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Improving Opportunity Through Minimum Zoning Mandates
Dramatic differences in income, productivity, and housing costs within the United States make geographic mobility important for spreading prosperity. State-level Minimum Zoning Mandates (MZMs) allowing landowners to build at a state-guaranteed minimum density, even in municipalities resistant to development, would be an effective means of encouraging denser housing development.
BY Joshua D. Gottlieb
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
Economic Strategy for Higher Wages and Expanded Labor Participation
We propose two alternative policy options for promoting increased earnings and employment of low-income households: expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) among childless workers, and implementing a wage subsidy for low-income workers that would be administered through employers.
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
A Policy Agenda to Develop Human Capital for the Modern Economy
This proposal recognizes the simultaneous need for more college educated workers and a higher level of labor market skill among non-college educated individuals. We propose to invest in the upskilling of the American workplace by better leveraging the potential of the community college sector.
BY Austan Goolsbee,
& 2 more
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
What Works in Career and Technical Education?
Career and technical education (CTE) is widely viewed as an important alternative to traditional four-year colleges, a means of increasing the earnings of U.S. workers, and an effective response to the changing skill requirements of U.S. employers.
BY Ann Huff Stevens
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
Productivity Growth for More Americans
The U.S. economy in recent years has been characterized by slow average productivity growth and increasing productivity dispersion within industries. These trends have coincided with analogous changes in wages—slow average wage growth and greater wage inequality between workers.
BY Chad Syverson
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
Restoring Economic Opportunity for “The People Left Behind”
Based on several leading economic indicators, most notably rates of employment in the labor force among less skilled men, residents of rural America are much further behind their urban counterparts today than they were fifty years ago.
BY James P. Ziliak
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
A Policymaker’s Guide to Labor Force Participation
Labor force participation among prime-age workers has been declining for many decades. This memo aims to provide policy makers with a useful framework for thinking about the question: “Why are so many people deciding that seeking work isn’t worth it?”
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
Policies to Reintegrate Former Inmates Into the Labor Force
Contrary to the widely embraced “nothing works” doctrine, we review recent empirical evidence from Norway demonstrating that a well-designed prison system can reduce recidivism and allow for successful re-entry into the labor market.
BY Manudeep Bhuller,
& 2 more
Longform
02.04.2019
US Economy
The Need to Expand Economic Opportunity
The pursuit of economic opportunity for all Americans is as important to the health of the country’s economy as it is to the strength of its democracy. T ...
BY Melissa S. Kearney,
& 1 more
Longform
02.04.2019
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