The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is a nonprofit
research organization devoted to finding and promoting solutions to
employment-related problems at the national, state, and local levels. It is an
activity of the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation, which was
established in 1932 to administer a fund set aside by the late Dr. W.E. Upjohn,
founder of The Upjohn Company, to seek ways to counteract the loss of
employment income during economic downturns.

The Institute is funded largely by income from the W. E. Upjohn
Unemployment Trust, supplemented by outside grants, contracts, and sales of
publications. Activities of the Institute comprise the following elements: 1) a
research program conducted by a resident staff of professional social
scientists; 2) a competitive grant program, which expands and complements
the internal research program by providing financial support to researchers
outside the Institute; 3) a publications program, which provides the major
vehicle for disseminating the research of staff and grantees, as well as other
selected works in the field; and 4) an Employment Management Services
division, which manages most of the publicly funded employment and
training programs in the local area.

The broad objectives of the Institute's research, grant, and publication
programs are to 1) promote scholarship and experimentation on issues of
public and private employment and unemployment policy, and 2) make
knowledge and scholarship relevant and useful to policymakers in their pursuit
of solutions to employment and unemployment problems.

Current areas of concentration for these programs include causes,
consequences, and measures to alleviate unemployment; social insurance and
income maintenance programs; compensation; workforce quality; work
arrangements; family labor issues; labor-management relations; and regional
economic development and local labor markets.

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