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SUMMARY:Immigration and the Global Labor Force Before and After Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gordon Hanson\, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School.About the Speaker: Gordon Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Hanson received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1992 and his B.A. in economics from Occidental College in 1986. Prior to joining Harvard in 2020\, he held the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UC San Diego\, where he was founding director of the Center on Global Transformation. Hanson previously served on the economics faculties of the University of Michigan and the University of Texas. In his scholarship\, Hanson specializes in international trade\, international migration and economic geography. He has published extensively in top economics journals\, is widely cited for his research by scholars from across the social sciences and is frequently quoted in major media outlets. Hanson’s current research addresses how globalization in the form of immigration and expanded trade with China have affected U.S. local labor markets. In a new endeavor\, he is working with a multidisciplinary team of scholars to use satellite imagery to assess the impacts of expanding transportation networks\, exposure to extreme weather\, and related events on urban economic activity. 	Please RSVP below for this event. Zoom details will be shared on the day of the event.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/immigration-and-the-global-labor-force-before-and-after-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Measuring Soft Skills and the Science of Human Potential
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Deming\, Director\, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy\, HKS; Professor of Public Policy\, HKS; Professor of Education and Economics\, HGSE. 	About the Speaker: David Deming is a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School\, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and the Faculty Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. His research focuses broadly on the economics of skill development\, education and labor markets. He is a Principal Investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative\, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. Deming also studies the “future of work”\, in particular focusing on how technology changes the labor market returns to skills and the resulting implications for college and career pathways. He recently won the David N. Kershaw Prize\, which is awarded biannually to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40. He is currently serving as a coeditor at the AEJ: Applied. 	Please RSVP below for this event. Zoom details will be shared with registered participants on the day of the event.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/measuring-soft-skills-and-the-science-of-human-potential/
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