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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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Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21st Century
Sisay Asefa
2010These papers address globalization issues with a special emphasis on its impact on poverty. Advances in transportation and telecommunications with instantaneous information and communication flows requires new approaches given the wide differences in cultures, political systems, languages, and ethnicities. Extreme variation in the international distributions of wealth, income, and poverty remain as enormous social problems to be addressed. In general, the contributors recommend expanding the flows between countries to accelerate growth and reduce inequalities. These flows include international trade and capital, migration, remittances, and foreign aid. But in addition to these hard commodities and dollars, there are flows of ideas, knowledge, and technical assistance which require enforcement of appropriate intellectual property rights.
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Human Resource Economics and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
Charles J. Whalen
2010This book pays tribute to Vernon Briggs and his enduring mark on the study of human resources. The chapters, by his students and colleagues, explore and extend Briggs’s work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor markets. His unwavering emphasis on institutional reality, public policy, and economic dynamics animates the entire collection.
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Mothers' Work and Children's Lives: Low-Income Families after Welfare Reform
Rucker C. Johnson, Ariel Kalil, and Rachel E. Dunifon
2010This book examines the effects of work requirements imposed by welfare reform on low-income women and their families. The authors pay particular attention to the nature of work—whether it is stable or unstable, the number of hours worked in a week and the regularity and flexibility of work schedules. They also show how these factors make it more difficult for low-income women to balance their work and family requirements.
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Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions
John A. Turner
2010Turner identifies the current problems facing pension policy for U.S. employer-provided pension plans and recommends solutions to those problems based on his examination of pension systems in other industrialized nations.
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Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy
Stephen A. Wandner
2010Wandner examines the research and evaluation of U.S. employment and training programs over the past 25 years. He also discusses the impact such research can have and how misuse of research findings can hamper program effectiveness.
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The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters
William Kern
2010These papers present the economic issues debates that arise when natural disasters strike. Better mechanisms for coping with disasters through better preparation and mitigation efforts are addressed. The authors discuss insurance and risk and suggest long-term insurance arrangements and government policy action. The themes addressed also include the ability of potential disaster victims to accurately assess the risks they face, the role of incentives in ensuring that mitigation efforts are undertaken, the adequacy of the evaluation of the impact of disasters on economies, and discussion of the effectiveness of current government policies toward disaster prevention and relief.
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The Time Use of Mothers in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel
2010Connelly and Kimmel focus on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. They explore how mothers use their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the lives of their children.
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Against the Tide: Household Structure, Opportunities, and Outcomes among White and Minority Youth
Carolyn J. Hill, Harry J. Holzer, and Henry Chen
2009The authors examine the effects of household structure on young adults and how these effects might have contributed to the negative trends in educational and employment outcomes observed for young minorities over time.
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