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The Upjohn Institute is involved in researching alternative policies for increasing employment opportunities for the poor, including those being encouraged to move off welfare and into the workforce by recent welfare reforms.

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Published articles/chapters

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Working papers
  • Food Stamp Participation among Adult-Only Households, David C. Ribar, Marilyn Edelhoch, and Qiduan Liu (WP09-159), 2009.
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  • Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from Random Assignments, David Autor and Susan N. Houseman (WP05-124), 2005.
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  • Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?, David Autor and Susan N. Houseman (WP05-123), 2005.
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  • Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Labor Market Spillover Effects of Welfare Reform, Timothy J. Bartik (WP02-078), 2002.
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  • Thinking about Local Living Wage Requirements, Timothy J. Bartik (WP02-076), 2002.
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    NOTE: A revised version of this paper was published in Urban Affairs Review 40(2): 269-299, 1994.
  • Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers, Jean Kimmel and Lisa M. Powell (WP01-74), 2001.
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  • 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 (WP01-69), 2001.
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  • Solving the Many Problems with Inner City Jobs, Timothy J. Bartik (WP00-66), 2000.
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  • The Role of Public Policy in Skills Development of Black Workers in the 21st Century, Timothy J. Bartik and Kevin Hollenbeck (WP00-064), 2000.
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    NOTE: A revised version of this paper was published in Cecilia Conrad, ed. Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Dallas: University Press of America, pp. 127-148, 2004.
  • Group Wage Curves, Timothy J. Bartik (WP00-063), 2000.
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    NOTE: Partial results from this paper are incorporated into Appendix 9 of Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help?, by Timothy J. Bartik. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
  • A Note on Commutes and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis, Kelly J. DeRango (WP00-59), 2000.
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  • Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices: Changing the Rules of the Game, Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel (WP99-58), 1999.
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  • Aggregate Effects in Local Labor Markets of Supply and Demand Shocks, Timothy J. Bartik (WP99-057), 1999.
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    NOTE: A revised version of this paper was published as "Spillover Effects of Welfare Reforms in State Labor Markets" in Journal of Regional Science 42(4): 667-701, November 2002.
  • Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads, Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts (WP99-054), 1999.
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  • The Labor Supply Effects of Welfare Reform, Timothy J. Bartik, 1998.
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  • The Use of Profiling to Target Services in State Welfare-to-Work Programs: An Example of Process and Implementation, Randall W. Eberts (WP98-052), 1997.
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  • Short-Term Employment Persistence for Welfare Recipients: The "Effects" of Wages, Industry, Occupation and Firm Size, Timothy J. Bartik (WP97-046), 1997.
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  • Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families: Health-Related Employment Barriers and Policy Responses, Jean Kimmel (WP96-043), 1996.
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  • Using Performance Indicators to Improve the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs, Timothy J. Bartik (WP95-036), 1995.
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  • The Effects of Local Labor Demand on Individual Labor Market Outcomes for Different Demographic Groups and the Poor, Timothy J. Bartik (WP93-023), 1993.
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    NOTE: A revised version of this paper was published as "The Distributional Effects of Local Labor Demand and Industrial Mix: Estimates Using Panel Data" in Journal of Urban Economics 40(2): 150-178, 1996.
  • Child Care and the Employment Behavior of Single and Married Mothers, Jean Kimmel (WP93-014), 1993.
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Grants in progress
  • Nan Maxwell, California State University-Hayward, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Employment-Based Health Insurance and the Plight of Low-Skilled Workers
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