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Hook, Jennifer L.; Courtney, Mark – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2010
In this issue brief, the authors explore how former foster youth in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa are faring in the labor market and what explains the variability in employment outcomes for these youth. First, they describe trends in former foster youths' employment from age 17 to 24. Then, they consider how former foster youths' characteristics…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Young Adults, Evidence, Foster Care
McHugh, Richard; And Others – 1990
The objective of this study was to explore a new method of analyzing the performance of substate economies. Conventional analyses of economic diversity and growth are limited by their reliance on static measures of economic structure. Such measures do not capture the patterns of growth dynamics or structural change a region may be experiencing.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Economic Research, Employment Patterns