Harry J. Holzer

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Harry J. Holzer is affiliated with the following schools: Michigan State University, Georgetown University, Cornell University, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Harry Joseph Holzer is an American economist, educator and public policy analyst. Early life Holzer grew up in a rural area near Atlantic City, New Jersey. His parents, Simon and Suzanne , were Holocaust survivors from Poland. His father owned and operated a small chicken farm, while his mother was a seamstress and operated a fabric shop. His only sister, Marilyn, is an occupational therapist in Jerusalem.

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Harry J. Holzer's Published Works

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The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: What Has the Evidence Shown? (1991) (637)
Search Method Use by Unemployed Youth (1986) (584)
Demand Shifts, Population Adjustments, and Labor Market Outcomes during the 1980s (1996) (513)
Assessing Affirmative Action (1999) (443)
Informal Job Search and Black Youth Unemployment (1986) (408)
Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks, and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers* (2006) (338)
The Black Youth Employment Crisis (1986) (247)
What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers (1997) (236)
Are Training Subsidies for Firms Effective? The Michigan Experience (1993) (236)
Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes for Minority Workers (1998) (218)
Work search and travel among white and black youth. (1994) (214)
Declining employment among young black less-educated men: The role of incarceration and child support (2005) (210)
Hiring Procedures in the Firm: Their Economic Determinants and Outcomes (1987) (203)
Will Employers Hire Ex-Offenders? Employer Preferences, Background Checks, and Their Determinants (2001) (183)
Employment Barriers Facing Ex-Offenders (2003) (177)
What Does Affirmative Action Do? (1998) (157)
Job Queues and Wages (1991) (157)
Job Search by Employed and Unemployed Youth (1987) (156)
Industrial Shifts, Skills Levels, and the Labor Market for White and Black Males (1991) (143)
Affirmative action: What do we know? (2006) (138)
Within cities and suburbs: Racial residential concentration and the spatial distribution of employment opportunities across sub-metropolitan areas (2000) (132)
Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men (2006) (124)
Moving Up or Moving On: Who Advances in the Low-Wage Labor Market (2005) (124)
Black Job Applicants and the Hiring Officer's Race (2004) (121)
Public Transit and the Spatial Distribution of Minority Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2003) (119)
The Economic Costs of Poverty in the United States: Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor. Discussion Paper No. 1327-07. (2007) (107)
The economic costs of childhood poverty in the United States (2008) (101)
The Determinants of Employee Productivity and Earnings (1990) (98)
Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified? Evidence from Employer‐Employee Data on New Hires (1996) (97)
Spatial factors and the employment of blacks at the firm level (1996) (77)
Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers (1999) (74)
Why Do Small Establishments Hire Fewer Blacks Than Large Ones (1998) (74)
Job Performance and Retention among Welfare Recipients (2004) (71)
Reservation Wages and Their Labor Market Effects for Black and White Male Youth. (1986) (71)
Will employers hire welfare recipients? Recent survey evidence from Michigan (1999) (63)
Collateral Costs: The Effects of Incarceration on the Employment and Earnings of Young Workers (2007) (62)
Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm (1990) (62)
The Labor Market and Young Black Men: Updating Moynihan's Perspective (2009) (61)
Can We Improve Job Retention and Advancement among Low-Income Working Parents? (2005) (61)
America's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs: Education and Training Requirements in the Next Decade and Beyond (2008) (60)
Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms (2013) (60)
Black Applicants, Black Employees, and Urban Labor Market Policy☆ (2000) (57)
Black employment problems: New evidence, old questions (1994) (56)
Employment, Unemployment and Demand Shifts in Local Labor Markets (1989) (55)
What employers want (1996) (55)
Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: What do We Know? What Should We do? (2008) (55)
