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What's New at WEDI
Newly Revised, in August 2006, the new Using Labor Market Information to Understand Your Local Economy: A Wisconsin Cookbook is online! What data should we use to analyze our labor market, where do we find the data, and how do we make sense of it? The Cookbook is intended to answer these questions. The guide provides an overview of labor market analysis, a list of prepared labor market reports for Wisconsin and its communities, and ends with a "cookbook" approach to performing your own labor market analysis. The appendices provide more information on data sources including descriptions, uses, and limitations, and a glossary of commonly used labor market terms. July 2004. 
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Economic Development and Early Childhood Describes the relationship between early care and education and economic development in Wisconsin. Defines the economic sector, describes potential roles for employers and provides some insight into the relationship between early learning and workforce development. January 2006. (PDF File)
Early Childhood and Economic Development: A Brief Synopsis of Research Reports Pertinent to Wisconsin A brief guide for economic developers to the economic impact literature of early childhood as it can be applied to Wisconsin. These studies document the three general ways in which early childhood care and economic development are related. January 2006. (PDF File)
Publications
Defining Economic Development in Wisconsin
- A Short History of Economic Development in Wisconsin and the Rise of Professional Economic Development
- Facilitating Entrepreneurial Growth Companies in Wisconsin
- Regional Economic Development Collaboration: Wisconsin's Experience.
- Survey of Local Economic Development Organizations.
- What is Economic Development or Why the Buck ($) Starts Here
Economic Development How-To
- A Guide to Preparing the Economic Development Element of a Comprehensive Plan (Smart Growth)
- Measuring Economic Development Return on Investment (ROI): Wisconsin Models
- Resources for Communities Facing Plant Closings and Employee Layoffs
- Using Labor Market Information to Understand Your Local Economy: A Wisconsin Cookbook
Economic Development Impact Studies
- Evaluation of Forest Products Industry Cluster in Wisconsin and Recommendations for Economic Development Actions
- Laborshed Analysis for Economic Development.
- Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) & Economic Development: Combining Infrastructure Investment & Community Growth Needs.
- The Economic Development Impact of Annexation
- Wisconsin's Insurance Industry
- Wisconsin's Forest Products Industry 2004 Business Climate Status Report
- Wisconsin's Forest Products: A Cut Above
- Wisconsin Land Use Megatrends: Forests.
Economic Development and Early Childhood
WEDI Services
The Wisconsin Economic Development Institute, Inc. (WEDI) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan foundation formed to conduct research and education designed to increase the effectiveness of economic development efforts.
Through comprehensive research and consulting services, WEDI can also provide the public, decision makers and organizations with critical information to enable them to better address and improve economic conditions.
Do you have any major economic information/data or how-to-do economic development needs? If you do, please contact WEDI, maybe we can help.
Wisconsin Economic Development Institute, Inc.