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The Center for Workforce Innovation and Solutions manages employment and training services for Branch, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph counties under the Michigan Works! umbrella. Through collaborative partnerships and a comprehensive, intersectional approach, CWIS strives to develop and implement high quality services and systemic changes that result in positive impacts for both workers and employers.

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Michigan Works! Southwest

Michigan Works! Southwest manages federal and state programs that prepare the workforce to meet the current and emerging needs of business and industry. Through fostering collaborative partnerships, its team is dedicated to continuous improvement and meaningful transformations in the people, businesses, and communities it serves.

Employer Resource Network

The Employer Resource Network® collaborates with employers, non-profits, community colleges, and the public sector to provide individualized services aimed at improving employee retention and productivity.

Pulse

Pulse collaborates with key partners to ensure resources are available for providing equitable access to early childhood development experiences, to create and improve learning environments, and to promote the healthy development of children. The foundational belief is that when children thrive, the entire community benefits.

Neighborhood Employment Hubs

Overseen by Michigan Works! Southwest, Neighborhood Employment Hubs provide comprehensive employment services to residents in marginalized communities in Battle Creek, Michigan.

NHQI July 2024

Upjohn Institute New Hires Quality Index for July 2024 dips 0.1 percent in third monthly decline, plus annual Labor Day look at actual real wage growth

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Regional Strategies and Industrial Clusters

Our focus is on examining the competitiveness and dynamics of industries and clusters, analyzing the resources available in a region that support businesses and how they contribute to job creation and economic growth. We also conduct in-depth studies of specific regions to understand their economic structure, workforce, physical infrastructure, and other resources.

Community Assessment, Analysis, and Policy

We analyze local economic and cultural data to help communities develop policies and strategies for improving their economic and social environments. Drawing on research from successful models, we provide expertise in addressing community issues.

NHQI September 2024

Upjohn Institute New Hires Quality Index drops 0.1 percent in September, with recent decline driven by full-time hires; part-time hires see gains

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Workforce and Talent Assessments

With our workforce development projects, we continue the legacy of Dr. Upjohn, who created a co-op farm during the Great Depressions where displaced workers could provide for their families. By understanding the wages and skills of workers, we craft workforce strategies to help a region or community grow its economy. Our work includes wage and benefit surveys, workforce education and skill gap analysis, migration, commuting pattern analysis, and more.

The Regional team’s focus is on applied economic research and technical assistance. It addresses issues in regional economies, economic development, workforce/occupational development, evaluation, public policy development and economic impact modeling and analysis. The team assists corporate, nonprofit, economic and workforce development entities along with all levels of government in problem resolution and strategic decision making. Besides offering a comprehensive set of economic development services, the Upjohn regional team also provides land use and resource planning, mapping capabilities, and the Regional Datahub.

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Regional Strategies and Industrial Clusters

Our focus is on examining the competitiveness and dynamics of industries and clusters, analyzing the resources available in a region that support businesses and how they contribute to job creation and economic growth. We also conduct in-depth studies of specific regions to understand their economic structure, workforce, physical infrastructure, and other resources.

Community Assessment, Analysis, and Policy

We analyze local economic and cultural data to help communities develop policies and strategies for improving their economic and social environments. Drawing on research from successful models, we provide expertise in addressing community issues.

Workforce and Talent Assessments

With our workforce development projects, we continue the legacy of Dr. Upjohn, who created a co-op farm during the Great Depressions where displaced workers could provide for their families. By understanding the wages and skills of workers, we craft workforce strategies to help a region or community grow its economy. Our work includes wage and benefit surveys, workforce education and skill gap analysis, migration, commuting pattern analysis, and more.

Infrastructure and Land Use Policy

We support local governments and economic development agencies by creating master plans, land-use plans, broadband plans, and transportation plans, helping communities optimize the use of shared resources so the community can flourish now and in the future.

