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The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, independent research organization, founded in 1945 to study policy-related employment issues and to implement workforce solutions. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Reliable economic statistics are crucial for good policymaking. Which is why it's concerning that falling response rates and shrinking budgets are endangering the work of federal statistical agencies.
My story on a new report from the American Statistical Association:
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Paper is "Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children," by David Simon, Aaron Sojourner, Jon Pedersen and Heidi Ombisa Skallet.
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When Minnesota changed a policy to pay adoptive parents what it pays foster parents, adoption rates rose and children did better in school. Our @aaronsojourner.org in the @minnpost.bsky.social
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New EIG report on distressed counties covered in New York Times today echoes recent Upjohn Institute research, with both finding modest trends favoring distressed counties. Thread. (1/4)
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Findings here are similar to those noted in the recent Brookings piece. www.brookings.edu/articles/ear...
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The report concludes: "Trends in distressed counties are promising, but more substantial interventions are needed to fully close the employment rate gap." If trends continued 10 years, the relative employment rate would increase just 0.3 percentage points — on a gap of 8.7 percentage points. (4/4)
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Overall job growth trends favoring distressed counties were also found in manufacturing & high tech industries, but not in clean energy & semiconductors. (3/4)
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The research finds that the slowdown in least-distressed counties began before 2019, making recent policy unlikely to be a factor. It's more likely to be a factor in the more recent growth in distressed counties. (2/4)
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New EIG report on distressed counties covered in New York Times today echoes recent Upjohn Institute research, with both finding modest trends favoring distressed counties. Thread. (1/4)
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“Why did men miss the memo about getting more education to get the jobs?” asked Brad Hershbein, a labor economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo. “Women got the memo.”
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Job growth was pretty concentrated in health care, social assistance and government, which accounted for 153,000 of the 206,000 jobs added in June. Construction was also strong, but other sectors were much weaker: Only +7k leisure and hospitality jobs, and retail was down. Temp jobs down nearly 50k.
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The share of the total earnings power among all new hires accruing to the goods sector has declined over many years and now sits at 17.5 percent, near a series low.
The latest from the New Hires Quality Index. #NHQI #EconSky
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High costs per job can be worth it in some contexts, says @timbartik.bsky.social
"If it’s in Flint, Michigan, or rural Tennessee or rural Kentucky, the benefits of job creation are very big. There are huge effects on the labor market. It can dramatically change people’s prospects for getting jobs."
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Aaron Sojourner
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I am delighted to see Upjohn supporting our second round of dissertation grant winners. These are in addition to our dissertation awards and early career research awards. Learn more below about the promising work being done.
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The grants provide up to $10,000 apiece to help students who have completed all doctoral program requirements but their dissertations pay for expenses such as acquiring or gaining access to data and research assistance. Congratulations to our 2024 grantees!
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This year's grantees are: Adrian Haws, Cornell University Tom Lindman, University of Washington Clara Mejia Orta, Yale University Katharine Sadowski, Cornell University Jiaming Soh, University of Michigan Chas Walker, Boston University
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We're proud to announce our 2024 Dissertation Research Grants. The grants support research on employment-related topics with particular interest in policy-relevant research pertaining to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
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Today @vox.com cites @aaronsojourner.org Bluesky thread showing average hourly wages growing more than consumer prices. #Econsky
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Some cities and states have indexed the minimum wage to inflation and roll out increases on a predictable schedule, our Brian Asquith tells Marketplace. “They allow businesses the chance to anticipate increase in wages and to make adjustments."
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States often cut off payments to kids when they move from foster care into adoptive families or kin guardianships. Minnesota worried this might unintentionally slow moves out of foster care. In 2015, basically equalized payments for kids age 6+ but not for younger (Figure 1). What happened next?
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The Upjohn Institute has served as the independent evaluator of the Columbus Promise since its inception. What have they – and we – learned from this experience?
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The Upjohn Institute has served as the independent evaluator of the Columbus Promise since its inception. What have they – and we – learned from this experience?
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
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When it comes to clear communication, a promise that “community college tuition is free for all” wins, hands down, our @mmilleradams.bsky.social writes in an opinion piece.
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Hershbein has more insight on hiring, including a comparison of trends for U.S.-born and foreign-born workers, in this month's New Hires Quality Index release. #Econsky #NHQI
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“We could be just teetering along right where we’d want to be at a steadily equilibrium,” our Brad Hershbein tells NYT, “where things are mostly hunky dory, inflation continues to come down, the labor market returns to a place where we’d be expecting between 150,000 and 175,000 jobs per month.”
