Earnings of West Indian Blacks, Stephen A. Woodbury
1992
Moonlighting Behavior: Theory and Evidence, Karen Smith Conway and Jean Kimmel
Postsecondary Education as Triage: Returns to Academic and Technical Programs, Kevin Hollenbeck
Workplace Education Programs in Small- and Medium-Sized Michigan Firms, Kevin Hollenbeck and William Anderson
Congressional Testimony on the Effectiveness of Trade Adjustment Assistance and Suggestions for Improving the Program, Louis S. Jacobson
Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers, Louis S. Jacobson, Robert John LaLonde, and Daniel Gerard Sullivan
Child Care and the Employment Behavior of Single and Married Mothers, Jean Kimmel
Employer Training Needs in Hawaii: Summary Report, Stephen A. Woodbury and University of Hawaii at Manoa, Industrial Relations Center
1991
The Effects of Metropolitan Job Growth on the Size Distribution of Family Income, Timothy J. Bartik
The Employment and Earnings Impacts of the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit, Kevin Hollenbeck and Richard J. Willke
Congressional Testimony on the Effectiveness of the Employment Service in Aiding UI Claimants, Louis S. Jacobson
1990
Maximum Score Estimates of the Determinants of Residential Mobility: Implications for the Value of Residential Attachment and Neighborhood Amenities, Timothy J. Bartik, J. S. Butler, and Jin-Tan Liu
The Displacement Effect of Reemployment Bonus Programs, Carl Davidson and Stephen A. Woodbury
Efficient Bargains in the Context of Recent Labor Market Experience and Policy, Robert A. Hart and Thomas Moutos
Dislocated Worker Human Capital Depreciation and Recovery, Kevin Hollenbeck
An Econometric Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Benefits Adequacy, Christopher J. O'Leary