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The Political Economy of Good Governance
Sisay Asefa and Wei-Chiao Huang
2015The contributors to this book capture several of the key dimensions of good governance, as well as what deleterious and negative consequences may arise in its absence. They draw analysis and solutions from diverse sectors such as economics, public administration, management, and political science, in order to treat some of the most pressing societal issues of our time. They connect the importance of education, health, climate change, and poverty to address the challenges of creating a world where more countries embrace good governance policies to benefit their peoples.
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From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education
Timothy J. Bartik
2014Bartik shows that investment in high-quality early childhood education has several long-term benefits, including higher adult earnings for program participants.
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Privatizing Railroad Retirement
Steven A. Sass
2014Sass discusses the evolution of the U.S. Railroad Retirement System and whether its ability to invest its assets in private equities offers any lessons for Social Security.
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Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives
Marek Szczepański and John A. Turner
2014Countries around the world are reforming their social security and pension systems. International studies often focus on social security reforms in Europe and North America, and may include Latin America. Reforms, however, are also occurring in Asia and Africa, and include reforms of voluntary and employer-provided pensions as well as social security programs. This book discusses both social security and employer-provided pension reforms, as well as reforms in most regions of the world.
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The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
Steven Raphael
2014This book explores the difficulties facing ex-offenders as they try to enter and remain in the U.S. labor market.
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The Road through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity
William M. Bowen
2014The chapters in this book explore reasons for the decline of "Rust Belt" cities and the often innovative responses of local leaders and entrepreneurs that are helping to revive these areas.
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What Does the Minimum Wage Do?
Dale Belman and Paul J. Wolfson
2014This book attempts to make sense of the research on the minimum wage that began in the early 1990s. The authors look at who is affected by the minimum wage, both directly and indirectly; which observable, measurable variables (e.g., wages, employment, school enrollment) the minimum wage influences; how long it takes for the variables to respond to the minimum wage and the size and desirability of the effect; why the minimum wage has the results it does (and not others); and the workers most likely to be affected by changes to the minimum wage.
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Occupational Labor Shortages : Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Burt S. Barnow, John Trutko, and Jaclyn Schede Piatak
2013There has long been concern that shortages sometimes develop and persist in specific occupations, leading to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. This book will help readers understand why occupational shortages arise, how to know a shortage when it is present, and to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage. As the authors show, many economists, including several U.S. Nobel Prize winners, have studied occupational shortages, and this volume builds on their work.
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Stages of Occupational Regulation: Analysis of Case Studies
Morris M. Kleiner
2013Kleiner examines occupations that are at various stages of regulation to determine to what extent regulation has influenced the individuals in the occupations, consumers, and related occupational practitioners.
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Tackling Unemployment: The Legislative Dynamics of the Employment Act of 1946
Ruth Ellen Wasem
2013Wasem examines the impacts and implications of the Employment Act of 1946 and discusses how provisions of the Act might be useful for today's policymakers.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Role of Workforce Programs
Burt S. Barnow and Richard A. Hobbie
2013This 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 focus on workforce development initiatives in the Recovery Act.
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Dragon versus Eagle: The Chinese Economy and U.S.-China Relations
Wei-Chiao Huang and Huizhong Zhou
2012This book contains a group of papers that examine the complex and evolving economic relationship between China and the United States.
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Education Reform and the Limits of Policy: Lessons from Michigan
Michael F. Addonizio and C. Philip Kearney
2012By examining a major set of education policy reforms undertaken in Michigan and across the country over the past 20-plus years, Addonizio and Kearney are able to reveal the varying success of innovations such as finance reform, state assessment of student performance, school accountability measures, charter schools, and schools of choice.
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Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms
Albert N. Link and John T. Scott
2012Link and Scott provide a statistical assessment of the employment growth associated with public support of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
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Reconnecting to Work: Policies to Mitigate Long-Term Unemployment and Its Consequences
Lauren D. Appelbaum
2012The goal of this book is to enable a better understanding of the consequences of long-term unemployment and the policies that are needed to address it. The contributors present research that examines the psychological as well as economic consequences of experiencing a prolonged spell of joblessness. Included are discussions of policies to increase job creation and to get the long-term unemployed back into jobs.
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The Health and Wealth of a Nation: Employer-Based Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act
Nan L. Maxwell
2012This research examines the behaviors of firms with respect to their provision of health care prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) deliberations and uses those behaviors to assess changes in employer-sponsored health insurance that might occur once the ACA is fully implemented.
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Advances in Economic Forecasting
Matthew L. Higgins
2011This book's contributors assess the performance of economic forecasting methods, argue that data can be better exploited through model and forecast combination, and advocate for models that are adaptive and perform well in the presence of nonlinearity and structural change. The contributors are: Michael D. Bradley, Dean Croshure, Dennis W. Jansen, Kajal Lahiri, Tae-Hwy Lee, David E. Rapach, and H.O. Stekler
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Imagining the Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives
Dana M. Muir and John A. Turner
2011Muir and Turner gather an international roster of pension experts who present what they think would be the ideal pension systems for their countries and why. Those countries include the United States, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland, and Japan.
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Investing in Kids: Early Childhood Programs and Local Economic Development
Timothy J. Bartik
2011Early childhood programs, if designed correctly, pay big economic dividends down the road because they increase the skills of their participants. And since many of those participants will remain in the same state or local area as adults, the local economy benefits: more persons with better skills attract business, which provides more and better jobs for the local economy. Bartik measures ratios of local economic development benefits to costs for both early childhood education and business incentives. He shows that early childhood programs and the best-designed business incentives can provide local benefits that significantly exceed costs. Given this, states and municipalities would do well to adopt economic development strategies that balance high-quality business incentives with early childhood programs.
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Longevity Policy: Facing Up to Longevity Issues Affecting Social Security, Pensions, and Older Workers
John A. Turner
2011Turner argues that public policy should recognize longevity policy as a distinct policy area. Rather than separately treating issues raised by life expectancy (e.g., Social Security, pensions, older workers), a unified approach should be developed that recognizes their interrelationship.
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The Performance of Performance Standards
James J. Heckman, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Pascal Courty, Gerald Marschke, and Jeffrey Smith
2011Using a variety of data sources, the contributors explore how performance standards and incentives affect the behavior of public managers and agency employees, their approaches to service delivery, and ultimately, the outcomes for participants.
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The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was it Beneficial for Workers?
Edward N. Wolff
2011The share of Americans with defined contribution pension plans now exceeds the share of those with defined benefit plans. Wolff refers to this as the "great transformation" and it leads him to examine recent evidence to see whether there are winners and losers resulting from this switch away from traditional pension plans.
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The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings
Douglas J. Besharov and Phoebe H. Cottingham
2011This volume examines WIA’s objectives and the evidence on program performance and impact. The chapters are organized into five general areas: 1) understanding WIA, 2) program implementation, 3) performance management, 4) impact evaluations, and 5) future evaluation choices.
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What Works in Work-First Welfare: Designing and Managing Employment Programs in New York City
Andrew R. Feldman
2011This book is a case study of how New York City's welfare-to-work programs were managed and implemented in the mid 2000s. Feldman also analyzes the unique characteristics that differentiate it from other programs in place across the country.
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