Job Vacancy Rates in the Firm: an Empirical Analysis (1990) (53)
Is it worth it? Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes for the disadvantaged (2014) (51)
Asymmetries and Rigidities in Wage Adjustments by Firms (1990) (47)
Are Suburban Firms More Likely to Discriminate Against African-Americans? (1998) (47)
What explains the continuing decline in labor force activity among young black men?1 (2005) (46)
Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients by Race (2003) (46)
AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN MIDDLE-SKILL JOBS (2007) (44)
Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search (1984) (43)
Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, 1992-1994: [Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles]: Version 3 (1998) (43)
Temporary Help Agencies and the Advancement Prospects of Low Earners (2007) (43)
Employer Skill Demands and Labor Market Outcomes of Blacks and Women (1998) (42)
Employers in the Boom: How Did the Hiring of Less-Skilled Workers Change during the 1990s? (2006) (40)
Trends in Employment Outcomes of Young Black Men, 1979-2000. JCPR Working Paper. (2001) (38)
Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies (2010) (37)
Good workers for good jobs: improving education and workforce systems in the US (2012) (37)
Escaping Low Earnings: The Role of Employer Characteristics and Changes (2004) (33)
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING POLICIES: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR LESS SKILLED ADULTS (2005) (33)
Where Are All the Good Jobs Going?: What National and Local Job Quality and Dynamics Mean for U.S. Workers (2011) (31)
Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students (2017) (30)
Better Workers for Better Jobs: Improving Worker Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market (2007) (29)
Unions and the Labor Market Status of White and Minority Youth (1982) (27)
Moving up or moving on (2005) (25)
Worker Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market: The Importance of Good Jobs (2003) (24)
Structural/Frictional and Demand-Deficient Unemployment in Local Labor Markets (1988) (24)
Are Jobs Available for Disadvantaged Workers in Urban Areas ? (1998) (24)
The Determinants of Employee Productivity and Earnings: Some New Evidence (1988) (23)
Left Behind in the Labor Market : Recent Employment Trends Among Young Black Men (2002) (23)
Reshaping the American Workforce in a Changing Economy (2007) (23)
How Can We Encourage Job Retention and Advancement for Welfare Recipients (2001) (21)
Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Recipients: What Happens When the Recession Comes? (2000) (21)
Job Queues and Wages: New Evidence on the Minimum Wage and Inter-Industry Wage Structure (1988) (21)
The Black Youth Employment Crisis: Summary of Findings (1986) (21)
Comparable worth: Is it a worthy policy? by Elaine Sorensen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, 166 pp., NPA (1995) (20)
Employer Hiring Decisions and Antidiscrimination Policy (1996) (20)
Immigration Policy and Less-Skilled Workers in the United States: Reflections on Future Directions for Reform (2011) (20)
Employment Issues and Challenges in Post-Katrina New Orleans (2006) (19)
Strong Students, Strong Workers: Models for Student Success through Workforce Development and Community College Partnerships (2009) (19)
Moving Up or Moving On: Workers, Firms and Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market (2005) (19)
Expanding the EITC to Help More Low-Wage Workers (2009) (19)
Helping Poor Working Parents Get Ahead Federal Funds for New State Strategies and Systems (2008) (18)
Where Workers Go, Do Jobs Follow? (2007) (17)
Measuring Discrimination in Education: Are Methodologies from Labor and Markets Useful?. (2003) (17)
Raising Job Quality and Skills for American Workers: Creating More-Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in the States. Discussion Paper 2011-10. (2011) (16)
Career Advancement Prospects and Strategies for Low-Wage Minority Workers (2000) (16)
THE INTERACTIONS OF WORKERS AND FIRMS IN THE LOW-WAGE LABOR MARKET (2002) (16)
MEETING THE DEMAND: HIRING PATTERNS OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS IN FOUR METROPOLITAN AREAS (2001) (15)
Young Blacks and Jobs - What We Now Know (1985) (15)
Collateral Costs : The Effects of Incarceration on Employment and Earnings Among Young Men (2007) (13)
