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Education
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McKinsey on Young College Graduates
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Young College Graduates: Overqualified
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Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 23 – April 12, 2013
The following are the most recent labor market policy research reports:
Center for American Progress
The High Cost of Youth Unemployment
Sarah Ayres
Growing the Wealth: How Government Encourages Broad-Based Inclusive Capitalism
David Madland and Karla Walter
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Earned Income Tax Credit Promotes Work, Encourages Children’s Success at School, Research Finds
Chuck Marr, Jimmy Charite, and Chye-Ching Huang
Demos
Stuck: Young America’s Persistent Jobs Crisis
Catherine Ruetschlin and Tamara Draut
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Carry On, Wayward Sons
I got an email yesterday from Elaine Kamarck, resident scholar at Third Way. We don’t know each other, but she wanted to let me know about a new Third Way study: Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education (pdf). I had already rea
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Third Way or Dead End? Autor-Wasserman’s Hypothesis that Single Mothers Contribute to the College Gender Gap
In a report for Third Way, David Autor and Melanie Wasserman hypothesize that the decline in the share of children living with both their biological mother and biological father “may magnify the emerging gender gap in educational attainment …”.
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Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out
The latest issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Gender and Society, has an excellent paper by Rachel Dwyer, Randy Hodson, and Laura McCloud on “Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out of College” (which is, unfortunately, behind a paywall). The new paper f
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Nearly 1.4 Million Workers Have Below-Poverty Incomes; Most of Them Have Education Beyond High School
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Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 27 – November 2, 2012
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