North America Worker Prosperity Initiative
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The J-PAL North America Worker Prosperity Initiative 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:
Office:
J-PAL North America
Co-Chairs:
Status:
- Research RFP: Closed
- Partner RFP: Closed
Eligibility:
Researcher RFP: Open to J-PAL affiliated professors, post-doctoral fellows, and invited researchersPartner RFP: Nonprofit, public, or private organizations interested in testing innovative strategies to help workers
Contact:
[email protected]
Featured Content
Policy Publication
File: Policy publication
Sectoral Employment Programs as a Path to Quality Jobs: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations
Review Paper
File: Initiative publication
Preparing for the Work of the Future
Initiative Staff
Sara van Nes, Senior Policy and Training Associate