Teachers Unions and Student Performance: Help or Hindrance? (2007)
The Future of Children - Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2007
Labor Exchange Policy in the United States (2005)
Balducchi, David E, Eberts, Randall W, O'Leary, Christopher J
Teachers’ Unions: Outcomes and Reform Initiatives (2002)
Eberts, Randall W., Hollenbeck, Kevin, Stone, Joe A.
No abstract submitted.
An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools (2001)
Randall W. Eberts, Kevin M. Hollenbeck, Kristine Kracker, Nancy Mack
Since their inception in 1991, the number of and the student enrollment in charter schools have burgeoned. However, little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. Proponents...
An economic analysis of municipal governments in a metropolitan setting. (1978)
Ph.D. (Economics) -- Northwestern University, 1978.
Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations for Planning Implementation
Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts
The proposed Back to Work Incentive Act of 2003 recommended personal reemployment accounts (PRAs) that would provide each eligible unemployment insurance (UI) claimant with a special account of up to...
Metropolitan wage differentials: can Cleveland still compete?
Randall W. Eberts, Joe A. Stone
A look at the Cleveland metropolitan labor market as a point of comparison to highlight how labor costs in a major industrial city fare with respect to other U.S. cities.
Randall W. Eberts, Lydia K. Leovic
Proceedings of the October 2, 1992 meeting of the Fourth District Economists' Roundtable, which looked at the North American Free Trade Agreement's likely impact on the U.S. and Midwest economies.
An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools
Randall W. Eberts, Kevin Hollenbeck
Since their inception in 1991, the number of and the student enrollment in charter schools have burgeoned. However, little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. Proponents...
A New WPRS Profiling Model for Michigan
Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system was established nationwide following the 1993 enactment of Public Law 103-152. The law requires state employment security agencies to...
Metropolitan wage differentials: can Cleveland still compete?
Randall W. Eberts, Joe A. Stone
A look at the Cleveland metropolitan labor market as a point of comparison to highlight how labor costs in a major industrial city fare with respect to other U.S. cities. ; A look at the Cleveland...
Identifying amenity and productivity cities using wage and rent differentials
Patricia E. Beeson, Randall W. Eberts
An explanation of how regional wage and rent differentials can be used to classify metropolitan areas according to their amenity and productivity characteristics.
Can state employment declines foretell national business cycles?
An investigation of whether it is possible to predict national recessions by following the employment performance of specific states or regions. The author compares state employment patterns to the...
Is this really a "white-collar recession"?
Randall W. Eberts, Erica L. Groshen
An analysis of whether the economic downturn that began in mid-1990 hit white-collar workers disproportionately hard. The authors examine the issue from several perspectives and find overwhelming...
Reemployment and Earnings Recovery among Older Unemployment Insurance Claimants
Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts
The rate of involuntary job loss among older workers has increased in recent years. Previous research has found that after job separation older workers take longer to get back in jobs, and experience...
Identifying productivity and amenity effects in interurban wage differentials
Patricia E. Beeson, Randall W. Eberts
This study focuses on the relative importance of amenity and productivity differences in determining wage differentials across urban areas. The approach developed takes advantage of the connection...
Dimensions in Cleveland's economy
An examination of the dynamics of business activity in Cleveland, Ohio, using data about the formation of new businesses and about the expansion, contraction, and closing of existing businesses in...
Labor cost differentials: causes and consequences
Joe A. Stone, Randall W. Eberts
A discussion of the complex relationship between labor costs and economic growth, with the contention that labor costs not only help determine rates of economic growth, but also respond to growth.
Has manufacturing's presence in the economy diminished?
Randall W. Eberts, John R. Swinton
An argument that the economic importance of manufacturing, although commonly thought to be declining, has remained relatively strong because of manufacturing's linkages with growth in other sectors...
Public infrastructure and economic development
Douglas Dalenberg, Randall W. Eberts
A discussion of how public infrastructure deterioration adversely affects urban economic development and why cities with an aging industrial base find it difficult to maintain and improve public...
