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New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case

About the Compendium New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use…

September 22, 2025 | By Brent Orrell | Will Rinehart | Harry J. Holzer | Julia Lane | Erik Brynjolfsson | Jason Owen-Smith | Lee Branstetter | Eduard Hovy | Prasanna "Sonny" Tambe | Diane Coyle | Suzette Kent | Adam Leonard | Layla O'Kane | Lesley Hirsch | Karin Kimbrough | Mar Carpanelli | Vipin Arora | David Wasshausen | Nancy Potok

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The Social Workplace: A Compendium

Key Points Executive Summary In an era marked by a decline in social capital across…

June 11, 2024 | By Brent Orrell

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The Social Workplace: Social Capital, Human Dignity, and Work in America, Volume III 

Executive Summary In this report, we analyze 41 interviews of participants in an earlier quantitative…

April 3, 2024 | By Brent Orrell | Hunter Dixon

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The Age of Uncertainty—and Opportunity: Work in the Age of AI

Abstract The question of how artificial intelligence will affect jobs, skills, and the future of work is…

February 29, 2024 | By Brent Orrell | David Veldran

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The Social Workplace: Social Capital, Human Dignity, and Work in America, Volume II

October 11, 2023 | By Brent Orrell | Daniel A. Cox | Kyle Gray | Jessie Wall

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Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training

August 3, 2023 | By Brent Orrell et al

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Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training

Read the PDF. Introduction The Workforce Futures Initiative is a research collaboration among the American…

August 3, 2023 | By Brent Orrell et al

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Government-Supported Job Training in the US: Paths Toward Reforming the Workforce

July 21, 2023 | By Brent Orrell | Peter Mueser | Kenneth Troske

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Government-Supported Job Training in the US: Paths Toward Reforming The Workforce

July 21, 2023 | By Brent Orrell | Peter Mueser | Kenneth Troske

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Brave New Technology

In the early 1990s, I had the very good fortune to work on Capitol Hill…

February 14, 2023 | By Brent Orrell

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Rethinking Reentry

Policymakers and researchers have been searching for a solution to persistently high rates of recidivism for decades. While…

January 17, 2020 | By Brent Orrell | Paul Ryan