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High-tech centers such as Seattle and San Francisco boomed but earnings in Pittsburgh grew even more. Mid-sized centers such as Omaha, Nebraska; Des Moines, Iowa; Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Canton, Ohio; and Johnstown, Pennsylvania also saw strong growth.
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Hiring volume has held up well for foreign-born workers since the start of 2023 while plummeting for native-born workers. Some of the difference is due to population change, however, as per capita hiring trends show declines in both groups in recent years.
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Despite a slowdown in hiring rates, immigrants are helping to drive new employment growth. The latest from the New Hires Quality Index. #Econsky
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Common wisdom has economic growth concentrated in a few large high-tech centers, while former industrial areas have suffered. New research shows this view is incomplete.
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Explore the patterns and compare communities yourself with our data tool. You can also compare each area to its five closest peer areas. (4/4)
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These adjustments change the narratives on which areas had effective gains in standards of living for residents. The Pacific coast and Northeast do well, but so does the Midwest. (3/4)
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Adjusting for local prices is key, as high housing prices eat away much of the growth in coastal boom towns, especially for less-educated residents. Also, an influx of college graduates can give the appearance of rising wages when any given resident may be no better off. (2/4)
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Do you want to know which areas of the U.S. have seen faster earnings growth for different groups of residents, adjusting for demographics and local prices? A new report from Upjohn Institute researchers lets you do just that. (1/4)
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Comparing apples to apples upends the traditional understanding of economic growth over the past two decades. The picture it reveals is heartening: while big high-tech centers have indeed thrived, America’s economic growth has been broader and more widespread than that caricature suggests. #Econsky
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The common wisdom has economic growth concentrated in a few large high-tech centers, while former industrial areas have suffered. New research shows this view is incomplete. #Econsky
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When it comes to clear communication, a promise that “community college tuition is free for all” wins, hands down, our @mmilleradams.bsky.social writes in an opinion piece for Bridge Michigan.
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More at www.upjohn.org/remote-works...
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Our Brian Asquith discusses his research showing how the trend of working from home has given many rural communities their first population boost in years.
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The Upjohn Institute's Regional division has created an interactive map and chart that track layoff notices, illustrating the dynamic nature of the regional economy and providing a valuable tool for governments, economic development agencies, and non-profits.
Explore:
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A post for the Brookings Institution shows that job growth in distressed counties has accelerated in recent years but the gains are unlikely to close the employment gap without more intervention. From our @timbartik.bsky.social, Kathleen Bolter and Kyle Huisman. #Econsky
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Trends show better job growth in the most distressed counties, thanks partly to shifts in manufacturing and high-tech industries. Though promising, these merely show a slide stopping rather than a narrowing of the overall employment gap: Upjohn researchers for Brookings Institution. #Econsky
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Trends show better job growth in the most distressed counties, thanks partly to shifts in manufacturing and high-tech industries. Though promising, these merely show a slide stopping rather than a narrowing of the overall employment gap: Upjohn researchers for Brookings Institution. #Econsky
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A post for the Brookings Institution shows that job growth in distressed counties has accelerated in recent years but the gains are unlikely to close the employment gap without more intervention. From our @timbartik.bsky.social, Kathleen Bolter and Kyle Huisman. #Econsky
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In a new post for the Brookings Institution, the Upjohn Institute’s @timbartik.bsky.social, Kathleen Bolter and Kyle Huisman dive into recent job growth data to see whether federal investments are effectively creating jobs where they are most needed—in distressed communities.
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Aaron Sojourner
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I'm excited to welcome Alfonso Flores-Lagunes as @upjohninstitute.bsky.social's new Vice President and Director of Research!
Also grateful to Sue Houseman for her recent service in these roles; she's back to research full time.
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“The shift to EVs ... is coming,” said Upjohn Institute President Mike Horrigan, one of the authors of a study on the EV workforce. “It’s important that we have the data that will allow the auto industry, economic development agencies and educators to plan for the workforce we will need.” #econsky
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And the @epi-org.bsky.social paper referenced in the interview, from Elise Gould and Hilary Wething, is here.
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Segment begins at 4:45 into the Marketplace Morning Report
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Hear Hilary Wething on today's Marketplace Morning Report talking about her research with @mslopen.bsky.social on paid sick leave: www.marketplace.org/shows/market... @hilwething.bsky.social @epi-org.bsky.social #Econsky
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