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December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
…and applied research at the intersection of education and labor markets for leaders in business, education, and policy. The Project’s research aims to help shape a postsecondary system of the…
November 13, 2023
The Jobless AI Future Is Still a Long Way Off
…them in the labor market, driving up their wages and incomes. Higher incomes will increase overall demand for goods and services in the economy, which in turn will increase the…
November 3, 2023
The Biden AI Executive Order: Dark Brandon or Uncle Joe?
…including effects on job skills and evaluation of applicants and workers.” Here, Uncle Joe is out over his skis. Our labor market information (LMI) system, which would form the basis…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…30 years: despair and polarization. Beginning in the late 1980s, I began to notice how conservatives, as they lost cultural market share, increasingly despaired of the country (“Come home, America,” as a National…
October 18, 2023
Vocation: A Cure for Burnout
…thinkers who shed important light on issues relating to work and well-being are Adam Smith and Karl Marx. Though these two giants of economics came to the issue from diametrically opposed views on market…
September 6, 2023
Working from Home Has Increased More Modestly Than Many Believe
…about how many people are working from home today compared with before COVID. If they believe working from home has risen markedly, they may assume it is more permanent than…
August 31, 2023
The Future of Work: Augmented, not Automated
…balance between technical and noncognitive skills in the marketplace. A new report from the IBM Institute for Business Value, surveying over 24,000 executives and employees around the world, reaffirms the importance of noncognitive skills and…
August 15, 2023
The Generative AI Revolution Is Underway
…into their business. Marketing, sales, product development, and customer service operations are the top functions using generative AI. Common use cases include drafting text, personalized marketing, identifying trends in customer…
August 9, 2023
The AI Apocalypse Can Wait
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has ignited fears about its potential to disrupt the labor market. There has been no shortage of predictions of huge impacts AI will have on the…
July 31, 2023
The Utah Model: Workforce Programs and Services Integration Tool Kit
…in the labor market. Utah’s integrated model for workforce and social assistance—the Utah Department of Workforce Services—provides a “playbook” for building state-of-the-art service delivery that maximizes use of taxpayer dollars…