Housing Analysis and Planning

We create housing plans that provide current assessment data, supply and demand information, and strategies for a balanced community. We also offer collaboration opportunities and policy recommendations to address the existing gaps in the housing market, fostering workforce expansion and economic growth.

Emily Petz, Lee Adams, Gerrit Anderson, Dakota McCracken, and Brian Pittelko
Emily Petz, Lee Adams, Gerrit Anderson, Dakota McCracken, and Brian Pittelko
Kathleen Bolter, Val Klomparens, and Bridget F. Timmeney
Conducting Surveys

Often, the right data to inform a project does not exist. We use surveys to collect primary data bridge this gap, generating unique datasets and uncovering valuable insights not found elsewhere. From empowering local businesses with wage and benefit data to informing housing plans through community input, surveys gather primary data to fuel research and connect stakeholders, driving informed decisions.

Geospatial Analysis

Geographic Information Systems tools store, visualize, and analyze spatial data, offering crucial insights for planning and economic development. We leverage geospatial analysis (spatial data enrichment and aggregation, overlay analysis, and point pattern analysis) to provide valuable insight into regional data that traditional methods of analysis overlook. Moreover, we use web- based mapping tools to visualize spatial data for our clients and partners to access the same data without requiring specialized software.

Emily Petz, Lee Adams, Gerrit Anderson, Dakota McCracken, and Brian Pittelko
Emily Petz, Lee Adams, Gerrit Anderson, Dakota McCracken, and Brian Pittelko
Evaluation

We provide program evaluation to assess and improve the impact of social interventions such as new treatment methods, service innovations, and other practices and initiatives. We seek to understand precisely why the changes occur by studying purpose and original objectives, what was predicted and achieved, how it was accomplished, the role of specific players, and factors affecting implementation.

Timothy J. Bartik; Jim Robey; Claudette Robey; Brian Pittelko; Nathan Sotherland; Kenneth E. Poole , Project Principal; Ellen Harpel , Project Manager; Cathy Katona; Jaleel Reed; Mereb Hagos; Lee Winkler; and Allison Forbes
George A. Erickcek, Brad R. Watts, Larry Ledebur, Claudette Robey, Daila Shimek, Kevin O'Brien, Andrew Batson, Jim Robey, Jacob Duritsky, and Kim Merik
George A. Erickcek, Jim Robey, Claudette Robey, Brian Pittelko, Marie Holler, and Don Edgerly
Economic Impact Analysis

We conduct economic impact analysis that helps communities understand the significance of industries or companies in their local economy, assess job implications from economic changes, and determine appropriate investment strategies. These studies provide quantitative estimates of how the local economy, or a specific region, responds to a stimulus, whether positive or negative. By tracing connections across various economic sectors, they calculate multiplier effects, demonstrating how initial impacts ripple through the economy. Regions for economic impact analysis can vary, ranging from municipalities to larger geographic areas with shared economic characteristics, such as a county, metropolitan statistical areas, state, or Census regions.

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Conducting Surveys


Often, the right data to inform a project does not exist. We use surveys to collect primary data bridge this gap, generating unique datasets and uncovering valuable insights not found elsewhere. From empowering local businesses with wage and benefit data to informing housing plans through community input, surveys gather primary data to fuel research and connect stakeholders, driving informed decisions.
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Evaluation
We provide program evaluation to assess and improve the impact of social interventions such as new treatment methods, service innovations, and other practices and initiatives. We seek to understand precisely why the changes occur by studying purpose and original objectives, what as predicted and achieved, how it was accomplished, the role of specific players, and factors affecting implementation. In addition to tracking measurable outcomes in dashboards and modeling data with quantitative experiments, we also use qualitative methods such as surveys, focus groups, and interviews to provide recommendations on developing policies that improve a process, project, or specific intervention.
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Economic Impact Analysis
We conduct economic impact analysis that helps communities understand the significance of industries or companies in their local economy, assess job implications from economic changes, and determine appropriate investment strategies. These studies provide quantitative estimates of how the local economy, or a specific region, responds to a stimulus, whether positive or negative. By tracing connections across various economic sectors, they calculate multiplier effects, demonstrating how initial impacts ripple through the economy. Regions for economic impact analysis can vary, ranging from municipalities to larger geographic areas with shared economic characteristics, such as a county, metropolitan statistical areas, state, or Census regions.
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Geospatial Analysis


Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools store, visualize, and analyze spatial data, offering crucial insights for planning and economic development. We leverage geospatial analysis (spatial data enrichment and aggregation, overlay analysis, and point pattern analysis) to provide valuable insight into regional data that traditional methods of analysis overlook. Moreover, we use web-based mapping tools to expose and visualize spatial data for our clients and partners to access the same data without requiring specialized software.

Institute research focuses on labor markets by addressing several core areas: the causes of unemployment and the effectiveness of social safety net programs in mitigating its effects; education and training systems to improve workers’ employability and earnings; and the influence of state and local economic development policies on local labor markets. The Institute also assesses emerging trends affecting workers and labor markets in its core research areas.

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Job Quality & Economic Security

Our research explores not just the number of jobs, but also the quality of those jobs and how well they support stable households and communities.

Social Insurance & Safety Net

Examinations of social safety net programs are central to the Upjohn Institute’s mission to address causes and solutions to unemployment. Our research assesses effectiveness of current social insurance programs and explores other strategies to keep people in stable jobs and minimize the effect of economic downturns.

Education & Workforce Development

Building and maintaining skills for the labor force is a lifelong process, starting with prekindergarten programs and continuing throughout a worker’s career. The Upjohn Institute’s research elucidates how each learning stage and program contributes to a strong workforce.

Economic Development

Upjohn Institute research offers insight into specific industries and the labor market as a whole, from locally to nationally and internationally and from both the supply and demand sides. Focal areas include manufacturing, tax incentives and regional collaboration.

Working Papers
November 2024
Author(s): Justin Tyndall
The provision of public transportation can improve the accessibility of work opportunities. However, predicting the labor market effects of new transit infrastructure is difficult because of endogenous worker decisions. I examine a large public-transit rail project on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Using block-level commuter-flow and travel-time estimates, I propose and estimate a quantitative spatial model of location and mode choice for workers. I estimate that the new rail system increases public-transit-mode share and the employment rate but does not reduce the average commute duration, because of endogenous worker sorting. Low-income workers on Oahu capture a significant share of transit’s direct benefits because of their relative preference for both transit and the neighborhoods served by rail.
November 2024
Author(s): Josep M. Nadal-Fernandez, Gabrielle Pepin, and Kane Schrade
The authors tie information from reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that are collected to administrative caseload and expenditure data to document several strategies that states currently use to comply with federal work requirements. They estimate that the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 will increase the stringency of work requirements in 23 states and that 5 states will begin to fall short of requirements. They also note that several compliance strategies available to those states do not encourage work, and they discuss changes in states’ work requirements that would promote better long-term economic and labor market outcomes for TANF recipients.
October 2024
Author(s): Timothy J. Bartik
This paper provides estimates that lead to better U.S. labor market definitions. Current U.S. labor market definitions—for example, metropolitan areas and commuting zones—are unsatisfactory because they are ad hoc and usually do not correspond to commonly used local planning areas. This paper proposes basing U.S. labor market definitions on how a job shock to a county affects nearby counties’ employment rates.
October 2024
Author(s): Brian J. Asquith and Evan Mast
Local population decline has spread rapidly since 1970, with half of counties losing population between 2010 and 2020. The workhorse economic models point to net out-migration, likely driven by changing local economies and amenities, as the cause of this trend. However, we show that the share of counties with high net out-migration has not increased. Instead, falling fertility has caused migration rates that used to generate growth to instead result in decline. When we simulate county populations from 1970 to the present holding fertility at its initial level, only 10 percent of counties decline during the 2010s.
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