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• Bootstrapping High-Tech: Evidence from Three Emerging High Technology Metropolitan Areas

  Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  This report shows how three metropolitan areas—Portland (OR), Kansas City, and Boise—became centers of high technology industry without the presence of a major university and offers important information for policymakers and practitioners interested in technology-based economic development outside of well-established high tech centers.

• Middle-Wage Jobs in Metropolitan America

  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  Despite the economic downturn, middle-wage jobs—good paying occupations for less educated workers—remain a prominent feature of the labor market in metropolitan areas nationwide. Though the rankings have surely changed during the current slump, the authors of this Metropolitan Economy Initiative report analyze the sectors and metro areas providing the most middle-wage jobs as a tool for better understanding of metropolitan job markets.

• Putting U.S. Cars on the High Road to Recovery

  Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  Putting the U.S. auto industry on the high road to recovery will require more than a quick financial fix. Susan Helper and Howard Wial urge automakers and the government to address the underlying impediments to their long-term viability.

• The Local Economic Impact of “Eds & Meds”: How Policies to Expand Universities and Hospitals Affect Metropolitan Economies

  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  A Metropolitan Economy Initiative examination of the impact of policies to expand health care and higher finds that such a strategy would raise the earnings of metropolitan residents by roughly the same amount as conventional business tax incentives.

• Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter?

  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  Harry Holzer examines the likely effects of “living wage” ordinances on employment outcomes, according to economic theory; as well as evidence on their actual effects.

• Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects : Vol. I

  Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT

  
  This book brings policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy.

• Where Workers Go, Do Jobs Follow?

  Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  An analysis of workers and jobs in the central cities and lower- and higher-income suburbs of the largest 150 metropolitan areas finds that growing concentrations of residents and jobs in higher-income suburbs indicate that local labor market policy should better maximize access to good jobs and skill-building opportunities for all workers throughout metropolitan regions.

• New Housing, Income Inequality, and Distressed Metropolitan Areas

  Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  A new report examines the link between income inequality and new housing construction in various metropolitan areas. Using data from the Census and Neighborhood Change Database on 215 metropolitan areas, the analysis compares trends between economically distressed metropolitan areas (those that experienced little or no population or economic growth) and non-distressed metropolitan areas.

• The Implications of Service Offshoring for Metropolitan Economies

  Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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• Bearing the Brunt: Manufacturing Job Loss in the Great Lakes Region, 1995-2005

  Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  This report presents the manufacturing employment and production in seven Great Lakes states and their metropolitan areas from 1995 through 2005.