Gad Levanon is Chief Economist of The Burning Glass Institute.
Previously, Gad was with The Conference Board where he was founder of the Labor Market Institute and led the Help Wanted OnLine© program. His research focuses on trends in US and global labor markets, the US economy, and their impact on employers.
He is a regular contributor to Forbes and also often contributes opinion pieces to other national media outlets. In 2016, he won the Consensus Economics forecast accuracy award for the US economy for his work at The Conference Board. Levanon is also an adjunct professor in the economics department at NYU.
Prior to The Conference Board, he worked at the Israeli Central Bank. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University and holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from Tel Aviv University.
Authored Reports
No Country for Young Grads
The Structural Forces That Are Reshaping Entry-Level Employment
Labor Market Outlook August 2024
US Labor Market Keeps Cooling Without Tipping into Recession
Labor Market Outlook, April 2024
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
Cities on the Tech Frontier
Assessing Regional Competitiveness by Measuring the Concentration of Leading Edge Skills in the Local Workforce
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?
U.S. Labor Market Outlook March 2023
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object
How Skills Are Disrupting Work
The Transformational Power of Fast Growing, In-Demand Skills
U.S. Labor Market Outlook November 2022
The American Opportunity Index
A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement
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
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