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Charting Employers' Human Capital Investments in Frontline Retail Workers

May 6, 2024
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Improving Employment Outcomes for Individuals Released from Prison

Jun 25, 2023

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Commentary

Jun 24, 2024

Centers of Excellence Can Support Federal Programs' Mission and Enhance Engagement with Underserved Communities

Centers of Excellence, academic consortia that engage in research to support federal agencies, can help federal programs expand their geographic reach and increase the diversity of their technical workforce.
Commentary

Jun 6, 2024

The Long Run: High-Quality Employee Investments Boost Stock Performance

Using AI to analyze SEC disclosures, RAND economists found that retailers' post-2020 filings contain important nuggets about how they are investing in people—and that this information can often predict stock performance.
Research

May 6, 2024

Charting Employers' Human Capital Investments in Frontline Retail Workers: Evidence from SEC Filings

The research in this report explores how large retail companies invest in the human capital of frontline workers and whether disclosures of those investments in annual filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission affect company valuations.
Research

Dec 20, 2023

The Forces We Need: Building Multi-Capable Airmen to Enable Agile Combat Employment

This report documents the findings and recommendations from a study focused on helping the Air Force refine its emergent Multi-Capable Airmen (MCA) concept and identify next steps for developing an Air Force–wide approach to build and sustain MCA.
Research

Jun 26, 2023

Improving Employment Outcomes for the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Returning Citizens

Gainful employment is a key factor in reducing recidivism, but individuals released from federal prisons face significant barriers to employment. This report presents findings from a workshop held to explore related challenges and opportunities.
Commentary

Jan 19, 2023

Immigrant Location Policies Can Be Done Right, but That Isn't Happening Right Now

Sudden influxes of migrants across the southwest U.S. border are not new, but they are also increasing. Immigration relocation policies are likely one of the best ways to address migrant surges if done in an organized, humane, and thoughtful way.
Commentary

Apr 25, 2022

The Value of Institutional Capacity Building Through Professional Military Education

Security cooperation rarely makes headlines. But it enhances the security of the United States and its allies and partners in an effective and cost-effective way, and may deserve more attention and support.
Research

Mar 29, 2022

Optimal Allocation of Seats in the Presence of Peer Effects: Evidence from a Job Training Program

We model optimal treatment assignment in programs with a limited number of seats and study how the presence of peer effects impact the optimal allocation rule and us data from an RCT to show there are peer effects in the job training context.
Commentary

Feb 16, 2022

Ukraine Invasion Could Spark a Massive Refugee Crisis

One fallout of a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be a massive refugee or migration crisis. If that happened, there would be significant humanitarian, political, and economic implications for both the Ukrainians who flee and for the European nations they go to.
Research

Nov 16, 2021

Recruiting and Hiring a Diverse and Talented Public Sector Workforce

This report identifies promising strategies that public-sector agencies, colleges and universities, and community organizations can pursue to increase the flow of talented and underrepresented workers into public-sector careers.
Commentary

Mar 26, 2021

Colombia's Trailblazing Model for Refugees

Colombia recently announced it will give temporary protection status to a million undocumented Venezuelan refugees, with permission to live and work in the country for 10 years. In doing so, it created a new model for managing its own refugee situation and perhaps others elsewhere.
Expert Insights

Jan 26, 2021

Reimagining the Workforce Development and Employment System: How a More Connected System Can Support Students, Workers, and Firms

Testimony presented before the Florida House of Representatives Education & Employment Committee on January 26, 2021.

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