Author : Michelle Miller-Adams
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 0880995041
Michelle Miller-Adams presents the most accessible and comprehensive overview available of the emergence and development of the Promise movement nationwide as well as an up-to-date assessment of available research on the impacts of such programs.
Author : Timothy J. Bartik
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0880996684
Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop—and provide new jobs—in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.
Author : Dale Belman
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0880994568
Belman and Wolfson perform a meta-analysis on scores of published studies on the effects of the minimum wage to determine its impacts on employment, wages, poverty, and more.
Author : Fidan Ana Kurtulus
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0880995254
Employee ownership firms offer workers the opportunity to own a stake in the firms where they work. This affords them the ability to share in profits and have a voice in firm-related decision-making. In this comprehensive new book, Kurtulus and Kruse provide new evidence on whether employee ownership firms are better equipped to survive recessions. In particular, they focus on broad-based employee ownership, which includes ownership at all levels in the firm’s hierarchy. The authors begin by defining what is meant by “employee ownership” and then discuss the prevalence of such firms in the United States. They also examine how employee ownership affects employment stability and why employee ownership firms have survived recessions more successfully than other firms. Kurtulus and Kruse conclude by saying that the benefits they observed in employee ownership firms, particularly the greater employment stability and survival rates, can help the overall economy. Therefore, increased government support to broaden employee ownership programs is merited.
Author : Carl E. Van Horn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Human capital
ISBN : 9780692163184
Author : Timothy J. Bartik
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0880993723
This book presents arguments for the following propositions: Local economic development strategies in the United States should include extensive investments in high quality early childhood programs, such as prekindergarten (pre K) education, child care, and parenting assistance. Economic development policies should also include reforms in business tax incentives. But economic development benefitsChigher earnings per capita in the local communityCcan be better achieved if business incentives are complemented by early childhood programs. Economic development benefits can play an important role in motivating a grassroots movement for investing in our kids.
Author : Michelle Miller-Adams
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781682536070
In The Path to Free College, Michelle Miller-Adams argues that tuition-free college, if pursued strategically and in alignment with other sectors, can be a powerful agent of change. She makes the case that broadly accessible and affordable higher education is in the public interest, yielding dividends not just for individuals but also for the communities, states, and nation in which they reside. Miller-Adams offers a comprehensive analysis of the College Promise movement--its history, impacts, and unintended consequences--and its relationship to access, affordability, and workforce readiness. These factors are explored through data, analysis, and case studies of existing place-based scholarship programs. She also examines historical precursors of the free-college movement and evaluates the possibility of national action. The Path to Free College outlines how the design of free-college programs should relate to programmatic goals and explores the suitability of different approaches. In addition, the book describes both the need for and the challenges of implementing a nationwide free-college program, as well as the variety of models and research-based evidence. Given the raging national debate about tuition-free college, the moment is right for a book that assesses state and local efforts and offers policy leaders and practitioners guidance going forward. The Path to Free College asserts that the promise of private and public gains warrants public investment in tuition-free college.
Author : Jeffrey Andrew Smith
Publisher : W. E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780880996594
Managers of workforce training programs are often unable to afford costly, full-fledged experimental or nonexperimental evaluations to determine their programs' impacts. Therefore, many rely on the survey responses of program participants to gauge program impacts. Smith, Whalley, and Wilcox present the first attempt to assess such measures despite their already widespread use in program evaluations. They develop a multidisciplinary framework for addressing the issue and apply it to three case studies: the National Job Training Partnership Act Study, the U.S. National Supported Work Demonstration, and the Connecticut Jobs First Program. Each of these studies were subjected to experimental evaluations that included a survey-based participant evaluation measure. The authors apply econometric methods specifically developed to obtain estimates of program impacts among individuals in the studies and then compare these estimates with survey-based participant evaluation measures to obtain an assessment of the surveys' efficacy. The authors also discuss how their findings fit into the broader literatures in economics, psychology, and survey research.
Author : Joseph Persky
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 088099309X
The authors explore a new framework for evaluating economic development projects. This framework is based on a job-chain approach. Each new job created by an economic development incentive is filled by an employee who leaves behind another job. In turn, that job may be filled by someone who leaves behind their old job, etc. Such job chains end when an unemployedworker, someone not previously in the labor force, or an in-migrant to the labor market takes a vacancy. Job chains are the mechanism for observing and measuring "trickle down". The job trains model developed in this book presents new insights into local economic development evaluation and strategy.
Author : David E. Balducchi
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0880996528
The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a lasting piece of the Social Security Act which was enacted in 1935. But like most things that are over 80 years old, it occasionally needs maintenance to keep it operating smoothly while keeping up with the changing demands placed upon it. However, the UI system has been ignored by policymakers for decades and, say the authors, it is broken, out of date, and badly in need of repair. Stephen A. Wandner pulls together a group of UI researchers, each with decades of experience, who describe the weaknesses in the current system and propose policy reforms that they say would modernize the system and prepare us for the next recession.
