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| Joseph Allen
December 11, 2020, Video: "What is the latest scientific information about airborne COVID-19 transmission? And how might that information impact strategies around school and workplace closures and reopenings, particularly in light of recent COVID-19 case surges? Harvard Chan’s Joseph Allen, a healthy buildings expert, joined The World’s Elana Gordon for this Facebook Live Q&A. Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
| Dani Rodrik
December 8, 2020, Opinion: "Long before the pandemic, the United States had been losing middle-class jobs, owing to automation, deindustrialization, global competition, and the advent of the “gig economy.” Fortunately, if President-elect Joe Biden's administration heeds the evidence about what works, it can mitigate this trend and boost economic recovery."…
| Jason Furman
December 4, 2020, Opinion: "The US economy added 245,000 jobs in November, continuing the slower pace seen in recent months—even as the economy remains 10 million jobs short of its February peak and 11 million short of trend. And while the official unemployment fell from 6.9 percent in October to 6.7 percent in November, the underlying employment situation deteriorated as the labor force participation rate and employment-population ratio both…
| Frances Frei
December 2, 2020, Video: "In this episode of Talks at GS, Frances Frei discusses her work advising companies on how to spearhead cultural change and insights on leadership from her book, "Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You." Learn More "
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| Douglas Elmendorf | Lawrence H. Summers | Jason Furman | Kenneth Rogoff
December 1, 2020, Video: "Wendy Edelberg of Brookings, Douglas Elmendorf of Harvard, and Michael Strain of American Enterprise Institute discussed near-term fiscal policy. Then former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman of Harvard will present a paper arguing that persistently low interest rates require a rethinking of the framework for fiscal policy. Their presentation was followed by discussion with former Federal Reserve…
| Robin Ely | David Thomas
November 2020, Opinion: "Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance. This article critiques the popular rhetoric about diversity and revisits an argument the authors made 25 years ago: To fully benefit from increased racial and gender diversity, organizations must…
| Joseph Fuller
November 17, 2020, Paper: "The right talent, in the right place, at the right time, is the equation for success in today’s world. In an era of technological change, demographic shifts, and economic uncertainty, companies can enhance their ability to compete by building a flexible work model. Their adaptable approach to talent can be a dynamic force that improves their competitive strategy.A few leading companies are rethinking their entire…
| George Borjas
November 2020, Paper: "Beginning in 1951, the Conference Board constructed a monthly job vacancy index by counting the number of help-wanted ads published in local newspapers in 51 metropolitan areas. We use this Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration changes the number of job vacancies in the affected labor markets. Our analysis revisits the Mariel episode. The data reveal a sizable drop in Miami’s HWI relative to comparable cities…
| Douglas Elmendorf | Joseph Aldy | Nicholas Burns | Jason Furman | Juliette Kayyem | Wendy Sherman | Sandra Susan Smith
November 12, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School faculty discuss the challenges faced by the incoming U.S. presidential administration, and possible policy prescriptions for dealing with them." Watch Via HKS on Youtube
November 2020, Paper: "This paper was presented at the October 2019 Cornell ILR Conference on “Models of Linked Employer-Employee Data” celebrating Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis's 1999 AKM decomposition model, and at the Stanford SIEPR “Working Longer and Retirement” conference, also held in October 2019. Thanks to Nicole Fortin and Paul Oyer for comments. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau or the…