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Less educated workers often experience prolonged periods of unemployment and stagnating wages because they lack the skills necessary to compete in a global economy. In a new Hamilton Project paper, Harry J. Holzer proposes a set of competitive grants to fund education, training, and career counseling initiatives that feature private sector connections based on the experience of existing successful workforce development programs.
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Amid the Great Recession and rapid technological changes, both workers with less education and workers who have been displaced from long-tenured jobs face challenges because they lack the particular skills that employers demand for good-paying jobs. In a new Hamilton Project strategy paper, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney address the importance of developing workers’ skills through training and workforce development programs, and examine newly available evidence on policies that boost job opportunities and wages.
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After being displaced from long-tenured jobs, workers often experience persistent, significant earnings losses. New research suggests that retraining in certain “high-return” fields can substantially reduce these losses. In a new Hamilton Project paper, Louis S. Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde and Daniel G. Sullivan propose the establishment of a Displaced Worker Training (DWT) Program to distribute grants to displaced workers so they can obtain longer-term training to substantially increase their earnings. The DWT Program would also leverage the nation’s One-Stop Career Centers to assess and counsel grantees.
In this paper, the Center for American Progress (CAP) and The Hamilton Project (THP) outline three proposals to help address the long-run imperative of creating jobs and improving wages in the United States.
This policy memo explores some of the questions frequently raised around immigration in the United States and provides facts drawn from publicly available data sets and the academic literature.
This paper analyzes the U.S. labor market over the past three decades and finds employment polarization on the rise as job opportunities decline in middle-skill occupations, resulting in a sharp increase in wage inequality.
This paper lays out the arguments for using cap-and-trade to address climate change and proposes a system that includes an upstream cap on CO2, a gradual downward trajectory of emissions ceilings over time, and mechanisms to reduce cost uncertainty.
This paper presents a strategy for addressing climate change and promoting energy security that includes pricing carbon and oil, investing in basic research on energy technologies, and engaging with other major emitting nations.
This briefing paper articulates a philosophy of embracing international competition while investing in workers and market-friendly insurance. The underlying goal is to boost overall productivity while also sharing more broadly both the benefits and costs of trade.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States led the world in the share of the population that completed a college degree; by 2008 that lead had essentially vanished.
America is issuing a declining number of visas for high-skill workers.
The United States experienced two waves of immigration over the last century. The first peaked in 1910, while the second stemmed from immigration reform in 1965 and continues today.
Immigrants and the U.S.-born have similar fiscal footprints, paying more in taxes than they consume in services over their lifetime.
Immigration may have a modest positive effect on the average wage of U.S.-born workers.
Educational attainment of foreign-born workers in the American workforce varies widely.
Over the past 30 years, employment has increased in low-skill and high-skill occupations while at the same time stagnating or decreasing in middle-skill occupations.
Advisory Council member Alan S. Blinder testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on his views on the economy and budget.
The Hamilton Project hosted a forum focused on the economics of immigration. A panel of economic experts helped distinguish economic reality from myth in the current debate, with particular regard to the impact of immigration on the wages of middle-class and lower-income workers; the living standards of Americans; and the demand for, and availability of, visas for highly skilled workers.
Together with the Commission on Growth & Development, The Hamilton Project hosted a policy roundtable on the role of economic growth in reducing poverty in developing nations. A panel of experts discussed policies to help developing nations move forward in this era of global uncertainty.
A two-part forum and release of a new set of policy proposals that address the challenges of reforming the U.S. tax system.
The Project co-sponsored an event with The New Republic featuring four panel discussions focused on income instability among American families, economic security and growth, and new proposals for progress.
The Hamilton Project convened a forum surrounding the release of a new set of policy papers examining trade and government reform policy with a discussion of the challenges presented by a global economy.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States led the world in the share of the population that completed a college degree; by 2008 that lead had essentially vanished.
The Hamilton Project hosted a forum focused on the economics of immigration. A panel of economic experts helped distinguish economic reality from myth in the current debate — with particular regard to the impact of immigration on the wages of middle-class and lower-income workers, the living standards of Americans, and the demand for, and availability of, visas for highly skilled workers.
America is issuing a declining number of visas for high-skill workers.
The United States experienced two waves of immigration over the last century. The first peaked in 1910, while the second stemmed from immigration reform in 1965 and continues today.
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Melody Barnes' remarks at the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy event with introduction by Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Roger Altman.
Panel 2 audio from the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy event.
Immigrants and the U.S.-born have similar fiscal footprints, paying more in taxes than they consume in services over their lifetime.
Panel 1 audio from the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy event.
Immigration may have a modest positive effect on the average wage of U.S.-born workers.
Educational attainment of foreign-born workers in the American workforce varies widely.
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