scholarly journals Employer Size and Success in Manpower Training Programs for the Disadvantaged : A Dual Labor Market Analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron D. Fottler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Market Analysis ◽  
Dual Labor Market ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
Over Time

Manpower training programs for the disadvantaged in the United States have been shifting in emphasis over time from institutional to on-the-job training. As a result, it has become increasingly important for program administrators to place trainees in the private sector. Yet little is known about employer characteristics whish are conducive or not conducive to a successful experience. The data presented here indicates that larger compagnies are significantly more successful in these programs than are smaller compagnies.

scholarly journals Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John-Paul Ferguson ◽  
Rembrand Koning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
Firm Turnover ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Employment Integration

Racial segregation between American workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase has happened alongside the declines in within-establishment occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate between-area, between-establishment, and within-establishment trends in racial employment segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within-establishment processes but rather stems from differences in the turnover rates of more- and less-homogeneous workplaces. Present research on employment segregation focuses intently on within-firm processes. By doing so, we may be overstating what progress has been made on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further integrating firms.

scholarly journals Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
John-Paul Ferguson ◽  
Rembrand Koning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
Firm Turnover ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Employment Integration

Racial segregation between U.S. workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase happened alongside declines in within-establishment occupational segregation, on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate between- and within-establishment trends in racial employment segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within-establishment processes, but rather stems from differences in the turnover rates of more and less homogeneous workplaces. Present research on employment segregation focuses mainly on within-firm processes. By doing so, scholars may be overstating the country’s progress on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further integrating firms.

scholarly journals The Opioid Epidemic and the Labor Market

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Dionissi Aliprantis ◽  
Anne Chen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Drug Overdoses ◽  
Prescription Pain Relievers ◽  
Overdose Deaths ◽  
Over Time

Drug overdoses now account for more deaths in the United States than traffic deaths or suicides, and most of the increase in overdose deaths since 2010 can be attributed to opioids--a class of drugs that includes both prescription pain relievers and illegal narcotics. We look at trends in drug use and overdose deaths to document how the opioid epidemic has evolved over time and to determine whether it could be large enough to impact the labor force.

Introduction to Practicing Anthropology in the Private Sector: Reflections on Work Experiences and Opportunities for the Future of Business Anthropology

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Amy Goldmacher ◽  
Amy Santee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Customer Needs ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Public Sector Employment

Practicing anthropology in the private sector has been ongoing since the 1970s, when the number of anthropologists graduating with Ph.D.s exceeded the number of available academic positions in the United States, and when these anthropologists found employment in business and industry (Baba 1994). In the decades since, the potential for anthropologists' employment in the private sector is seemingly ever-increasing, as for-profit organizations continue to grow globally, encounter unfamiliar markets, focus more on customer needs, and require innovation (see, e.g., Cefkin's 2009 discussion on the growth of ethnography as a desired corporate competency). Although there are several MA and Ph.D. programs that focus specifically on business and design anthropology, the steps toward building a career and doing meaningful work as a business anthropologist remain relatively unclear for many anthropologists trained in traditional anthropology programs or in applied training programs that focus more on public sector employment.

scholarly journals Patterns in Special District Creation and Dissolution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B Goodman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Slow Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Special Districts ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
Special District ◽  
Organizational Mortality ◽  
Over Time

Special districts are a numerous and unique form of local government in the United States. Unlike cities, counties, and towns, special districts are created and dissolved often. Using tools from the industrial organizations literature, this analysis examines patterns in creation and dissolution of special districts using Census of Governments data from 1972 to 2017. Overall, the rate of entry (creation) has been declining over time while the rate of exit (dissolution) has remained steady. New districts tend to be small relative to existing districts and and exhibit slow growth over time. Lastly, special districts do not appear susceptible to the “liability of newness” or exhibit high levels of infant organizational mortality that is common in the private sector.

An Analysis of Fraudulent Qui Tam Actions Over Time in the United States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A. Fitzner ◽  
Charlie Bennett ◽  
June McKoy ◽  
Cara Tigue
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Over Time

The New Economic Populism and the Future of Inequality in the United States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Franko ◽  
Christopher Witko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Income Disparities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Over Time

The authors conclude the book by recapping their arguments and empirical results, and discussing the possibilities for the “new economic populism” to promote egalitarian economic outcomes in the face of continuing gridlock and the dominance of Washington, DC’s policymaking institutions by business and the wealthy, and a conservative Republican Party. Many states are actually addressing inequality now, and these policies are working. Admittedly, many states also continue to embrace the policies that have contributed to growing inequality, such as tax cuts for the wealthy or attempting to weaken labor unions. But as the public grows more concerned about inequality, the authors argue, policies that help to address these income disparities will become more popular, and policies that exacerbate inequality will become less so. Over time, if history is a guide, more egalitarian policies will spread across the states, and ultimately to the federal government.

Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data in the United States II

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred H. Cate ◽  
Beth E. Cate
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Reasonable Expectation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Us ◽  
Sector Data

This chapter covers the US Supreme Court’s position on access to private-sector data in the United States. Indeed, the Supreme Court has written a great deal about “privacy” in a wide variety of contexts. These include what constitutes a “reasonable expectation of privacy” under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution; privacy rights implicit in, and also in tension with, the First Amendment and freedom of expression; privacy rights the Court has found implied in the Constitution that protect the rights of adults to make decisions about activities such as reproduction, contraception, and the education of their children; and the application of the two privacy exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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