The population growth, labor force participation, and educational attainment of Latinos in the U.S. influence the composition of the current and future U.S. society, economy, and workforce. In 2012, the Latino population in the United States is the youngest and fastest growing ethnic group, with the highest level of labor force participation…

Building on its previous work examining education and the economy, the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance), with generous support from State Farm[R], analyzed the economies of all fifty states and the District of Columbia to determine the economic benefits that states could see by improving high school graduation rates. Using a…

Event-history analyses of 97 New Jersey manufacturing plants during 1973-87 reveal that plant survival was related to investment in knowledge (better educated employees and new technologies), decentralized line-operating authority, less formalization of authority, either independence or relative autonomy from parent company, and industrywide…