Research Library

Talent at Risk
The Crisis Facing Global Health Research and What Can Be Done

Good Company, Wrong Job
Why a Brand is No Guarantee

Sidetracked: The Hidden Crisis in Mid-Career Mobility
What the Career Histories of 1.3 Million Professional Workers Reveal About Why They Stall, and How They Get Unstuck

Breaking the Bottleneck: Expanding Work-Based Learning in Colorado

The Company You Keep
The Outsized Effect of Employer Practices on Pay, Promotion, and Retention

Programs That Make a Difference
Outcomes for Georgia State University Student Success Participants

Credential Fluency
The Hiring Advantage in the Race for Skills

Which Skills Matter Now?
A Data-Driven Framework for K-12 in the Age of AI

The AI Skill Domains Reshaping Work
The Most Important Skills Where AI is Transforming Work Today

Measuring What Matters
A New Framework for Evaluating Non-Degree Credential Quality

Out of Sight, Out of Data
How Lack of Good Data on Rural Workforces Stymies Planning

The Detroit Region’s Jobs That Mobilize
Connecting Workers and Employers in Healthcare and Automotive Manufacturing

Beyond the Binary
How Automation and Augmentation Are Combining to Reshape Work

The Skillability Index
Data-Driven Diagnostics to Advance SkillsBased Practices

Mind the Technician Gap
Why the UK Lacks the Skilled Workforce to Deliver Its Industrial Strategy

Decision Skills in the Workforce

The Singapore Opportunity Index
A groundbreaking analysis of the talent strategies that drive corporate competitiveness.

Skills-First Workforce Initiative Expands to 30 Roles, Encompassing over 35 Million Workers
How to Implement Shared Skill Taxonomies in Your Organization

Retail's Tech Transformation
Upskilling Frontline Employees for Next-Gen Careers

The Expertise Upheaval
How Generative AI’s Impact on Learning Curves Will Reshape the Workplace

No Country for Young Grads
The Structural Forces That Are Reshaping Entry-Level Employment

Talent Disrupted
College Graduates, Underemployment, and the Way Forward

Holding Credentials Accountable To Outcomes
We Need Evidence-Based Funding Models

The Jobs That Mobilize Framework
A Data-Driven Playbook for America’s Workforce

The British Opportunity Index
How Great Britain's largest companies drive economic mobility and positive career outcome for their employees.

Launchpad Jobs
Achieving Career and Economic Success Without a Degree

October AI Bulletin
Mapping the Spread of AI Skills Across America

How Data Systems Can Do More To Advance Economic Mobility

Labor Market Outlook August 2024
US Labor Market Keeps Cooling Without Tipping into Recession

Managing Up
Managing Education as a Ladder to Mobility

Labor Market Outlook, April 2024

Skills For A Sustainable Future
How Green and Digital Skills Intersect and Will Change the Future of Work

The Importance of Understanding Non-Degree Credential Quality

Building a Common Language for Skills with Major US Employers

Top Colleges for High-Paying Jobs

Reimagining the Public Library's Role in Local Workforce Development

Data Science Is for Everyone

How America's Largest Employers Advance Economic and Social Mobility
An analysis of career outcomes for millions of U.S. workers

Closing Racial Gaps in Economic Opportunity: Progress Made, More Needed

Skills-Based Hiring: The Long Road from Pronouncements to Practice

Company Generative AI Exposure Rankings

Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Workforce

America’s Tech Hubs Are Multiplying
How Tech Powerhouses’ Diaspora Are Fueling the Rise of New Cities on the Talent Frontier

U.S. Labor Market Outlook December 2023
Hard Landing? Soft Landing? Why the Year Ahead Will Bring No Landing

Untapped Potential: How new apprenticeship approaches will increase access to economic opportunity
Our report in partnership with Multiverse on expanding the use of apprenticeship models in the US to drive greater worker opportunity.

Measuring the ROI of Degrees in the UNC System
Our report in collaboration with Deloitte and the rpk GROUP on behalf of the North Carolina Board of Governors.

Cities on the Tech Frontier
Assessing Regional Competitiveness by Measuring the Concentration of Leading Edge Skills in the Local Workforce

A Playbook for the Inclusive Hiring of Later-Career Workers

The 2023 American Opportunity Index
Read our latest study, in partnership with the Schultz Family Foundation and the Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work.

Women’s Work
Growth in Women's College Attainment Will Drive Blue-Collar Labor Shortages

U.S. Labor Market Outlook July 2023
Surging Ahead: Amidst One of the Tightest Labor Markets on Record, Demand Is Thriving. What Lies Ahead?

Growing Quality Green Jobs
Driving Economic Advancement in the Green Economy

Making the Bachelor’s Degree More Valuable

U.S. Labor Market Outlook March 2023
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

2023 Skills Compass Report
Strategic skills planning for upskilling and reskilling the workforce

How Skills Are Disrupting Work
The Transformational Power of Fast Growing, In-Demand Skills

U.S. Labor Market Outlook November 2022

A Guide to Improving Recruitment, Retention, Advancement and Equity

The American Opportunity Index
A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

Shifting Skills, Moving Targets, and Remaking the Workforce
Our analysis of 15 million job postings illuminates the future of work

The Through-the-Looking-Glass Recovery
New, complex dynamics in the U.S. economy suggest that employment in some industries won’t come back from the pandemic

HBR: Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise

The Emerging Degree Reset
How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage

Dynamos for Diversity
How Higher Education Can Build a More Equitable Society