Labor Market Experiences and Transitions to Adulthood. Discussion Paper No. 1319-06. (2006) (13)
Work-Based Learning to Expand Opportunities for Youth (2014) (13)
Structural Changes, Employment Outcomes, and Population Adjustments among Whites and Blacks: 1980-1990 (1995) (13)
BUILDING A NEW MIDDLE CLASS IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY (2017) (12)
The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market: Who’s Been Hurt and What We Should Do (2021) (12)
Just the Facts, Ma'am: Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the U.S. (2013) (11)
Firm-level training for newly hired workers: Its determinants and effects (2000) (11)
Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter? (2008) (11)
Did Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Reduce Employment? Evidence from Early State-Level Expirations in June 2021 (2021) (11)
Prisoner Reentry and the Institutions of Civil Society: Bridges and Barriers to Successful Reintegration (2002) (11)
Improving Employment Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students (2014) (10)
The Role of Skills and Jobs in Transforming Communities (2017) (9)
Institute for Research on Poverty (2004) (9)
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action (2002) (9)
Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes among Disadvantaged Youth. Discussion Paper No. 1412-13. (2013) (9)
Why Are Black Employers More Likely Than White Employers To Hire Blacks? Discussion Paper. (2001) (9)
Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients by Race. Discussion Paper. (2000) (9)
Can Work Experience Programs Work for Welfare Recipients (2002) (8)
The Workforce Investment Act: Reauthorization to Address the "Skills Gap" (2003) (8)
The economic impact of affirmative action in the US (2007) (8)
Improving Employment and Earnings in Twenty-First Century Labor Markets: An Introduction (2019) (7)
The economics of affirmative action (2004) (7)
Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students (2019) (7)
Work-Based Learning to Expand Jobs and Occupational Qualifications for Youth (2014) (7)
Cognitive Skills in the U.S. Labor Market: For Whom Do They Matter? (2015) (7)
A “Race to the Top” in Public Higher Education to Improve Education and Employment Among the Poor (2018) (6)
Escaping Poverty for Low-Wage Workers: The Role of Employer Characteristics and Changes. (2001) (6)
Labor Market Trends and Outcomes: What Has Changed since the Great Recession? (2021) (6)
SECTOR-BASED TRAINING STRATEGIES : THE CHALLENGES OF MATCHING WORKERS AND THEIR SKILLS TO WELL-PAYING JOBS (2016) (6)
Are Unemployed Black Youth Income Maximizers (1986) (4)
Creating Effective Education and Workforce Policies for Metropolitan Labor Markets in the United States. Discussion Paper No. 1394-11. (2011) (4)
Going, Going…Gone? The Evolution of Workforce Development Programs for the Poor Since the War on Poverty (2012) (4)
Employer Skill Needs and Labor Market Outcomes across Groups. (1995) (4)
Can We Solve Black Youth Unemployment (1988) (3)
Employers in the Low-Wage Labour Market: Is Their Role Important? (2005) (3)
Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States (2012) (3)
Economic Costs of Inadequate Investments in Workforce Development (2008) (3)
The US labor market in 2050: Supply, demand and policies to improve outcomes (2019) (3)
Enhancing Diversity through Affirmative Action: What Other Countries Can Learn from the United States' Experience (2010) (3)
Improving Opportunity Through Better Human Capital Investments for the Labor Market (2016) (3)
LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND EMPLOYMENT AMONG YOUNG MEN : TRENDS , CAUSES , AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS (2007) (2)
COVID-19’s Impacts on the Labor Market in 2020 (2021) (2)
Youth and the Labor Market: Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey. (1985) (2)
Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies. National Poverty Center Working Paper Series #10-04. (2010) (2)
Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction (2019) (2)
: NBER-Mathernatica Survey of Inner-City Black Youth: An Analysis of the Undercount of Older Youths (1986) (2)
Career and Technical Education in High School and Postsecondary Career Pathways in Washington State (2020) (2)
Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy (2001) (2)
Employed and Unemployed Job Search: a Comparison of Choices and Outcomes Among Youth (1986) (2)
Recent Employment Trends Among Black Men and Their Policy Implications (2015) (2)