What's happened to Ohio's manufacturing jobs?
An examination of net employment changes in Ohio's manufacturing sector through three recent periods, finding that weak overall growth stems more from a slowdown in job creation than from excessive...
Can competition among local governments constrain government spending?
Randall W. Eberts, Timothy J. Gronberg
An examination of the relationship between the number of local governmental units and the share of personal income going to local government expenditures, considering competition among both...
Do the earnings of manufacturing and service workers grow at the same rate over their careers?
Randall W. Eberts, Erica Groshen
A study indicating that service workers begin employment at a lower wage than comparable manufacturing workers, and then experience similar wage growth.
Accounting for the recent divergence in regional wage differentials
An explanation of the recent interruption in the long-term trend of regional wage convergence, showing that changes in the value that each census region places on worker characteristics account for...
Public infrastructure and regional economic development
A review of recent empirical studies concerned with how investment in public infrastructure affects various types of state- and local-level economic activity. The relationships between public and...
School reform, school size, and student achievement
Randall W. Eberts, Ellen K. Schwartz, Joe A. Stone
An estimation of the effect of school size on student achievement, with the results suggesting that market-based school reform could enhance student performance if the reform reduced school size.
The causes and consequences of structural changes in U.S. labor markets: a review
Randall W. Eberts, Erica L. Groshen
An overview of the proceedings of the October 1989 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland conference on the causes and consequences of structural changes in U.S. labor markets.
Regional wage convergence and divergence: adjusting wages for cost-of- living differences
Randall W. Eberts, Mark E. Schweitzer
An examination of the divergence of U.S. regional fortunes in the early 1980s, showing that once regional prices are factored in, relative wage rates continue to converge across regions. The trend in...
Employment creation and destruction: an analytical review
Randall W. Eberts, Edward B. Montgomery
A presentation of some new evidence on differences in the causes of high- and low-frequency movements in employment, focusing on whether the components of cyclical and secular (regional) variations...
Urban labor markets are characterized by the spatial proximity of households and businesses, which offers firms and workers advantages that lead to more efficient markets, enhanced productivity, and...
Design of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System and Evaluation in Michigan
Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
The Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, Public Law 103-152, require each state employment security agency to implement a Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. WPRS...
Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program
Kevin Hollenbeck, Jean Kimmel, Randall W. Eberts
This paper presents findings from a net impact evaluation of the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program. The JOBS program, a component of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (ADC)...
The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary information about the design of a pilot project to test the efficacy of profiling and referring welfare-to-work participants. Welfare reform...
Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads
Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts
Previous studies of the macro-economic determinants of welfare caseloads have had difficulty in explaining changes in welfare caseloads during the last decade or so using the simple macroeconomic...
The Role of Partnerships in Economic Development and Labor Markets in the United States
Randall W. Eberts, George A. Erickcek
This paper describes the role of local partnerships in the delivery of workforce and economic development services in the United States. Partnerships include both public and private organizations and...
Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Achievement in Michigan
Randall W. Eberts, Kevin Hollenbeck
Proponents of school reform have argued that charter schools and vouchers can provide adequate market pressure to improve the performance of traditional public schools. While the number of charter...
A Frontline Decision Support System for Georgia Career Centers
Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 emphasizes the integration and coordination of employment services. Central to achieving this aim is the federal requirement that local areas receiving WIA...
Estimating the contribution of urban public infrastructure to regional growth
An estimation of components of public capital stock for 38 metropolitan areas from 1953 to 1981, using the perpetual inventory method. These series are used to estimate the effect of public capital...
Unionization and cost of production: compensation, productivity, and factor-use effects
Randall W. Eberts, Joe A. Stone
A demonstration that unionization can affect cost of production through increases in compensation, through shifts in technologies, and through deviations from the least-cost combination of inputs...
Estimating the relationship between local, public and private investment
Randall W. Eberts, Michael S. Fogerty
A discussion of whether public outlays influence private investment, modeling the timing and effectiveness of public infrastructure as a local policy instrument.
