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February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…market orthodoxy. The downsides, he says, are both real and grave. He acknowledges that free-market advocates have often oversold their case, making predictions—about growth, peace, and China—that have either not…
February 20, 2024
Planning a Career in the Age of AI
…top of the “critical skills” list while proficiency in STEM and basic computer and software skills have dropped to the bottom. That’s an important market signal. We should pay attention…
February 16, 2024
The Overlooked Benefits of Work-from-Home Opportunities
…mothers relative to other women, with significant narrowing of employment gaps in traditionally less family-friendly fields such as finance and marketing. Notably, an analogous effect was not found for men….
February 5, 2024
The Biden Administration’s War on Flexibility at Work
One of the signal errors of Biden administration policy has been its tendency to take regulatory actions that reduce the flexibility of the economy generally and the labor market in…
January 31, 2024
Perspective: The ‘social workplace’ and why it matters to Zoomers
…human. Looked at this way, markets are human social behavior “at-scale,” driven by the innate human tendency to trade for mutual development and benefit. Data from our most recent report on “The…
January 22, 2024
Can Workforce Development Programs Improve Labor Force Participation?
…appears to be a chronically tight labor market. More importantly, the simulation found expanded workforce development programming would increase labor force participation by three percentage points. That change would be…
January 12, 2024
Get Ready for AI-Driven Skill Democratization
…and, to a lesser extent, trade dramatically reduced the number of middle-skill jobs leading to what economists called a “polarized” labor market: many high-skilled and low-skilled jobs but relatively few that…
December 15, 2023
What Athletes Take off the Field
…conclude that the non-academic human capital developed through athletics––skills like teamwork, resilience, and leadership– has significant labor market value. The implications of these findings extend far beyond Ivy League tennis…
December 14, 2023
Perspective: What Flexibility Means for Younger Workers — and Their Employers
…skills. Flexibility is the workforce watchword. But flexibility in the labor market also has implications for employers. A recent American Enterprise Institute survey of workers found flexibility in working conditions to be a top concern for just about…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…market orthodoxy. The downsides, he says, are both real and grave. He acknowledges that free-market advocates have often oversold their case, making predictions—about growth, peace, and China—that have either not been fully realized…