Research and Commentary

Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices

Spring 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Just How Progressive Is the U.S. Tax Code?

April 13, 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

The Truth about Taxes: Just about Everyone Pays Them

April 6, 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

Understanding the “Jobs Gap” and What it Says About America’s Evolving Workforce

March 9, 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

The Marriage Gap: The Impact of Economic and Technological Change on Marriage Rates

February 3, 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

The American Workforce and Growth through Innovation

January 17, 2012, Alan Berube, Gary Burtless, William A. Galston, Elisabeth Jacobs and Adam Looney

The Immediate Jobs Crisis and Our Long-Run Labor Market Problem

January 13, 2012, Gary Burtless and Adam Looney

Shrinking Job Opportunities: The Challenge of Putting Americans Back to Work

January 6, 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

@ Brookings Podcast: Job Training for American Workers Must Change

December 16, 2011, Michael Greenstone

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What Is Happening to America’s Less-Skilled Workers? The Importance of Education and Training in Today’s Economy

December 2, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Raising Job Quality and Skills for American Workers: Creating More-Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in the States

November 2011, Harry J. Holzer

Building America’s Job Skills with Effective Workforce Programs: A Training Strategy to Raise Wages and Increase Work Opportunities

November 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Policies to Reduce High-Tenured Displaced Workers’ Earnings Losses Through Retraining

November 2011, Louis S. Jacobson , Robert J. LaLonde and Daniel G. Sullivan

Improving Regulatory Performance

November 16, 2011, Michael Greenstone

Long-Stagnant Teacher Compensation Needs to be Upgraded

November 14, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Unemployment and Earnings Losses: A Look at Long-Term Impacts of the Great Recession on American Workers

November 4, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

What Is Happening to America’s Children? A Look at the Widening Opportunity Gap for Today’s Youth

October 7, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Improving Student Outcomes: Restoring America’s Education Potential

September 2011, Michael Greenstone, Adam Looney and Paige Shevlin

Are We Short-Changing our Future? The Economic Imperative of Attracting Great Teachers

September 22, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Taking the Job Gap to the State Level: A Closer Look at the August Employment Numbers

September 2, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

College Is Expensive, But Still a Smart Choice

August 15, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Returning to the Topic of Jobs

August 12, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

A Dozen Economic Facts About Innovation

August 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Trends: Reduced Earnings for Men in America

Third Quarter 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

@ Brookings Podcast: Finding the Right Balance in Regulation

July 1, 2011, Michael Greenstone

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