Recent publications include

• A Future of Good Jobs? America's Challenge in the Global Economy (with Susan N. Houseman, eds.), Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2008.

• "Economic Development Policy in Michigan" (with Peter Eisinger and George Erickcek) in Michigan at the Millennium, (Charles L. Ballard, Paul N. Courant, Douglas C. Drake, Ronald C. Fisher, and Elisabeth R. Gerber, eds.), East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2003.
  Appendices A and B

• Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help?, from the Russell Sage Foundation and the Upjohn Institute, 2001.

• "Examining the Effects of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads," (with Randall W. Eberts) in Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform, (Sheldon H. Danziger, ed.), Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 1999.

• "Displacement and Wage Effects of Welfare Reform," in Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform, (David Card and Rebecca Blank, eds.), New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.

• Book review of Generating Jobs: How to Increase Demand for Less-Skilled Workers, (Richard Freeman and Peter Gottschalk, eds.), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (January 2000).

• "Growing State Economies: How Taxes and Public Services Affect Private Sector Performance," in The End of Welfare: Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation, (Max Sawicky, ed.), Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

• "The Market Failure Approach to Regional Economic Development Policy," in Approaches to Economic Development: Readings from Economic Development Quarterly, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. (Originally printed in the November 1990 issue of EDQ.)

• Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies?, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 1991.

Dr. Bartik received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982 and was Assistant Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University prior to joining the Institute in 1989.