PUBLICATIONS Search for: All CategoriesArticles & Op-EdsBlog: By the NumbersBooksFiguresMember StatementsNewsPapersPolicy BriefsAll TopicsClimate, Energy, and InfrastructureIncome Inequality and Labor MarketSocial Policy and EducationTax and BudgetTechnology and InnovationTrade, Immigration, and Globalization Recent Publications : Social Policy and Education November 21 2019 | Books Maintaining the Strength of American Capitalism The essays contained in this volume seek to clarify the lines of debate on some of the greatest economic policy challenges of our time and present evidence- based analysis on how to address them. It examines the hypothesis that growing... Aspen Economic Strategy Group November 21 2019 | Papers Introduction: Maintaining the Strength of American Capitalism A national debate about the strength and fairness of American capitalism is taking place against a backdrop of vast levels of income and wealth inequality, growing pessimism about the state of economic opportunity and mobility, increased market concentration in many... Amy Ganz, Melissa S. Kearney February 04 2019 | Books Expanding Economic Opportunity for More Americans Over the course of the past year, the Aspen Economic Strategy Group collected policy ideas to address the barriers to broad-based economic opportunity and identified concrete proposals with bipartisan appeal. These proposals are presented here. Aspen Economic Strategy Group February 04 2019 | Papers What Works in Career and Technical Education (CTE)? A Review of Evidence and Suggested Policy Directions Career and technical education (CTE) is widely viewed as an important alternative to traditional four-year colleges, a means of increasing the earnings of U.S.workers, and an effective response to the changing skill requirements of U.S. employers. While abundant evidence confirms... Ann Huff Stevens February 04 2019 | Papers The Challenges of Leveraging Online Education for Economically Vulnerable Mid-Career Americans This chapter lays out some of the central questions policymakers should ask when considering plans to leverage online education for economically vulnerable mid-career Americans, as well as the state of the evidence surrounding those questions. In short, existing research provides... Joshua Goodman February 04 2019 | Papers A Policy Agenda to Develop Human Capital for the Modern Economy This proposal recognizes the simultaneous need for more college educated workers and also for a higher level of labor market skill among non-college educated individuals. The authors propose to invest in the upskilling of the American workplace by better leveraging... Amy Ganz, Melissa S. Kearney, Austan Goolsbee, Glenn Hubbard February 04 2019 | Papers Introduction: The Need to Expand Economic Opportunity The pursuit of economic opportunity for all Americans is as important to the health of the country’s economy as it is to the strength of its democracy. The promise that hard work and determination will yield economic success is a... Melissa S. Kearney, Amy Ganz February 04 2019 | Papers Restoring Economic Opportunity for “The People Left Behind”: Employment Strategies for Rural America In order to stimulate employment in rural areas, author James P. Ziliak proposes a two-fold strategy of bringing “people to jobs” and “jobs to people,” an approach that combines people-based and place-based policies. The people-based policies include relocation assistance payments... James Ziliak February 04 2019 | Papers Scaling Apprenticeship to Increase Human Capital In this chapter, author Robert Lerman argues that a large-scale apprenticeship program could address these challenges, while also yielding substantial additional gains for employers and the U.S. economy. He first reviews the evidence on apprenticeship, which suggests that increasing the... Robert I. Lerman February 04 2019 | Papers Economic Strategy for Higher Wages and Expanded Labor Participation In this chapter, authors Jason Furman and Phillip Swagel propose two alternative policy options for promoting increased earnings and employment of low-income households: expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) among childless workers, and implementing a wage subsidy for low-income... Jason Furman, Phillip Swagel « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next »