Paul Harrington

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Associate Director, Center for Labor Market Studies
Associate Professor of Law, Policy and Society,

Office: 325 Richards
Telephone: (617) 373-2242
Email: p.harrington@neu.edu

Areas of Study

Human Resource Policy and Planning
Econonics of Education and Workforce Devolopment
Higher Education Policy and Planning

Current Sponsored Research Activities:

Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education: Public Higher Education Performance Indicators

This is a long-term project organized by the Board of Governors for Higher Education in Rhode Island. This research project includes a variety of studies such as:

The development of performance benchmarks and performance measures of the public higher education system in Rhode Island.
The organization and management of a data warehouse designed to analyze a range of student performance, behavior and outcomes within the state's public post secondary system.
Research on a variety of issues in higher education enrollment choices, including retention, finance, and employment outcomes.
Examining the transition from secondary to post-secondary institutions in Rhode Island.

National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, United States Department of Education

This is a long-term research project designed to examine the labor market and education experience of persons with disabilities

Developing new methods to track the post-secondary experiences of high school graduates with disabilities.
Analyzing the determinants of post-secondary enrollment and retention of recent high school graduates with disabilities.
Producing a series of labor force projections and age, gender and disablility statistics in New England.
Organizing a market segmentation system for job development and placement of persons with disabilities.

Pennsylvania Department of Labor:

This is a recent project that includes an analysis of the long-term labor market consequences of dropping out of high school in Pennsylvania and in the city of Philadelphia. This project also produces estimates of the fiscal costs of dropping out of high school in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.

Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development
Regional Workforce Development Strategic Planning Institution

This project provides a detailed analysis of the labor market conditions in sixteen regions of the Commonwealth including employment development laborforce trends, job vacancies and labor turnover trends, and institutional labor supply responses.

Davis Foundation / Strategies for Children

This project undertaken in cooperation with Opinion Dynamics Survey Research is designed to produce estimates of the demand for, as well as the costs of, creating a high quality early education delivery system in a major urban community in New England, and to also produce estimates of the potential supply of Pre-K teachers in the Springfield area.