Quality labor market data and analysis is critical to developing effective market-driven workforce and economic strategies in states, regions, and localities. Such information can be complex, intimidating, and overwhelming to many users, however. This issue brief offers a framework for understanding workforce information, including a summary of…

The major purpose of this paper is to examine the problems of geralizing from the Graduated Work Incentive experimental setting to the national labor-supply responses that would be generated by a negative income tax that replaced existing welfare programs for families headed by able-bodied males. (Author/BP)

Among the many problems in interpreting the results of the experiment is the determination of what can be inferred from a limited duration experiment about the behavioral effects of a negative income tax. This paper examines and interprets experimental data based on the labor supply model. (Author/BP)

A summary of findings is presented of the Graduated Work Incentive Experiment (New Jersey-Pennsylvania "negative income tax" experiment). The experiment studied the effects of payment of substantial amounts of unearned income to poor families on the labor-supply response of such families. (EA)

Comparison of in-home child care providers in Newark and Camden, New Jersey, and South Chicago, Illinois, showed that (1) unregulated providers offer more adult-time intensive care than licensed providers; (2) licensed family providers show more commitment to the profession; and (3) family providers offer large discounts on fees covering more than…

The labor-supply or work-effect response of married women with husband present of families eligible for or receiving subsidies such as negative income tax (Graduated Work Incentive Experiment-New Jersey, Pennsylvania) revealed significant disincentive toward labor-force participation for white wives but not for black and Spanish-speaking wives.…

The labor-supply or work-effort response of male heads of families eligible for or receiving subsidies such as negative income tax (Graduated Work Incentive Experiment-New Jersey, Pennsylvania) revealed no sharp disincentive for male family heads. Any disincentive reflected was concentrated among the poorest stratum. (EA)

The labor-supply or work-effort response of the family unit of families eligible for or receiving subsidies such as negative income tax (Graduated Work Incentive Experiment-New Jersey, Pennsylvania) was analyzed by the measures of earnings and family hours worked. A significant negative differential was found for whites and Spanish-speaking. (EA)

Twenty-one recommendations are made to hospitals, medical schools, health-care payers, and government agencies involved in graduate medical education (residency programs) in New Jersey. The recommendations address five areas of concern: program quality; qualifications of trainees; the relationship between graduate medical education (GME) programs…

A study was undertaken to develop guidelines for the future course of graduate medical education (GME) in New Jersey. General findings were that the current array and total number of hospital-based GME offerings by specialty and location appear sufficient, although attention must be paid to appropriate distribution; that the major basis of funding…

The report, one of a series resulting from a project to design planning procedures for local and State vocational agencies, describes LIONS (Labor and Industry Occupational Needs System), a computer system designed to provide forecasts of the demand for various occupational skills by area for the State of New Jersey. The methodology may have…

Payroll and progressive income taxes play an enormous role in the American fiscal system. The purpose of this study is to present some econometric evidence on the effects of taxes on married women, a group of growing importance in the American labor force. A testable model of labor supply is developed which permits statistical estimation of a…

Although times seemed ripe for far-reaching initiatives to safeguard the quality of engineering education, current political noise about the issue threatens to drown out the engineering community's message. However, the engineering community's theme should be that economic growth in a modern economy, that industrial policy, is based first and…

The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined the extent to which the financial aid provided under Title IV of the Higher Education Act to students enrolled in proprietary schools is being spent to train individuals for demand occupations. Job opening projections in 12 states were used to estimate job demand, the National Center for Education…

This report presents the background materials for a 1991 conference of the National Puerto Rican Coalition on labor force participation issues affecting Puerto Ricans. The first of three sections, "Shaping Tomorrow's Workforce: A Leadership Agenda for the 90's," calls for an effort to unite a fragmented collection of programs for…