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Training in Transition

A free webinar featuring four speakers from the Yang-Tan Institute
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Training in Transition

Labor & Trade Economics Workshop: Jessie Handbury

Jessie Handbury Demographic Preferences and Income Segregation We study how preferences over the demographic composition of co-patrons affects income segregation in shared spaces. To distinguish demographic preferences from tastes for other venue attributes, we study venue choices within business chains. We find two notable regularities: preferences for high-income co-patrons are similar across racial groups, and racial homophily does not vary by income. These demographic preferences are economically large, explain much of the cross-group variation in exposure to high-income co-patrons, and correlate with movers’ neighborhood choices.

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Labor & Trade Economics Workshop: Jessie Handbury

Public Sector Labor Struggles, Then and Now

Given the turmoil unfolding currently in the federal workforce and the ramifications for civil servants at every level of government—particularly those working in health and educational services—now would be an apt time to talk about what’s happening in terms of organizing and advocacy for public-sector workers, to help put these struggles in historical context, and to think broadly about the impact of these attacks on the public workforce and social services. This conversation will yield ideas about how communities, educational institutions, and labor groups might defend crucial public resources going forward. Speakers: A professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, Eric Blanc is author of the substack Labor Politics as well as the new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Joseph McCartin is a professor of American history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. McCartin's scholarship focuses on the intersection of labor organization, politics, and public policy. He is the author of more than 130 articles, chapters, and reviews in the fields of labor history and labor studies. Todd Dickey is an assistant professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University where his research and teaching centers on workplace conflict management, federal sector labor relations, and labor-management partnership in the public and nonprofit sectors. From 2022-2024, Todd served as Advisor to the Chairman at the Federal Labor Relations Authority where he assisted with the implementation of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment’s federal sector labor relations recommendations. Aurora Rojer is a public school social studies teacher and secretary of the Ithaca Teachers Association (ITA). She is also co-chair of the ITA Contract Action Team, who are currently bargaining a contract. MT Snyder is a MILR graduate and Field Examiner with the National Labor Relations Board in San Francisco. She is a rank and file member of the National Labor Relations Board Union and an organizer with the Federal Unionists Network.

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Public Sector Labor Struggles, Then and Now

Partnering for Disability Employment: Drafting Effective Interagency Agreements, April 9

An in-person workshop about the importance of effective agreements and best practices for drafting them
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Partnering for Disability Employment: Drafting Effective Interagency Agreements, April 9

Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Eric Chyn

Eric Chyn Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds? Boys are less likely than girls to enter college, a gap that is often attributed to a lack of non-cognitive skills such as motivation and self-discipline. We study how being classified as gifted – determined by having an IQ score of 116 or higher – affects college entry rates of disadvantaged children in a large urban school district. For boys with IQ’s around the cutoff, gifted identification raises the college entry rate by 25-30 percentage points – enough to catch up with girls in the same IQ range. In contrast, we find small effects for girls. Looking at course-taking and grade outcomes in middle and high school, we find large effects of gifted status for boys that close most of the gaps with girls, but no detectable effects on standardized tests scores of either gender. Overall, we interpret the evidence as demonstrating that gifted services raise the non-cognitive skills of boys conditional on their cognitive skills, leading to gains in educational attainment.

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Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Eric Chyn

Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century

Please join us for the 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture. Our honored speaker is Annelise Orleck, professor of history and co-chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College.
Brooklyn fast-food workers, New York, NY (2015)
Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century

The Life and Legacy of Lois Gray: Honoring Labor Innovation

The Worker Institute and the Climate Jobs Institute are pleased to offer sponsorship opportunities for our 2025 celebration, The Life and Legacy of Lois Gray: Honoring Labor Innovation.

Lois Gray
The Life and Legacy of Lois Gray: Honoring Labor Innovation

Labor Economics Workshop: Raffaella Sadun

Raffaella Sadun

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Labor Economics Workshop: Raffaella Sadun

Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Davide Coluccia

Davide Coluccia

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Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Davide Coluccia

Working Together: Advancing Disability Inclusion in NYS Workplaces

In-person, day-long conference for disability service providers, transition educators, policymakers, businesses, and self-advocates.
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Working Together: Advancing Disability Inclusion in NYS Workplaces