Strengthening Worker Prosperity in North America

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The J-PAL North America Labor team aims to build an evidence-based playbook of strategies to increase opportunities for workers, reduce the economic barriers and social challenges in labor markets, and ensure that all workers share in the prosperity generated by technological change and economic growth.

These strategies and innovations may be related to programs designed to retrain or reskill workers; strategies to improve traditional and non-traditional educational institutions; innovative apprenticeship systems, sectoral employment programs, and alternative approaches for skill certification; strategies to facilitate worker transitions between occupations and industries; organizational practices that improve productivity, skills, earnings, or employment prospects; opportunities in alternative work arrangements; and the impact/opportunity of changing transportation modalities.

We work with nonprofits, government and industry leaders, academic researchers, and other organizations to understand what questions matter most to them and help them use rigorous evaluation to generate evidence on priority research questions related today’s rapidly shifting labor market.

Key Facts

Sectors:
Status:
  • Research RFP: Closed
  • Partner RFP: Closed
For Researchers

Request for Proposals

J-PAL affiliates, invited researchers, and PhD students may submit labor sector proposals to J-PAL North America’s Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI) RFPState and Local Innovation Initiative (SLII), or US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) RFP. Please reach out to our initiative team with any questions.

Initiative Staff

Bridget Mercier, Senior Policy and Training Manager

Sara van Nes, Senior Policy and Training Associate

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