Research and Commentary
Julia B. Isaacs, November 2007
Julia Isaacs explores the differences between white and black families with regard to economic success and income mobility. Read More
Economic Mobility, Children & Families
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs, November 2007, Economic Mobility Project
Julia B. Isaacs takes a comprehensive view of economic mobility, asking questions about both absolute and relative mobility.
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs, November 2007, Economic Mobility Project
Julia Isaacs reviews overall income trends based on Census Bureau data and provides an intergenerational analysis based on a longitudinal data set that allows a direct match of the family income of parents in the late 1960s to their children’s family income in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Peter Blair Henry and Diego Sasson, March 2008, The Brookings Institution
In new research, Peter Blair Henry shows the benefits of stock market opening for developing countries. Read More
VIDEO
Isabel V. Sawhill, Ian Solomon, Doug Holtz-Eakin, Gene Sperling, Julia B. Isaacs and Ron Haskins, March 20, 2008
On March 20, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings and the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project a discussion to examine the findings of "Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America," a new volume by Brookings experts Julia Isaacs, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal, Issue #8, Spring 2008
Despite profound economic changes over recent years, America’s job-transition, or worker adjustment, program remains one of the weakest among advanced economies. Lael Brainard proposes fundamental changes in the nation’s programs in order to provide enhanced training and financial support to help American workers compete. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Washington, DC
A comprehensive look at the trends and issues that drive economic opportunity in America was released last month in a new volume by Brookings experts, "Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America." On March 20, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings and the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project will hold a forum to discuss the findings on gender, race, immigration, and families in addition to new findings on education, international comparisons, trends, and wealth. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
John C. Austin and Bruce Katz, March 11, 2008, The Detroit Free Press
The federal government should be an active partner in Southeast Michigan's recovery towards economic transformation. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Washington, DC
How can the next president reduce poverty and increase economic opportunity? This question was the subject of a forum on March 5 sponsored by the Center on Children and Families at Brookings, the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford, and the Spotlight on Poverty Campaign. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Washington, DC
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings hosted the inaugural meeting of its Global Young Professionals Program on February 27, featuring Matt Flannery, CEO and co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending Web site. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube and Bruce Katz, February 24, 2008, Cleveland Plain Dealer
On the cusp of Ohio's crucial primary, Bruce Katz and Alan Berube posit some key questions on the candidates’ long-term plans for the Ohio economy, which has lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000 and contains four of the nation’s top 20 metropolitan areas in home foreclosure rates. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and Don Williams, February 24, 2008, The Dallas Morning News
Bruce Katz and Don Williams argue that the federal government needs to refresh its perspective on the way it supports metropolitan areas across America, such as the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, by harnessing new ideas on innovation, infrastructure, human capital and education that will help fuel prosperity. Read More
VIDEO
Isabel V. Sawhill, February 20, 2008
Economic inequality across American households has been growing for a number of years. Isabel Sawhill, co-director of the Center on Children and Families and co-author of Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America examines how upwardly mobile we really are.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ron Haskins, Julia B. Isaacs and Isabel V. Sawhill, February 2008, Economic Mobility Project
Is America still the land of opportunity and mobility? How much opportunity to get ahead actually exists in America? Brookings scholars Julia Isaacs, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins provide new evidence and summarize research on both the extent of intergenerational mobility in the United States and the factors that influence it. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford G. Gaddy, February 2008, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The virtual economy was the system of informal rent-distribution that arose in post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s as nonviable Soviet-era manufacturing industries sought to protect themselves from the discipline of the market. The article discusses the system’s historical roots, describes some of its characteristic phenomena, and outlines a model for behavior of enterprises. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford G. Gaddy, February 07, 2008, Mainstream Media Project's "A World of Possibilities"
Fueled by rising revenues from its vast oil reserves, Russia is experiencing a sudden comeback from its economic and political collapse just sixteen years ago. This program will consider what Russia’s re-emergence as a global force could mean for the already diminishing constraints of arms control and for a renewed power struggle between Russia and the U.S. in an increasingly multi-polar world. Brookings Scholar Clifford Gaddy speaks about Russia, past and present. Read More