Economic Opportunity in a Volatile Economy

Project Overview

Research Team

Acknowledgements

What's in this Report?

Why Silicon Valley and Milwaukee?

Project Data and Method Overview

Market Meeters vs. Market Makers

Major Findings

Recommendations for Practice and Policy

Building on our Work

Interested in more details?

See the PDF file of our Final Report

See other project documents

Acknowledgements

This research project would not have been possible without major financial support from the Ford, Rockefeller, and Russell Sage Foundations, for which we are very grateful. We also thank the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California for additional funding to attain and process California's Unemployment Insurance system wage record data.

In the course of undertaking this research, we received extraordinary assistance and support from numerous staff and colleagues. Amy Dean was instrumental in conceptualizing the project and seeing to its inception. Comment, insight, and review from Eric Parker, Joel Rogers, Paul Osterman, Michael Reich, and Susan Christopherson have been critical to our work in this area. We received extremely valuable research assistance from Rachel Rosner and Justin Scoggins of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California-Santa Cruz; Matt Zeidenberg and Pablo Mitnik at the Center for Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Louise Auerhahn and Sarah Muller at Working Partnerships USA. Erin Hatton, COWS research assistant, was an integral member of the Milwaukee team, doing field work and profiles of intermediaries and contributing to the survey design. Allisa Jones at the Willamette University Public Policy Research Center provided wonderful assistance with formatting final reports and documents. We would like to thank Lina Guzman, Kelly Elver, and other staff of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center for their patience and perseverance in helping us complete a challenging survey project.