Sentences with phrase «labor economists»

Fortunately, it's a problem that many labor economists have faced before, and the strategy used in this report mirrors techniques that have been used frequently in several peer - reviewed studies of immigration's impact on the labor market.

For years, labor economists said routine work like a factory job could be reduced to a set of rules that could be computerized.

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CUE hosted labor economists, urban planners, activists, and financial consultants to analyze and respond to current conditions of work in the arts.

A 2004 study by labor economists Frank Levy and Richard Murnane, for example, found that technology is transforming the workplace by reducing the need for routine skills and placing a premium on problem - solving and communication skills.

While labor economists predict that 60 % of all jobs by 2025 will require a postsecondary credential, there is a common misconception that a bachelor's degree is the only pathway to career success.

Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed.

Scott Imberman has presented at numerous academic conferences including annual meetings for the American Economic Association, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Society of Labor Economists, and the Association for Education Finance and Policy.

The authors, all labor economists, are more interested in the demonstrated effects of the changes they sketch than in a fuller examination and characterization of the reforms.

One such politician seeking reelection this year is Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Corbett who has been heavily touting what several leading Pennsylvanian labor economists believe are questionable job creation numbers in the state's Marcellus Shale formation.

Having additional data that tracks workers 10 or 15 years after they earn an undergraduate degree would help labor economists understand workers» decisions, since people now tend to hold many different jobs over the course of evolving careers, Ginther said.

But many less publicized Americans, including prominent labor economists, disagree.

Those recommendations included the creation of a peer review panel of labor economists to review the study's results and allowing IDA board members to vote on whether to adopt the study's recommendations.

For example, labor economists analyze the effects of labor policies on employment.

«This is a classic example of union avoidance,» says Mark Price, a labor economist for the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Yellen is a labor economist by background, and it shows.

In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Susan Lund, a labor economist at global consulting firm McKinsey, noted that with the advent of AI and workplace automation, not everyone needs to have a college degree to thrive.

Jared Bernstein, a labor economist much loved by liberals, was asked to serve as the top economist to Vice President Biden.

In 2016 he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association; the award citation describes Richard as «an enormously innovative labor economist who has made pioneering contributions to virtually every aspect of the field.»

«We are in a labor market where more and more emphasis is placed on cognitive skills and education - based skills, the changing economy,» explains Harry Holzer, a labor economist who is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University.

Paula Stephan, a labor economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the next generation committee, has described these arrangements and their effects in exacting detail in her book, How Economics Shapes Science, and a number of the previous reports and studies concur with her observations.

But there are also very good reasons that the employee designation should not be neglected, as fellow speaker and labor economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University in Atlanta noted.

Labor economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University in Atlanta welcomed the study, calling it «path breaking» for looking at productivity at the laboratory level.

«Their numbers are right, as far as I can tell,» says Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman, who follows the debate.

And that's just a start, says Robert Drago, a labor economist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, who studies bias a gainst caregiving in the workplace: «From providing affordable housing near campus to subsidizing daycare, there's a lot that institutions should be doing if they mean business.»

But P. Kay Lund, director of the NIH Division of Biomedical Research Workforce in the Office of Extramural Research, and Misty Heggeness, a labor economist in the same division, note in a joint statement to Science Careers that the detected impact of newly received NIH funding on mobility is «minimal» and less than that of children's ages and peer environment quality.

«People should have a reasonable expectation of being able to practice their science if they're encouraged to become scientists,» says labor economist Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation «It shouldn't be a guarantee, but they ought to have a reasonable prospect.»

«One has to be skeptical of [senior] scientists who say we need to educate [or import] more scientists, because they have a great self - interest,» says labor economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

For those doing the hiring, «the benefit of high - skill immigration» is that it «allows employers to pick» the workers they want from a large pool, explained Jennifer Hunt, a labor economist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

«It's an unstable system,» says Paula Stephan, a labor economist at Georgia State University.

When the first of the baby boomers entered the job market in the 1970s, many of them holding freshly minted college diplomas, the economic value of a bachelor's degree plummeted, leading Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman to fret over the plight of the «overeducated American.»

Jesse Rothstein, a member of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth's Research Advisory Board, is a public and labor economist.

Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the University of Washington, and Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, were two of the expert witnesses who spoke against teacher tenure in Vegara v. California.

«There is this popular view that if you can automate one piece of the work, the rest of the job is toast,» said Frank Levy, a labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«The fact of the matter is, we have much higher rates of employment today than we did in 1954, but our level of taxation is considerably higher,» said Gary Burtless, a labor economist at the Brookings Institution.

Not exact matches

Bureau of Labor Statistics economist Megan Dunn explained the scheduling rules to Business Insider last year when a similar phenomenon occurred (emphasis ours):

«Migrant workers are a very elastic part of the labor pool that aren't captured anywhere (in official statistics),» said Julia Wang, an economist with HSBC in Hong Kong.

Business surveys, which economists say may be the best monthly measure of the broader labor market, have shown renewed job shedding in both manufacturing and services.

Opinions and assertions about the condition of the US labor force are also offered by financial market participants, advisors, economists, and academics.

The consensus estimate is 182,000 new jobs, reflecting the fact that economists expect job growth to slow somewhat as the unemployment rate and labor market slack continues to shrink.

As the manufacturing - and - farming economy has given way to an information - and - service economy, the number of Americans making their livings from what economists call contingent labor has soared.

While this figure might not have market watchers jumping up for joy, «it is a positive sign that more people flowed into the labor force and shows the labor market is on the right track,» says Kurt Rankin, an economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

In his study, «The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market,» Berkeley economist David Card concluded that despite a 7 % increase in the Miami labor market for unskilled workers, the mass migration had virtually no impact on local wages and unemployLabor Market,» Berkeley economist David Card concluded that despite a 7 % increase in the Miami labor market for unskilled workers, the mass migration had virtually no impact on local wages and unemploylabor market for unskilled workers, the mass migration had virtually no impact on local wages and unemployment.

«Faster economic growth over most of the past year has tightened labor and product markets and helped to boost prices at a faster pace,» David Berson, chief economist at Nationwide, said in a note.

In 2006, five Federal Reserve economists published a paper on labor force participation, which was falling even back then.

«Firms with low labor costs should be most insulated from accelerating wages, a trend that our economists expect will persist in 2018.»

«If you see a few more months of improvement of this magnitude, it is a clear sign that the labor market is tightening and is poised to break out next year,» said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

The brutally disappointing employment report released by the Labor Department Friday showed that just 74,000 new jobs were created in December, far below the 196,000 predicted by economists.

Citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Glassdoor chief economist Dr. Andrew Chamberlain says in an email that wages for customer service jobs generally «are above the national average in tech - related industries.»