Diagnosing Wyoming's Workforce Challenges
Wyoming is facing two distinct labor market challenges: in the short-term, low workforce availability is a constraint while in the long-term job and wage growth have stagnated.
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Servicing Development: Productive Upgrading of Labor-Absorbing Services in Developing Economies
Manufacturing generates very little employment in the developing world. Urban jobs are predominantly informal, unproductive, and in services.
Teaching Competition and Cooperation in Civic Education
Civic education in the nation's public schools has suffered neglect in recent years. In the 1960s, by no means a golden age, students usually took three civics courses in high school.
How Do You Find a Good Manager?
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance.
Beyond the Sound and Fury: The Landscape of Curricular Contestation in Texas
Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies curricula.
Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT: A practical guide to creating better learning experiences for your students in less time
Since ChatGPT stormed the world in November 2022, speculation about AI in education has often been overwhelming, vague, or impractical.
How Far Can Inclusion Go? The Long-term Impacts of Preferential College Admissions
Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of disadvantaged groups.
Creating student leaders through civics
Building on the literature of student leadership development, Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen share an approach to civic education: Deeper Civic Learning.
Servicing Development: Productive Upgrading of Labor-Absorbing Services in Developing Countries
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential priority, for reasons of both growth and equity.
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality
Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker health and well-being, but there has been less research examining the intergenerational consequences of work sc
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