Assistant Professor
Director, Undergraduate Program
Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management
1209 University of Oregon
156 Hendricks Hall
Eugene, OR 97403-1209
Faculty Advisory Committee, A&AA (elected, 2009-2010)
Phone: 541-346-0834
Email: leete@uoregon.edu

Ph.D. (economics), Harvard University (1992)
M.A. (economics), Harvard University (1988)
B.A. (economics), University of California-Berkeley (1982)

• Workforce Development Policy and Labor Market Institutions
• Poverty and Social Policy
• Nonprofit Economics and Nonprofit Labor Markets

• PPPM 636: Public Policy Analysis (Winter ’08)
• PPPM 524: Public and Nonprofit Financial Management (Spring ’08)

Staircases or Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Volatile Economy, (with C. Benner and M. Pastor), Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2007.

“Helping Legislators Legislate: An Executive Education Program for State Senators” (with S. Maser), Journal of Public Affairs Education, forthcoming 2007.

 “Work in the Nonprofit Sector”, in Richard Steinberg and Walter Powell, editors, The Nonprofit Sector Research Handbook, 2nd edition, Chapter 7, pp. 159-179, Yale University Press, 2006.

 “Oregon Case Study” (with N. Bania) in The Workforce Investment Act in Eight States: State Reports from a Field Network Study, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 2004.

“Labor Market Intermediaries in the Old and New Economies: A Survey of Worker Experiences in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley” (with C. Benner, M. Pastor, and S. Zimmerman), in Bob Giloth, editor, Workforce Intermediaries for the 21st Century, Temple University Press, 2004.

“Whither the Nonprofit Wage Differential? Estimates from the 1990 Census”, The Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2001. Reprinted in R. Steinberg, editor, The Economics of Nonprofit Enterprises, (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: Series Editor: Mark Blaug), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004.

“Public Housing Assistance, Public Transportation and the Welfare-to-Work Transition” (with N. Bania and C. Coulton), Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Volume 6, Number 2, 2003.

“History and Housework: Implications for Work Hours and Family Policy in Market Economies” in D. Figart and L. Golden, editors, Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives, London: Routledge Press, 2000.

“Wage Equity and Employee Motivation in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations,” The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, Vol. 43, pp. 423-446, 2000.

“The Impact of Welfare Reform on Local Area Labor Markets” (with N. Bania), The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 1999, Vol. 18, No. 1.

“Housing, Transportation and Access to Suburban Jobs by Welfare Recipients in the Cleveland Area” (with C. Coulton and N. Bania), in Sandra J. Newman, editor, The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing, Washington DC: Urban Institute Press, 1999.

“Welfare Reform: Using Local Labor Market Data for Policy Analysis and Program Planning” (with N. Bania and C. Coulton), Workforce Investment Quarterly (National Governor’s Association), Vol. 5, No. 1, 1998.

 “Black-White Wage Differences among Young Women, 1977-86” (with E. McCrate), Industrial Relations, April 1994.

“Assessing the Time-Squeeze: Hours Worked in the U.S., 1969-89” (with J. Schor), Industrial Relations, January 1994.

• The role of job access for urban welfare leavers
• The effects of income volatility on low-income households
• Wage equity in the nonprofit sector

this page updated September 22, 2009