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The STEM Dilemma: Skills that Matter to Regions
Fran Stewart
2017Fran Stewart dives into the murky waters where education and economic goals meet to confront several key issues facing policymakers and educators, including the role of public investment in human capital, the types of human capital investment that provide the greatest public return, and whether those investments should vary by region.
She shows that not all high-paying jobs require STEM skills; that not all good-paying, highly skilled STEM jobs require college degrees; and that "soft skills" are important for STEM as well as other high-paying jobs.
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Workers' Compensation: Analysis for Its Second Century
H. Allan Hunt and Marcus Dillender
2017Hunt and Dillender review the status of workers' compensation programs on three critical performance areas: 1) the adequacy of compensation for those disabled in the workplace, 2) return-to-work performance for injured workers, and 3) prevention of disabling injury and disease.
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Evolving Approaches to the Economics of Public Policy: Views of Award-Winning Economists
Jean Kimmel, Editor
2016For policymakers, economics is a useful tool in the development and evaluation of public policy. And like many sciences, economics is evolving to become more interdisciplinary in its approach. Today, economic theory is often used in conjunction with insights gleaned from psychology and sociology to create a more inclusive, real-world approach to implementing public policy. In this book, five award-winning economists tackle a diverse range of topics and show how applied economics has evolved to give policymakers a more nuanced approach to policy development. The award-winning economists included in this volume are Erica Field, Nancy Folbre, Avner Grief, David M. Kreps, and Michael J. Piore, and the topics they discuss include microfinance, human capital, societal institutions, worker motivation, and workplace regulation.
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Surviving Job Loss: Paper Makers in Maine and Minnesota
Kenneth A. Root and Rosemarie J. Park
2016Root and Park examine the plight of long-tenured workers displaced from two paper mills—their paths to reemployment, retirement decisions, and the personal struggles they confront.
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Sustaining Social Security in an Era of Population Aging
John A. Turner
2016John A. Turner offers a set of reforms for restoring solvency to Social Security that are deemed to have merit in the current political climate. These reforms relate to several vexing issues including increased life expectancy, the growing relationship between income and life expectancy, the declines in the physical demands of jobs, growing income inequality, and the pattern of poverty increasing at older ages.
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The Economics of Health
Donald J. Meyer, Editor
2016Donald J. Meyer leads a group of notable health economists who explore critical issues—and their economic impacts—facing the nation's healthcare system today. These include lifestyle choices and their health impacts, decisions on medical care and self-care, the fee-for-service payment model, disability and workers’ compensation insurance claims, long-term care, and how various aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) impact the nation’s healthcare system. Contributors include M. Kate Bundorf, Marcus Dillender, John H. Goddeeris, Donald J. Meyer, Edward C. Norton, and Charles E. Phelps.
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Guild-Ridden Labor Markets: The Curious Case of Occupational Licensing
Morris M. Kleiner
2015In his third Upjohn Press book on occupational licensing, Morris M. Kleiner examines why the institution of occupational licensing has had such a curious evolution and influence in the United States, the European Union, and China. He also discusses the many similarities it has to guilds.
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Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy
Susan N. Houseman, Editor and Michael J. Mandel, Editor
2015Understanding the impacts of globalization requires good data, and national statistical systems were not designed to measure many of the transactions occurring in today’s global economy. The chapters in this volume and its companion volume identify biases and gaps in national statistics, examine the magnitude of the problems they pose, and propose solutions to address significant biases and fill key data gaps.
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Promise Nation: Transforming Communities through Place-Based Scholarships
Michelle Miller-Adams
2015Miller-Adams describes how the various "Promise-type" place-based scholarship programs impact college access, financial aid, and community transformation.
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Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt
Brad J. Hershbein, Editor and Kevin M. Hollenbeck, Editor
2015The papers included in this volume represent the most current research and knowledge available about student loans and repayment. It serves as a valuable reference for researchers and policymakers who seek a deeper understanding of how, why, and which students borrow for their postsecondary education; how this borrowing may affect later decisions; and what measures can help borrowers repay their loans successfully.
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The Political Economy of Good Governance
Sisay Asefa, Editor and Wei-Chiao Huang, Editor
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, Editor and John A. Turner, Editor
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, Editor
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, Editor and Richard A. Hobbie, Editor
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, Editor and Huizhong Zhou, Editor
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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