The Brookings Institution has published a series of research reports that WIBs and One Stop Career Centers should read:
- What Is Happening to America's Less Skilled Workers: The Importance of Education and Training in Todays Economy--explores the employment and earnings trends facing America’s less-educated workers over the last few decades, and highlights training and workforce development opportunities that could be part of the policy solution.
- Building America's Job Skills with Effective Workforce Programs--recommends strategies for working with disadvantaged and dislocated workers, who tend to need to access different types of programs.
- Grading Higher Education: GIving Consumers the Information They Need--looks at what information job seekers need to make better decisions about education and training programs.
- Raising Job Quality and Skills for American Workers: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Programs in the States--This paper proposes a new set of competitive grants from the federal government to states that would fund training partnerships between employers in key industries, education providers, workforce agencies, and intermediaries at the state level, plus a range of other supports and services. The grants would especially reward the expansion of programs that appear successful when evaluated with randomized controlled trial (RCT) techniques.
- Unemployment and Earnings Losses: A Look at Long-term Impacts of the Great Recession on American Workers--explores the experiences of workers who lost their jobs during the height of the Great Recession, looking at the impacts of this economic shock on future earnings and reemployment prospects
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