Publications
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Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies?
(1991)
Bartik reviews evidence on whether state and local policies affect job growth. He then presents empirical data supporting the intentions of such programs, showing that job growth may lead to a number of positive long-term ...
Are Participants Good Evaluators?
(2021)
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 ...
Intergenerational Mobility
(2021)
This volume presents a complex portrait of the interrelationships among parents’ marital status and education, child gender, and the nature and success of children’s transitions into adulthood. The first three chapters ...
The Human and Economic Implications of Twenty-First Century Immigration Policy
(2018)
To effectively debate immigration policy we need to be better informed. This book helps by presenting a group of prominent scholars who use data to help unravel the facts. They address immigration’s fiscal impacts, immigrants’ ...
Pathways to Careers in Health Care
(2019)
This book provides analyses and evaluations of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program, a federal government demonstration project that is targeted at providing career opportunities in the health care field ...
Food Stamps and the Working Poor
(2019)
The authors show that many households that are eligible for food stamps do not receive them, and that eligible individuals' enrollment is influenced by the states' administrative requirements. Highlighted are the procedures ...
Data Science in the Public Interest
(2020)
This book is about how new and underutilized types of big data sources can inform public policy decisions related to workforce development. Hawley describes how government is currently using data to inform decisions about ...
Evolving Approaches to the Economics of Public Policy
(2016)
For 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 ...
Sustaining Social Security in an Era of Population Aging
(2016)
John 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 ...
Confronting Policy Challenges of the Great Recession
(2017)
This book presents several notable economists who describe the perils the economy faced during the Great Recession and the policies—some successful, others not so much—that were implemented and why. By now, economists have ...
How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?
(2017)
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 ...
The Political Economy of Good Governance
(2015)
The 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 ...
The STEM Dilemma
(2017)
Stewart 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 ...
The Impacts of China's Rise on the Pacific and the World
(2018)
This book provides the perspectives of a group of noted China experts on how China’s economic expansion and internal reforms are impacting its neighbors in the Pacific region as well as the United States and the rest of the world.
Promise Nation
(2015)
Miller-Adams describes how the various "Promise-type" place-based scholarship programs impact college access, financial aid, and community transformation.
Measuring Globalization
(2015)
Understanding 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 two-volume set ...
Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?
(2009)
Lazonick explores the origins of the new era of employment insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments, businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether the United States can refashion ...
Social Security and Pension Reform
(2014)
Countries 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, ...
The Economics of Health
(2016)
Donald 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, ...
What Does the Minimum Wage Do?
(2014)
This book make sense of the scores of research studies 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 ...
From Preschool to Prosperity
(2014)
Bartik shows that investment in high-quality early childhood education has several long-term benefits, including higher adult earnings for program participants.
Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt
(2015)
The 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 ...
The Road through the Rust Belt
(2014)
The 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.
Unemployment Insurance Reform
(2018)
The most important contribution to this book comes from the authors, all of whom have been students of the unemployment insurance program for many years. They share a common belief in the importance of unemployment insurance ...
Disasters in the United States
(2016)
This book focuses on three disaster-related categories: major disaster declarations, emergency declarations, and fire management assistance declarations. The authors utilize these official definitions to draw inferences ...
Workers' Compensation
(2017)
This volume represents an effort to draw policy implications from research in three critical performance areas for workers’ compensation programs; prevention of disabling injury and disease, return to work performance for ...
Lessons Learned from Public Workforce Program Experiments
(2017)
This book presents an analysis of the lessons learned from public workforce experiments that have been conducted and evaluated in the United States.
Extending Work Life
(2016)
This book examines the employer perspective on how to respond to the needs and desires of older workers to delay or prolong the transition from full-time employment to complete retirement.