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EIG’s leadership is drawn from a wide array of backgrounds: policy experts, start-up founders, investors, and academics. What they share is a commitment to creating a more dynamic and innovative ...

Left-behind counties in the United States have just experienced their strongest three-year period of job creation and business growth since the turn of the 21st century. Despite their vigorous ...

There are a variety of estimates of the share of the workforce that is remote, and these sources have differences owing to sampling methods, coverage universe, and other measurement issues. Last week, ...

Manufacturing employment in the United States has surpassed its pre-pandemic levels, the first time since the 1970s that the sector has regained all the jobs it lost in a recession. Yet its recovery ...

The novelty of the OZ mechanism has ushered in a new generation of research as scholars race to grade the policy. Historically, researchers have found little lasting economic impact from legacy “zone” ...

Do H-1B visa holders earn more or less than Americans? There are two different ways to answer this. If we compare H-1B holders to the average native-born worker, the answer is unequivocal that the ...

Yesterday the House Ways and Means Committee passed its first package of tax legislation in the 118th Congress. Included in it are two provisions related to the Opportunity Zones (OZ) tax incentive ...

Economic dynamism has been in decline across the U.S. economy for decades, but new data suggests the High Tech sector, once viewed as an engine of innovation, is no longer as dynamic as it once was.

Recent tremors in the labor market are being pinned on Artificial Intelligence. A cooling job market for technology workers, for example, is taken as evidence of AI-induced job loss. So is the rising ...

American economic dynamism has been in decline for most of the 21st century, and several decades prior, according to a new paper by Ufuk Akcigit of the University of Chicago, NBER, and CEPR, Sina Ates ...

Just in time to inform governors’ work nominating the next round of Opportunity Zone (OZ) census tracts this summer, the Treasury Department has released new data reporting that federal OZ tax ...