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A Note on Commutes and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

Kelly DeRango

Intergovernmental Relations and Employment Policy: The United States Experience

Christopher O'Leary and Robert Straits

Unemployment Compensation and Older Workers

Christopher O'Leary and Stephen A. Wandner

Alternative Measures of State UI Systems

Christopher O'Leary, Robert Tannenwald, Wei-Jang Huang and Pei Zhu

Group Wage Curves

Timothy Bartik

The Role of Public Policy in Skills Development of Black Workers in the 21st Century

Timothy Bartik and Kevin Hollenbeck

Teacher Performance Incentives and Student Outcomes

Randall Eberts, Kevin Hollenbeck and Joe Stone

Solving the Many Problems with Inner City Jobs

Timothy Bartik

Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements: Evidence from an Establishment Survey

Susan Houseman

An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools

Randall Eberts and Kevin Hollenbeck

The Effect of Child Care Costs on the Labor Force Participation and Welfare Recipiency of Single Mothers: Implications for Welfare Reform

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel

Does Charter School Attendance Improve Test Scores?: Comments and Reactions on the Arizona Achievement Study

Christopher Nelson and Kevin Hollenbeck

Black-White Segregation, Discrimination, and Home Ownership

Kelly DeRango

The Returns to Education and Basic Skills Training for Individuals with Poor Health or Disability

Kevin Hollenbeck and Jean Kimmel

The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Susan Houseman, Arne L. Kalleberg and George Erickcek

Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers

Jean Kimmel and Lisa Powell

The Role of Partnerships in Economic Development and Labor Markets in the United States

Randall Eberts and George Erickcek

Thinking about Local Living Wage Requirements

Timothy Bartik

How Late to Pay? Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia

John Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter

Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Labor Market Spillover Effects of Welfare Reform

Timothy Bartik

A Spoonful of Sugar: Privatization and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic

John Earle and Scott Gelbach

Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Achievement in Michigan

Randall Eberts and Kevin Hollenbeck

Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises

John Earle and Almos Telegdy

Information Technology, Organizational Form, and Transition to the Market

John Earle, Ugo Pagano and Maria Lesi

The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

John Earle and J. David Brown

A Frontline Decision Support System for Georgia Career Centers

Randall Eberts and Christopher O'Leary

How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Joshua Angrist and Kevin Lang

Income Replacement and Reemployment Programs in Michigan and Neighboring States

Stephen Woodbury

The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staffing Arrangements

Susan Houseman

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle

Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses

Christopher O'Leary, Paul T. Decker and Stephen A. Wandner

Evaluating the Impacts of Local Economic Development Policies On Local Economic Outcomes: What Has Been Done and What is Doable?

Timothy Bartik

The Effects of Temporary Services and Contracting Out on Low-Skilled Workers: Evidence from Auto Suppliers, Hospitals, and Public Schools

George Erickcek, Susan Houseman and Arne Kalleberg

Local Economic Development Policies

Timothy Bartik

Net Impact Estimates of the Workforce Development System in Washington State

Kevin Hollenbeck

Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance on the Budapest Stock Exchange: Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Goulash?

John Earle, Csaba Kucsera and Almos Telegdy

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

J. David Brown, John Earle and Daniela Lup

The Productivity Consequences of Two Ergonomic Interventions

Kelly DeRango, Ben Amick, III, Michelle Robertson, Ted Rooney, Anne Moore and Lianna Bazzani

Thoughts on American Manufacturing Decline and Revitalization

Timothy Bartik

Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

John Earle, Andrew Spicer and Klara Sabirianova Peter

Small Cities Blues: Looking for Growth Factors in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

George Erickcek and Hannah McKinney

A New WPRS Profiling Model for Michigan

Randall Eberts and Christopher O'Leary

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle

Work and Retirement Plans among Older Americans

Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman

Increasing the Economic Development Benefits of Higher Education in Michigan

Timothy Bartik

Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John Earle and Almos Telegdy

The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000

Daniela Andrén, John Earle and Dana Sapatoru

Some Reflections on the Use of Administrative Data to Estimate the Net Impacts of Workforce Programs in Washington State

Kevin Hollenbeck

Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations for Planning Implementation

Christopher O'Leary and Randall Eberts

Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle