Michael Klein will edit the EconoFact website, which publishes explanatory pieces from leading economists working on policy-relevant topics.
Jeffrey Zabel, Keren Horn, and Henry Pollakowski will examine how individuals fare after being laid off from work. They will analyze the trajectories of workers who lost their jobs during the Great Recession to examine how job loss affected their employment, earnings, and geographic location. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers.
Jeffrey Zabel, Keren Horn, Richard Peiser, and Henry Pollakowski will examine how individuals fare after losing their jobs as a result of involuntary layoffs and assess what these patterns might mean for efforts to increase employment rates and economic opportunity. They will analyze individual-level data on employment patterns of workers who lost their jobs during the Great Recession. Those data will be used to examine how laid-off workers adapted to the shock of employment loss, including how the loss affected their employment, earnings, geographic location, and education level. The project’s findings will be published in a series of papers.
Michael Klein will commission analyses from leading economists summarizing their research on a variety of topics related to economic growth and opportunity. The project’s output will appear on the EconoFact website.