Taking #jobQuality into consideration reveals that even when the #unemployment rate is low, workers in the lowest-quality occupations can face bleak labor market prospects. Read more: https://t.co/GD486Kf85F
Some jobs lost during the pandemic will never come back. In part, that’s due to automation — something that was happening long before the coronavirus emerged.
But there's a free, online tool to help workers identify new opportunities. https://t.co/fHN1ycOPzW
Understanding #JobAccess—the number of jobs in a fixed distance or travel time from a worker’s home—can help us learn more about #EconomicMobility and opportunity. See our latest report for job access trends over a ten year period: https://t.co/4TpCSdVtKE
Over the last ten years that we have data for, workers’ access to employment within a “typical commuting distance” declined an average of 1.7% across 96 US metro areas. Read more about #JobAccess in our latest report: https://t.co/4TpCSdVtKE #EconomicMobility
Call for papers now open: Federal Reserve’s Uneven Outcomes in the Labor Market Conference. Submissions due July 25th. Learn more here: https://t.co/6Gc2SdgPvA
@mpopov1229@AshleyAPutnam@philadelphiafed@ClevelandFed ...over the business cycle. We also feel that it is unlikely that skills needed for an occupation have changed since March. Moreover a focus on skills vs. degrees will help to ensure that we have an equitable recovery.
@mpopov1229@AshleyAPutnam@philadelphiafed@ClevelandFed We know employers are more likely to ask for a BA in slack labor markets so I see where you are going. We rely on skills listed in online job ads for an occupation to produce our results. Our conclusions are likely to hold as long as skills needed for an occ. remain constant ...
@EGPacetti@PhilFedComDev We use skills found in online job ads to illustrate the potential benefits of emphasizing skills rather that degrees. Surprise! We find that focusing on skills has the potential to markedly increase annual wages for lower wage workers.
The legacies of Cleveland’s racial discrimination will not be easily erased, write @larafishbane + @AdieTomer, but a commitment by civic actors to the digital equity space can contribute to lifting the area’s communities up. Read the new blog. https://t.co/jgL8g1QjHS
“Opportunity Occupations” by the @ClevelandFed & @PhilFedComDev identifies occupations that pay a decent wage & doesn’t require a BA. We also look at % of metro employment these occupations account for. Fact sheets for 121 metros too!
“Opportunity Occupations” by the @ClevelandFed & @PhilFedComDev identifies occupations that pay a decent wage & doesn’t require a BA. We also look at % of metro employment these occupations account for. Fact sheets for 121 metros too!
What the public doesn’t know about the Fed. I have never met a group who thinks about the economic fortunes and misfortunes more than the people who work within the @federalreserve system. They care bc they consider it their job to care, admit & learn why they were wrong & evolve
I co-authored this study w/ @richeypipes & @kyle2826: "Chase said a driving factor in Cleveland's winning application was a 2017 study by Cleveland State University that identified areas in the city with Opportunity Zone designations" cc @JohnLettieri@kenanfikri
Read the Cleveland Fed’s latest economic commentary, “Changes in the Occupational Structure of the United States: 1860 to 2015”
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