Creating Better Pathways to Economic Mobility

BUILDING THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK

The Project on Workforce is an interdisciplinary, collaborative project between the Harvard Kennedy School's Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, the Harvard Business School Managing the Future of Work Project, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

NEW RESEARCH

The Workforce Almanac Interactive Data Portal

Learn More

FEATURED RESEARCH (view all)

Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

Addressing the Labor Shortage in Massachusetts: Engaging Untapped Talent

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of College Admissions

PROJECTS (view all)

Data and Technology in Action: Advancing Economic Mobility at Community Colleges

The Project on Workforce is excited to announce a new research and design project with Education Design Lab’s (EDL’s) Community College...

The Workforce Almanac Data Portal: Mapping the workforce development sector

The Almanac is an interactive directory offering a comprehensive view of ~17,000 workforce training providers across the United States.

The College-to-Jobs Initiative: Exploring the intersection of higher education and the workforce

The College-to-Jobs Map visualizes data on colleges, economic mobility and graduation rates, job postings, and employment in one place.

The Harvard Skills Lab: Measuring higher-order skills for better teams and organizations

Workforce Training. The Harvard Skills Lab creates new, performance-based, scalable measurement tools for higher-order skills.

MEDIA (view all)

Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification

David Deming

Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification

How to Manage Workforce Risk Amid Old Challenges, New Disruptions

Joseph Fuller

How to Manage Workforce Risk Amid Old Challenges, New Disruptions

Why the U.S. Gender Wage Gap Hasn’t Narrowed in Decades

Peter Blair

Why the U.S. Gender Wage Gap Hasn’t Narrowed in Decades

How to recruit with softer skills in mind

Raffaella Sadun

How to recruit with softer skills in mind

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

Equipping the Next Generation of Leaders

Learn More