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Event recap—AI + work: Building pro-worker AI
On February 25, The Hamilton Project hosted a virtual event with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Simon Johnson, and Natasha Sarin to discuss pro-worker AI.
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Labor market exits and entrances are elevated: Who is coming back?
In this analysis, Lauren Bauer and Wendy Edelberg identify when and which people are returning to labor market.
Has COVID disrupted the postsecondary pipeline?
This analysis explores how young adults' decisions to enroll in school or work during the pandemic have played out.
Women, work, and families: Recovering from the pandemic-induced recession
Betsey Stevenson reviews what has happened to women’s employment and labor force participation in the recovery from the pandemic.
Time waited for no mom in 2020
In 2020, mothers of younger children were primary and primarily caregivers.
Removing policy obstacles to competitive labor markets
Ryan Nunn outlines reforms to occupational licensing and non-compete contracts that would boost labor market competition and benefit workers.
Examining the uneven and hard-to-predict labor market recovery
Lauren Bauer, Arindrajit Dube, Wendy Edelberg, and Aaron Sojourner explore the factors leading to slower-than-expected employment gains during the post-COVID e…
Mothers are being left behind in the economic recovery from COVID-19
Lauren Bauer provides new evidence that mothers—particularly mothers of children under five and unmarried mothers—are being left behind in the economic recover…
A plan to reform the unemployment insurance system in the United States
Arindrajit Dube offers a plan to reform and modernize the unemployment insurance (UI) system to reflect and align with the challenges of the current labor mark…
