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Productivity Growth And Public Sector Employment, Kong Weng Ho, Hian Teck Hoon
Productivity Growth And Public Sector Employment, Kong Weng Ho, Hian Teck Hoon
Research Collection School Of Economics
Our model endogenizes the share of public sector employment in a neoclassical growth model. Under the assumptions that public sector production is labor intensive and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor is less than one, the public share of employment is shown to decline with a rise in capital per effective worker. Our theory predicts that periods of high productivity growth are associated with a rising trend of the public share of employment. This prediction conforms well with U.S. experience from 1950-1995.
Research To Practice: Employing People With Disabilities: Small Business Concerns And Recommendations, Oce Harrison
Research To Practice: Employing People With Disabilities: Small Business Concerns And Recommendations, Oce Harrison
Research to Practice Series, Institute for Community Inclusion
Survey results from Massachusetts small businesses regarding hiring and employing people with disabilities.
Tools For Inclusion: Americans With Disabilities Act (Ada) Title 1: Employment, Joe Marrone
Tools For Inclusion: Americans With Disabilities Act (Ada) Title 1: Employment, Joe Marrone
Tools for Inclusion Series, Institute for Community Inclusion
Brief overview of the concepts and scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, plus resource lists.
When Dreams Wither And Resources Fail: The Social-Support Systems Of Poor Single Mothers, Susan Weinger
When Dreams Wither And Resources Fail: The Social-Support Systems Of Poor Single Mothers, Susan Weinger
Social Work Faculty Publications
Recent political decisions to redesign the welfare system compels single mothers to work. With concern for the women and children so effected, this qualitative study explores the views of 42 poor single mothers regarding (1) their aspirations and dreams in relation to work and (2) the helpfulness of their social support networks in enabling them to make transitions to work or to study. Analysis was performed on both the sample as a whole and on subgroups of respondents who were divided by work category, e.g. employed fulltime, employed part-time, women who were students and full-time mothers. Developing meaningful subgroupings of …
The Economic Impact Of Human Services Agencies On The Pioneer Valley Region: An Analysis Of Expenditures And Jobs, Center For Economic Development
The Economic Impact Of Human Services Agencies On The Pioneer Valley Region: An Analysis Of Expenditures And Jobs, Center For Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
The Center for Economic Development, working in concert with the Human Service Forum, assessed the expenditure and job multipliers for the human service industry on the Pioneer Valley region. The study consists of three parts: 1) detailed assessments of expenditures for six human service providers that helped shape a survey of jobs and expenditures; 2) a follow-up survey was sent to 110 agencies with a response rate of 53% and ; 3) the subsequent application of job multipliers, developed by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, to the information in order to assess the total impact of jobs in the …