Industry Publications
A list of EPPR publications pertaining to industry.
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Feb 2025
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May 2024Identifying opportunities to leverage regional industry and better engage underutilized and underrepresented workers
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Jun 2022More Black and Latinx homebuyers in Massachusetts received home purchase mortgages in 2020 than at any time in the last thirty years but the percentage of loans for those same borrowers remain well below their respective share of the population.
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Nov 2020The construction also created or supported an average of 2,505 jobs per year.
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May 2018Among other findings, the study concludes that no significant decline in lottery revenue is attributable to Plainridge Park Casino.
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Oct 2017The purpose of the current Operating Report is to estimate the full economic impact of the first year of operations of the Plainridge Park Casino (PPC) on the Massachusetts economy.
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Jun 2017Low productivity growth, rising healthcare costs, and demographics put pressure on Massachusetts households and state tax receipts
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Jun 2017Produced for the New England Foundation for the Arts By the Economic and Public Policy Research Group of the UMass Donahue Institute
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May 2017
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Mar 2017Concerns about long range growth center around available labor supply and uncertainty in Federal immigration policy
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May 2014This report performs an objective analysis to quantify the economic contributions of the University of Massachusetts system and its campuses on the Commonwealth's economy.
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Dec 2013The Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance (ANF), MassDevelopment, and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center at the request of the Sequestration Task Force contracted the UMass Donahue Institute (UMDI) to complete a first-in-the-nation study of the near-term economic effects that sequestration cuts occurring in the federal fiscal years 2013 and 2014 have had on the Massachusetts economy.
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Oct 2013The Pittsfield Economic Revitalization Corporation (PERC) commissioned the UMass Donahue Institute to study the advanced manufacturing industry in the Berkshires, examining the history, workforce and existing businesses in the Berkshire region of Massachusetts to determine prospects for growth.
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Jun 2013MassDevelopment commissioned the UMass Donahue Institute to update a report examining the employment and economic impacts of the commercial (non-military) businesses located in Devens, Massachusetts.
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Aug 2012This economic contribution analysis found that Massachusetts’ six military bases support more than 46,000 jobs and contribute more than $14.2 billion to the Commonwealth’s economy annually.
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Jun 2012This preliminary report presents the findings of a study examining the economic impact that the defense industry has on the six states of the New England.
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Dec 2010This report provides a look at the scale and specific nature of the defense industry in Massachusetts.
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Sep 2008Growing Talent reports the research, findings and recommendations of the Life Sciences Talent Initiative, a comprehensive one-year study of talent needs in the Massachusetts life sciences industry and the capacity of the state’s higher education institutions and workforce training organizations to respond.
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Apr 2008The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University commissioned a study to analyze the characteristics and economic impact of the veterinary medical industry in the six-state New England region.
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Nov 2007The defense sector, defined in this study as commercial activity generated by U.S. defense and homeland security contracts, military personnel payroll, and retiree benefits paid to state residents, is a key driver of the Massachusetts economy.
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May 2007Boston, MA - The burden on municipal budgets of mixed-income homeownership developments in Massachusetts may not be as great as is often assumed, according to a new study prepared by the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute for Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA).
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Apr 2007The UMass Donahue Institute recently released the study, “Help Wanted 2: Recruiting and Retaining the Next Generation of Human Services Workers in Massachusetts,” commissioned by the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, Inc.
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Apr 2007The Economic and Public Policy Research Unit recently prepared a major industry study for the Massachusetts High Technology Council.
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Apr 2006The UMass Donahue Institute has released the study, “Help Wanted: The Future of the Human Services Workforce in Massachusetts” commissioned by The Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, Inc.
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Mar 2006In November 2005, the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute conducted its second annual housing poll in collaboration with the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA).
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May 2005The $4.8 billion marine science industry of New England is a formidable economic engine that has the potential to prosper through investments in homeland security, oceanographic and atmospheric warning systems, allied navies, and environmental monitoring, but the industry is in danger of running aground in the global competition for investment unless it can find more highly skilled workers and research support, according to a study released today by the UMass Donahue Institute.
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May 2001The medical device industry in Massachusetts is both an ongoing vital contributor and a stabilizing factor to the state's economy during the recent recession.
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Nov 2000This paper examines the food and lumber processing industries in Massachusetts over the last four decades as well as a general assessment of the total food marketing system in Massachusetts in 1997, the most recent year for which data was available.
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Oct 2000A report detailing the decline of the environmental industry in the 1990s.
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Sep 2000This report summarizes employment and earnings, and identifies important trends within various sectors of the Massachusetts Marine Economy, which includes commercial seafood industries, marine transportation, tourism and recreation, marine technology and education and coastal construction and real estate.
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Jun 1999This report provides a detailed analysis of the pharmaceutical industry in Massachusetts.