Should the earned income tax credit rise for childless adults (2015) (1)
Utilization of Public and Private Job Search Mechanisms: The Experiences of Employers and Employees. Background Paper No. 18. (1989) (1)
Where are the Good Jobs? The Role of Local Geography (2005) (1)
On the Rationality of Black Youth Unemployment (1984) (1)
Why Are Black Employers More Likely to Hire African Americans than White Employers (2001) (1)
Holzer, Harry J., and Neumark, David (2006). Affirmative action: What do we know? The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26(2), 463-490 (2007) (1)
Reviving the Labor Market with Middle-Skill Jobs (2010) (1)
Employment for Young African American Males: Where the Jobs Are and What Employers Want (1999) (1)
Expanding the African American Middle Class: Improving Labor Market Outcomes (2005) (1)
Book Review: Dual City: Restructuring New York John Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells (Eds), 1991 New York: Russell Sage Foundation 477 pp., $39.95 hardback (1993) (1)
The Deterioration of Employment and Earnings Opportunities for Less Educated Young Americans: A Review of Evidence (1991) (1)
Priorities for Federal Workforce and Higher Education Policy. (2017) (1)
Six: The Labor Market for Ex-Offenders in Los Angeles: Problems, Challenges, and Public Policy (2004) (1)
Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market: A Look Ahead (2020) (1)
Career and Technical Education in High School and Postsecondary Pathways in Washington State. Working Paper No. 224-1119. (2019) (0)
Transit and the Spatial Distribution of Minority Employment : Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2001) (0)
Book Review: Labor Conditions: Race, Economics, and Corporate America (1986) (0)
Advancement Prospects of Low Earners (2011) (0)
The Effects of Immigration on the Employment Outcomes of Black Americans (2008) (0)
Building labor market skills among disadvantaged US workers: four-year college degrees and alternatives (2021) (0)
Title Public Transit and the Spatial Distribution of Minority Employment : Evidence from a Natural Experiment Permalink (2002) (0)
Housing Wealth and Higher Education: Building a Foundation for Economic Mobility (2011) (0)
Comments and Discussion (2007) (0)
Measuring Discrimination in Education: Are Methodologies from Labor and Markets Useful? (2003) (0)
About the authors (1991) (0)
Ending Welfare as We Know It (1997) (0)
Book Review: Labor Market: Youth and the Labor Market: Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey (1985) (0)
Employment Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 2021 (2021) (0)
Creating Effective Education and Workforce Policies for Metropolitan Labor Markets in the U.S. National Poverty Center Working Paper Series #11-31. (2011) (0)
Decision Points 08: Investment in Job Training (2008) (0)
Effects of Employer Skill Demands on Wages and Employment (1998) (0)
Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Recipients (2000) (0)
Affirmative Action: What Do We Know? Discussion Paper No. 1314-06. (2006) (0)
Funding for the Workforce Investment Act in Fiscal Year 2012 and Beyond (2012) (0)
Building a Foundation for Economic Mobility Housing Wealth and Higher Education : (2011) (0)
The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth (1981) (0)
Work Among Inner-City Black Youths (1986) (0)
Learning and Earning: Raising Labor Market Skills of Low-Income Adults and Youth (2014) (0)
1. Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search (2019) (0)
Should the Federal Government Fund Short-Term Postsecondary Certificate Programs? (2021) (0)
Work in Temp Agencies: Path Forward or Way Back? (2007) (0)
Brief Notices (2012) (0)
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings? (2022) (0)
Learning Together: Building Evidence to Close the Opportunity Gap for Low-Income Youth (2017) (0)
Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America (1994) (0)
Take Note (2006) (0)
Employment and Nonemployment (1986) (0)
Book reviews: Income and social security and substandard working conditions (1994) (0)
New Research on the Minimum Wage (2018) (0)
Technology and Workforce Readiness (2019) (0)
Reducing Poverty the Democratic Way (2018) (0)
Against the Tide (2009) (0)
Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students. Working Paper No. 218-0519. (2019) (0)
Labor Force Participation and Employment among Young Men: Trends, Causes, and Policy Implications. Background Paper No. 21. (1989) (0)

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