Economic Growth
Economic Commentary
- A Closer Look at Cleveland's Latest Poverty Ranking (02.15.07)
- Paths to Prosperity: Knowledge is Key for Fourth District States (08.06)
- Angel Investing (02.06)
- This Is Bangalore Calling: Hang Up or Speed Dial? (01.05)
- Income Growth and Disparity in the United States, 1929-2003 (11.04)
- The nature of economic change [pdf]
- Economic policy for our era: the Ohio experience
- Answering the challenges of creating economic opportunity [pdf]
- How much of economic growth is fueled by investment-specific technological progress? [pdf]
- Understanding differences in regional poverty rates [pdf]
Annual Report Essays
Education
Economic Commentary
- Human Capital and the Challenge of Persistent Poverty in Appalachia (02.01.07)
- Vouchers and the Cleveland Scholarship Program: Little Progress So Far (03.06)
- Should Ohio Invest in Universal Preschooling? (02.05)
- Losing Its Minds? Evaluating "Brain Drain" in Ohio (01.05)
- A national voice, a regional view [pdf]
- Government-subsidized training: a plan for prosperity? [pdf]
Conference Summaries
Annual Report Essays
Employment
Economic Commentary
- Employment Growth, Job Creation, and Job Destruction in Ohio (04.06)
- Cleveland (on the) Rocks (03.06)
- Labor Productivity Growth across States (09.05)
- Employment surveys are telling the same (sad) story [pdf]
- The economic rise of China: threat or opportunity? [pdf]
- Will increasing the minimum wage help the poor? [pdf]
- State employment 1995: slowing to a recession?
- Welfare reform and the cyclicality of welfare programs
- Jobs creation and government policy
- Another look at part-time employment [pdf]
- Regional wage convergence and divergence: adjusting wages for cost-of-living differences [pdf]
Working Papers
- The effects of minimum wages throughout the wage distribution [pdf]
- Firms' wage adjustments: a break from the past? [pdf]
Economic Review
- The employment of nations — a primer [pdf]
- Regional variations in white-black earnings [pdf]
- An introduction to the search theory of unemployment [pdf]
- What labor market theory tells us about the "New Economy" [pdf]
- Unemployment and economic welfare [pdf]
- Workforce composition and earnings inequality [pdf]
Energy
Economic Commentary
- From market failure to market-based solution: policy lessons from clean air legislation
- The sectoral and regional effects of oil shocks: who's over a barrel? [pdf]
- The energy tax: who pays? [pdf]
Manufacturing
Economic Commentary
- Why are we losing manufacturing jobs? [pdf]
- Money, manufacturing, and the strong dollar [pdf]
- Are service-sector jobs inferior? [pdf]
- Are the Great Lakes cities becoming service centers? [pdf]