Where Are All the Good Jobs Going?: What National and Local Job Quality and Dynamics Mean for U.S. Workers

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199 Index Boldface numbers refer to figures and tables. Abowd, John M., 53, 129, 174n5 accommodation and food industry: earnings and employment growth correlation across metropolitan areas , 110; employment across firm-effects quintiles, 28; employment across firm-effects quintiles over time, 38; employment across personeffects quintiles over time, 40, 42; employment change, 132; employment for displaced workers, 115; firm dynamics, worker retention, and firm entry and exit, 134–35, 136; firms offering good jobs, 141; job change and displacement rates, 63; low wages, 29; mean firm and person fixed effects, 44; metropolitan area employment differences, 106; turnover across firm-effects quintiles , 28 Achievement Via Individual Determi+nation (AVID), 152 Achieving the Dream, 182n11 ACS (American Community Survey), 173n32 administrative services: earnings and employment growth correlation across metropolitan areas, 110; employment across firm-effects quintiles , 28; employment across firm-effects quintiles over time, 38; employment across person-effects quintiles over time, 40, 42; employment for displaced workers, 115; employment trends, 39; job change and displacement rates, 63; low wages, 29; mean firm and person fixed effects, 44; metropolitan area employment differences , 106; turnover across firmeffects quintiles, 28 African Americans. See Black Americans age differences: earnings, 30; employment across fixed-effects quintiles, 31, 34; job change and displacement rates, 64, 65–66 AGI (American Graduation Initiative), 157, 158 agriculture industry: earnings and employment growth correlation across metropolitan areas, 110; employment across firm-effects quintiles, 28; employment across firm-effects quintiles over time, 38; employment across person-effects quintiles over time, 40, 42; firm dynamics, worker 200 Index agriculture industry (cont.) retention, and firm entry and exit, 134–35; job change and displacement rates, 63; low wages, 27; mean firm and person fixed effects, 44; turnover across firm-effects quintiles, 28 American Community Survey (ACS), 173n32 American Graduation Initiative (AIG), 157, 158 American Indians. See Native Americans American Recovery and Reconstruction Act (ARRA), 162, 166 Anderson, Patricia, 129 Andersson, Fredrik, 173–74n3, 175n17 Appelbaum, Eileen, 148 apprenticeships, 152 ARRA (American Recovery and Reconstruction Act), 162, 166 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: employment across firm-effects quintiles, 34; employment across person-effects quintiles, 31; job change and displacement rates, 64 Autor, David, 105, 168 availability of good jobs, 6–9, 18–19, 41, 51 AVID (Achievement Via Individual Determination), 152 Bartik, Timothy, 163 BDS (Business Dynamics Survey), 173n33 Bernhardt, Annette, 148 Black Americans: employment across firm-effects quintiles, 34; employment across person-effects quintiles, 31; job change and displacement rates, 64, 66 Borjas, George, 175n12 Breaking Through, 182n11 Bureau of Labor Statistics Handbook of Methods, 21 Burgess, Simon, 129 business cycle effects, 36, 80, 84, 105 Business Dynamics Survey (BDS), 173n33 California: financial supports and services for disadvantaged and displaced workers, 167; study inclusion , 22 capital markets, 7 Career Academies, 151–52 career and technical education (CTE) programs, 151–52 career pathway programs, 156, 169 Cellini, Stephanie, 152 Census of Population, 14, 19–20, 30 Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), 162 CEO compensation, 7–8 certifications, 169 ChalleNGe program (National Guard), 153 Child Tax Credit (CTC), 165 churning, 27, 29–30, 129, 136 Clinton administration: subsidies and taxes for high-road employers, 160– 61 cognitive achievement, 175n12 Cohen, Mark, 181n8 collective bargaining, 3, 7, 12, 160 college awareness programs, 152 college graduates: employment across firm-effects quintiles, 34; employment across person-effects quintiles, 31; job change and displacement rates, 64 colleges, 153–56, 157, 169 Colorado: study inclusion, 22 community benefit agreements, 161–62 community colleges, 153–56, 157, 169 Index 201 compensation policies: changes in response to production needs and labor market situation, 23; for executives , 7–8; of high-road companies, 8, 159 competition, 7–8 construction industry: earnings and employment growth correlation across metropolitan areas, 110, 111– 12; employment across firm-effects quintiles, 28; employment across firm-effects quintiles over time, 38; employment across person-effects quintiles over time, 40, 42; employment change, 132; employment for displaced workers, 115; employment trends, 39, 41; firm dynamics, worker retention, and firm entry and exit, 134–35; firms offering good jobs, 141; high wages, 4, 27; job change and displacement rates, 63; less-educated workers in good jobs, 52; mean firm and person fixed effects , 44; metropolitan area employment differences, 106; prevailing wage laws, 161; turnover across firm-effects quintiles, 28 Costco, 8 Couch, Kenneth, 80 COWS (Center on Wisconsin Strategy), 162 CPS (Current Population Survey), 14, 59, 60, 61, 173n32 CTC (Child Tax Credit), 165 CTE (career and technical education) programs...