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State Of Ohio's Urban Regions Reports: Employment Change, Ziona Austrian, John P. Blair
State Of Ohio's Urban Regions Reports: Employment Change, Ziona Austrian, John P. Blair
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No abstract provided.
The Nasa Glenn Research Center: An Economic Impact Study, Ziona Austrian, Adina Swirski Wolf
The Nasa Glenn Research Center: An Economic Impact Study, Ziona Austrian, Adina Swirski Wolf
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This study describes the impact of GRC on the State of Ohio and on Northeast Ohio, where GRC is located. Northeast Ohio includes the eight counties in the Akron and Cleveland metropolitan areas.1 This report is an expansion and update of an earlier study, published in February 1996.2 As before, this study employs two methods to determine GRC’s influence on the state and local economies. The first method uses quantitative models to estimate the effect of GRC on the studied economies. These models measure economic impact in terms of growth in total output, household earnings, and number of new jobs …
World Class Region Initiative: Northeastohioeconomy.Com, Donald T. Iannone, Ziona Austrian, Adina Swirski Wolf
World Class Region Initiative: Northeastohioeconomy.Com, Donald T. Iannone, Ziona Austrian, Adina Swirski Wolf
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
No abstract provided.
Best Practices In Workforce Development: A Chamber Of Commerce Perspective, Patricia Burgess
Best Practices In Workforce Development: A Chamber Of Commerce Perspective, Patricia Burgess
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Changes in the economy--at the local, regional, state, and national levels--as well as technological advances have altered how and where people work, which has brought attention to the issue of workforce development. Many public and private entities, Chambers of Commerce among them, now engage in some form of workforce development. This report examines a number of such efforts to determine the “best practices” of workforce development for Chambers of Commerce. This report first considers the complex world of workforce development. The workforce consists of several distinct sub-populations: existing workers, new entrants, the unemployed, and the underemployed. Each has its own …