Public infrastructure and regional economic development: a simultaneous equations approach
A study of how public capital stock impacts regional economic development, which jointly models the effects of local public infrastructure on personal income and the effect of personal income on the...
Structure, conduct, and performance in the local public sector
Randall W. Eberts, Timothy J. Gronberg
An examination of the relationship between the number of local governments within local labor markets and their expenditures, finding empirical support in both suburbs and central cities for the...
Cross-sectional analysis of public infrastructure and regional productivity growth
An analysis of the relationship between local public capital stock and regional manufacturing output, inputs, and productivity between 1965 and 1977. Results show that the effect of public capital...
Wagner's hypothesis: a local perspective
Randall W. Eberts, Timothy J. Gronberg
Wagner's hypothesis of an expanding public sector as an economy develops is tested using pooled time-series cross-sectional data for U.S. states from 1964 to 1986. Comparing government size among...
Union effects on teacher productivity.
This paper examines the effect of collective bargaining on several factors known to be determinants of student achievement in the public schools, particularly its effect on the teacher's allocation...
The effect of teacher unions on student achievement.
Randall W. Eberts, Joe A. Stone
Do teacher unions affect the productivity of public schools? The authors examine this question using individual student data from the Sustaining Effects Survey sponsored by the U.S. Department of...
Union effects on teacher productivity.
This paper examines the effect of collective bargaining on several factors known to be determinants of student achievement in the public schools, particularly its effect on the teacher's allocation...
The effect of teacher unions on student achievement.
Randall W. Eberts, Joe A. Stone
Do teacher unions affect the productivity of public schools? The authors examine this question using individual student data from the Sustaining Effects Survey sponsored by the U.S. Department of...
Agglomeration economies and urban public infrastructure
Eberts, Randall W., McMillen, Daniel P., P. C. Cheshire, E. S. Mills
This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on agglomeration economies and urban public infrastructure. Theory links the two concepts by positing that agglomeration economies exist...
After the doors close: assisting laid-off workers to find jobs
Displaced workers ; Wages ; Unemployment
Randall W. Eberts, George Kaufman ()
Bank supervision
Randall W. Eberts, Erica L. Groshon
Labor market
Richard D. Bingham, Randall W. Eberts ()
Economic policy - Midwest
Randall W. Eberts, Erica L. Groshen ()
Wages ; Labor market
Highway infrastructure: policy issues for regions
Roads ; Manufactures ; Middle West
Universities and the Startup of New Companies: Can We Generalize from Route 128 and Silicon Valley?
Bania, Neil, Eberts, Randall W, Fogarty, Michael S
In order to increase the commercialization of basic research, policymakers have tried to foster closer ties between university research and industry R&D. To empirically test whether there is a link...
Identifying Productivity and Amenity Effects in Interurban Wage Differentials.
Beeson, Patricia E, Eberts, Randall W
The relative importance of amenity and productivity differences in explaining wage differentials across metropolitan areas is estimated by utilizing the land and labor market clearing conditions for...
Cyclical versus Secular Movements in Employment Creation and Destruction
Randall W. Eberts, Edward Montgomery
This paper offers an analysis of cyclical and secular patterns in job turnover using establishment-level data. We provide evidence from multiple data sets that show that the job turnover process is...
Unionization and Cost of Production: Compensation, Productivity, and Factor-Use Effects.
Eberts, Randall W, Stone, Joe A
Unionization affects costs of production through compensation premia, technology shifts, and deviations from the least-cost combination of inputs. The first two are familiar, but the last is not....
Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads
Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts
Welfare caseloads have dropped dramatically in recent years, prompting many policy makers to declare an end to welfare as we have known it. The recent decline in caseloads has occurred concurrently...
Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program
Kevin Hollenbeck, Jean Kimmel, Randall W. Eberts
This paper presents findings from a net impact evaluation of the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program. The JOBS program, a component of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (ADC)...