Labor Underutilization Problems of U.S. Workers Across Household Income Groups at the End of the Great Recession: A Truly Great Depression Among the Nation's Low Income Workers Amidst Full Employment Among the Most Affluent
Prepared by Andrew Sum and Ishwar Khatiwada with the assistance of Sheila Palma for the J.S. Mott Foundation in Flint, MI, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, February 2010
The Deep Depression in Blue Collar Labor Markets in the U.S.: Their Implications For Future Economic Stimulus and Workforce Development Policies
Prepared by Andrew Sum, Paul Harrington, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Misha Trubskyy & Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, December 2009
Prepared by Andrew Sum, Neeta Fogg, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Sheila Palma with Jacqui Motroni and Paulo Tobar, November 2008
Prepared by Andrew Sum & Ishwar Khatiwada with the assistance of Joseph McLaughlin & Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, August 2008
Prepared by Andrew Sum, Joseph McLaughlin & Ishwar Khatiwada with the assistance of Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, February 2008
Prepared by Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Paulo Tobar & Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, August 2007
The Projected Summer 2007 Job Outlook for the Nation’s Teens and the Case for a Federally-Funded Summer Jobs Creation Program
Prepared by Andrew Sum & Joseph McLaughlin, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, April 2007
Prepared by Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Sheila Palma & Paulo Tobar with Kamen Madjarov, Jacqui Motroni & Vladlena Sabodash, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University and MassINC, December 2007
This research assesses the health of the state’s supply of labor, both now and into the future. A key question is whether the state has an adequate supply of qualified workers to fuel our next round of economic expansion.
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Prepared by Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Paulo Tobar, with Jacqui Motroni, Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies Northeastern University
Prepared for: Boston Youth Transitions Task Force and Boston Private Industry Council Boston, Massachusetts January 2007...
Too Big to Be Seen: The Invisible Dropout Crisis in Boston and America, a report from the Boston Youth Transitions Task Force, May 2006 PDF
High School Dropouts 2007-08 Massachusetts Public Schools
In the 2007-08 school year, a total of 3.4 percent (9,959 dropouts) of students in grades nine through twelve dropped out. This rate was four-tenths of a percentage point lower than the rate for the 2006-07 school year. Read report...
Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development Job Vacancy Survey 2thQuarter2009
New England Regional Labor Force Developments and Their Workforce Development Implications presentation by Andy Sum, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University September 2006 PPT
"The Deterioration in the Labor Market Fortunes of Massachusetts High School Students and Young Dropouts, 2000-2004: Implications for the Connecting Activities and Other Workforce Development Programs to Boost Teen Employment Prospects", Sum, A., Madjarov, K., McLaughlin, J. April 2006 PDF
"New Foreign Immigrant Inflows into Massachusetts, 2000-2005: An Assessment Of Their Size, Characteristics, and Impacts on State Population and Labor Force Growth" Sum, A., J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. for Commonwealth Corporation, February 2006 PDF
"New Foreign Immigrant Inflows into Massachusetts, 2000-2005: An Assessment Of Their Size, Characteristics, and Impacts on State Population and Labor Force Growth" Sum, A., J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. February 2006 prepared for Commonwealth Corporation PDF
"Massachusetts Labor Markets in Mid-2005:
An Assessment of Job Vacancy and Unemployment Developments and Their Implications for Workforce Development Policy", Sum, A., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. February 2006 PDF
"Employment And Job Vacancy Developments Across Industries Of Massachusetts And Local Workforce Development Areas/ Economic Development Districts: Their Implications For Future Job Training And
Workforce Development Initiatives", Sum, ., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. December 2005 PDF
"Wage And Salary Employment Trends In Massachusetts, 1982-2005:
Findings On Recent Job Growth And Decline Across Industrial
Sectors And Geographic Areas Of The State, 2001-2005," Sum, A. November 2005 PDF
"Recent Trends in the Levels Distribution and Adequacy Of the Annual Earnings of Massachusetts Workers: Implications for the Boston Workforce Development Initiative", Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., and Palma, S, November 2004... PDF
"A Commonwealth Growing Apart: Family Income in Massachusetts: , Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., Palma, S., Tobar, P. September 2004 PDF
This report looks at changes in the economic well-being of families in various regions of Massachusetts, examining differences in the levels and growth rates of real median family in comes in a wide array of substate areas over the 1990s and, in some cases, the 1980s.
"Treading Water in Quicksand: A Look at Poverty, Income Inadequacy and Self Sufficiency in Massachusetts", Sum, A., Fogg, N., Khatiwada, I., Peron, S. and Palma, S. September 2004 PDF
This report analyzes the extent of in come inadequacy challenges among Massachusetts families at the end of the 1990s with updates through 2003. Three alternative measures of family in come inadequacy were used in this study: 1) the poverty in come thresholds of the federal government; 2) a measure of the low in come status of families as re presented by 200 per cent of the existing poverty in come thresholds; and 3) the Family Economic Self Sufficiency (FESS) standard of The Women's Union and Wider Opportunities for Women.
"Family Income Developments in Massachusetts During the 1990s: Mediocre Growth for the Average Family Amidst Sharply Rising Income Inequality, Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., Trubs'kky, M., and Palma, S., January 2004... PDF
"Changes in the Economic Well Being of Families in Substate Areas of Massachusetts:
Implications for the Future Targetting of Economic Development and Workforce Development Programs", Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., Palma, S., and Tobar, P., June, 2004... PDF
"Labor Market Problems in Massachusetts From the End of the Labor Market Boom in
2000 Through 2003", Khatiwada, I., Sum, A., and Palma, S., April 2004... PDF
Workers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are in trouble. Between 2000 and 2003, the Commonwealth lost 4.1% of its payroll jobs, a rate three-and-one-half times higher than the national average. This gave Massachusetts the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of job loss with a decline of 215,000 or 6.4%. Even as much of the country experiences an economic recovery, Massachusetts has yet to add any new net wage and salary jobs since last fall. In the last three years, all Massachusetts workers (especially those with no post-secondary education), have struggled to keep their jobs, and those unemployed have found their periods of unemployment stretching longer.
The following reports have been prepared by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University for the Workforce Solutions Group:
"Occupational Employment and Job Vacancy Developments in Massachusetts 2000-2005: Implications for Future Workforce Development Policy" Sum, A., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. April 2006 PDF
"Massachusetts Labor Markets in Mid-2005: An Assessment of Job Vacancy and Unemployment Developments and Their Implications for Workforce Development Policy", Sum, A., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. February 2006 PDF
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