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Commentaries tagged with workforce and human capital

September 1, 2019	Ideas, Not Labor or Capital, Made Our Modern EconomyThe focus of economic growth research in the last 40 years has been almost wholly about human capital and the power of ideas.
August 4, 2019	Indianapolis’ Wise Move on Tax Incentives Is Only a Start The problem facing America’s heartland cities is not really a shortage of good jobs, but a shortage of effectively skilled and educated workers.
July 14, 2019	Economic Research Points the Way for Different Education PolicyThis column is part of my effort to draw out two or three critical lessons from the last two or three decades and tie them to state policies.
April 14, 2019	We Need to Send 10,000 More Hoosier Kids to College Next YearIf only 20 percent of the gains of higher education are due to actual learning or acquired skills, it may still be the best investment our state and local governments can make.
March 24, 2019	A Frank Column on Education, Subsidies and PayWe should be very careful about promoting job training in careers that offer low wages.
March 17, 2019	Beware Panacea for Economic GrowthAs a stand-alone feature of economic growth, only human capital matters.
March 10, 2019	Lessons Learned from an Economics ConferenceI found two elements very intriguing, and worth sharing in this column.
February 24, 2019	Poor Policy Has Weakened Indiana’s EconomyA return “to trend” is not good news for Indiana.
February 3, 2019	Another Brookings Study Marks Indiana “at Risk”Hoosier workforce and education policies have increased our vulnerability to job losses.
January 20, 2019	Indiana’s Labor Markets Aren’t Ready for a RecessionThe long-term effect of a recession is mostly determined by the labor market response of businesses.
December 9, 2018	Factory Productivity Growth Isn’t About Machines, but PeopleEven if our industry is dominated by technology, we often fail to see how this affects production within our firms.
December 2, 2018	GM’s Layoffs Are a Warning to Indiana’s Workforce PoliciesFactory jobs are not coming back and manufacturing employment will be a much smaller share of US jobs in the future.
November 18, 2018	Amazon LessonsThe clearest lesson of Amazon is that people matter to business location decisions, probably more than everything else combined.
September 16, 2018	Some Advice for High School GraduatesMost young workers will have to look to the private sector for training.
June 3, 2018	Workforce Development Problems Are Deeper Than They SeemSince 1990, the United States has not created a single net new job for workers who have not been to college.
May 6, 2018	Indiana at Huge Risk in Trade DisruptionsBetween 1818 and 2018, technology essentially killed every existing job and created every new one.
March 18, 2018	Low Unemployment Is Time to Rethink Our Economic Development PoliciesThe most important single assumption supporting all our economic development efforts is that labor supply is perfectly elastic.
November 12, 2017	Time for More Strategic Thinking on EducationThe skills students need over the long run are those that enable them to master non-routine cognitive tasks.
October 22, 2017	Rustbelt Was Losing People Long Before They Lost Factory JobsIn the 1960s, population decline was already evident in the fated Rustbelt cities.
July 23, 2017	Automation, Trade and Urbanization Require More Resilient People and PlacesOur study implies that regional inequality might be poised for a big increase.
March 26, 2017	A Tale of Two Immigration ImpactsSixty-eight percent of recent economics doctorates in the US were earned by immigrants.
March 12, 2017	We Need Better Planning for Automation-Related Effects on WorkersOur workforce must learn to adapt to automation.
September 11, 2016	Cut the Tax Cut Debate, Spend the Money WiselyLet’s focus on workers, not businesses.
August 21, 2016	The Importers Benefit from TradeUnbalanced trade activity points to an unbalance in efficiency.
August 7, 2016	Labor Force Participation and ConspiraciesThe labor force does not include those who are not actively searching for or working in a job.
May 1, 2016	The Future of Ivy TechA nearby state sets an excellent example of an efficient community college model.

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