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Examines the social change methodology known as “collective impact” through the lens of issue complexity.

Focuses on assessing the effectiveness of labor market policies, including subsidized employment, training, and job search assistance.

Examines the role of apprenticeships in workforce development in the United States and outlines policy recommendations that would spur a large-scale expansion of these programs.

Focuses on skill development, with special attention to the mechanisms that connect education to employment, to address the high global youth unemployment crisis.

This report highlights a strategy that combines short-term measures such as job-friendly macroeconomic and labor market policies with further action to tackle long-standing imbalances and ensure lasting job recovery.

Provides an overview of labour market trends after the global economic crisis by presenting global trends in employment and unemployment projections and analyzing the structural changes in the labour market at a global level.

Presents data on trends in wages around the world and compares them with trends in global labour productivity in order to analyze their complex political, social, and economic effects on the global economy.

Provides an overview of the American Unemployment Insurance (UI) system in comparison to that of European ones and attempts to identify lessons for the U.S. from the European experience.

Proposes a system of work sharing which would give employers an incentive to maintain workers on their payroll at reduced hours as an alternative to laying them off.

Describes short-time compensation (STC) programs as a way to preserve jobs and prevent unemployment.