The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information (LMI) Institute, welcomes Chris Worley as he presents, “Spatial Shifts in Daytime Population Due to COVID – Impacts and Increasing Levels of Remote Work.” Geospatial distribution of workers […]
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information Institute (LMI), welcomes Andrew Hait as he presents, “Improving Access to Key Census Data: What’s New on the COVID Data Hub and Census Business Builder (CBB).” The Census […]
Continue ReadingThe economic recovery is taking shape and will look very different across industries and occupations. In this forum, Senior Economist at Oxford Economics, Michael Reid will help viewers better understanding relevant economic and workforce data through the prism of two potential decline and recovery scenarios. He will walk attendees through potential shapes of the recovery […]
Continue ReadingDo workforce development programs make workers better off? Which programs are most effective, and for whom? Answering these types of questions requires you to think like a program evaluator. This workshop will use plain-English explanations and real-world examples to help you understand the basic concepts of impact evaluation and the methods researchers use to gauge […]
Continue ReadingStates maintain flexibility in the information they require from employers on the wage records of their employees. There has been a growing movement among federal and state agencies, researchers, and even businesses to “enhance” Unemployment Insurance wage records (EWR) to include more data, including hours worked and occupational codes, to better assess job market demands, […]
Continue ReadingThe Bureau of Labor Statistics has endured many years of stagnant funding and that has impacted one of the most significant funding streams for state labor market information. BLS provides grants to state LMI agencies to support data clean-up of unemployment insurance records and several surveys. States have suffered an effective 50% cut in BLS […]
Continue ReadingJoin us and learn more about how your investment in the LMI Institute has promoted the development, interpretation, and use of labor market information during the past year. In this webinar the LMI Institute Board will share outcomes, talk about new products, highlight upcoming events, the newly adopted 2021 – 2023 strategic plan, and preview […]
Continue ReadingThe WIAC is a Federal Advisory Committee that recommends ways to improve the nationwide workforce and labor market information systems to the Secretary of Labor. The new committee, appointed in mid-2020, reconvened in September and December 2020 to begin work on new recommendations to a new administration about how to change Federal statistical agencies and […]
Continue ReadingNovember 18, 2020 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information Institute (LMII), welcomes Matthew Staiger as he presents, “Job-to-Job Flows and the Consequences of Job Separations.” Moving to a […]
Continue ReadingWhen policymakers lack the right tools for the job, policy suffers. Official economic markers do not measure the realities that low-income families face: which essentials they need to live and work in the modern economy, and how the costs of those goods have changed over time. The ALICE measures help to fill this gap. ALICE […]
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