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Future of the Credit Information Market: Final report
This project identified the factors influencing change and developed four plausible future scenarios for 2030 that provide insights into the implications for the credit information market, the lending markets, consumers and wider society.
Jul 29, 2021
Commentary
How the Coronavirus Changed the Childcare Debate
Policymakers have long had evidence that childcare enables mothers to work. What the COVID-19 pandemic taught everyone is how the lack of childcare can be a disastrous constraint.
Jul 26, 2021
Report
DoD Cyber Excepted Service Labor Market Analysis and Options for Use of Compensation Flexibilities
In this report, the authors examine labor demand and supply for seven U.S. Department of Defense cyber work roles to help determine whether pay adjustments are necessary to support the recruitment and retention of critical personnel.
Jul 19, 2021
News Release
Nearly a Third of Americans Use Gray Market When Hiring Caregivers for the Elderly and Those with Dementia
Nearly a third of Americans who arranged for paid care for an older person or someone with dementia employed workers who were not hired through a regulated agency.
Jun 21, 2021
Journal Article
Improving Working Conditions Using Artificial Intelligence
This analysis discusses evidence on the expected impact of AI on jobs, the potential for AI to create decent jobs, and the extent to which AI offers opportunities and poses risks to working conditions.
Jun 8, 2021
Report
5G: Great Expectations and Significant Concerns
The development of 5G markets and technologies is more of an enduring competition than it is a race. How are U.S.-based companies faring? And what are the implications of 5G devices, networks, and services for securing data and protecting individual privacy?
May 24, 2021
Blog
Vaccine Hesitancy, Working from Home, Arctic Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a symptom of ‘Truth Decay,’ how to make remote work beneficial for all, U.S. Arctic diplomacy, and more.
May 21, 2021
Blog
Pandemic Education, Working Mothers, Predicting Cyber Threats: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the urban-rural divide in pandemic education, supporting working moms, what makes a good COVID-19 reopening plan, and more.
May 14, 2021
Commentary
Inequality in Opportunity to Work from Home an Underlying Condition Likely Aggravated by the Pandemic
Building a safe, healthy workforce where success, productivity, and financial security are available to all segments of American society could provide resilience against inevitable future shockwaves. Since working from home is a key part of such resilience, policymakers could focus on supporting the advantages, remediating the downsides, and expanding access to this form of work.
May 14, 2021
Commentary
Should Mothers Work? We've Been Asking the Wrong Question
As schools and day cares closed due to the pandemic, millions of women were driven from the labor market. What is it worth to the United States to have mothers in the workforce?
May 10, 2021
Multimedia
RAND Remote: Changing Unemployment and the Post-Pandemic Workforce
In this RAND Remote conversation, Kathryn Edwards discusses ways the pandemic is changing how we treat unemployment. She describes options for workforce recovery, including drawing women workers back into the labor force.
Apr 29, 2021
Research Brief
A New Approach to Measuring Income Inequality
A new method for measuring income inequality reveals that, from 1975 to 2018, the only group for which actual income gains exceeded U.S. GDP growth was the group near the 99th percentile of income distribution.
Apr 29, 2021
Blog
Summer Learning, America's Middle Class, Waking Up After the Pandemic: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how to make summer learning count, U.S. deterrence in the ‘gray zone,’ why so many Americans are stuck outside the middle class, and more.
Apr 23, 2021
Report
Barriers to Entering the U.S. Middle Class
Achieving and keeping middle-class status has become more difficult. Jobs with good pay for those without a college degree are getting exported or eliminated. Earning educational credentials is costly. Existing jobs are increasing education requirements, providing fewer benefits, and may not lead to longer-term careers.
Apr 22, 2021
Research Brief
Reducing Hospital Spending: Three Policy Options
RAND researchers have estimated the effects of policy options to reduce hospital prices paid by private health plans, outlining design choices and effectiveness levels for each approach.
Apr 21, 2021
Journal Article
Study on 'Support to the Observatory for the Online Platform Economy' Analytical paper #4: Online platforms with significant/strategic market status
This paper examines evidence in order to better understand various issues relating to, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of, emerging approaches to identifying online platforms with significant/strategic market status.
Apr 14, 2021
Journal Article
Study on 'Support to the Observatory for the Online Platform Economy' Analytical paper #8: Developments concerning B2B platforms and emerging cloud services
The aim of this analytical paper is to understand developments concerning B2B platforms, and the emerging issues that they may face and that they give rise to.
Apr 14, 2021
Journal Article
Acknowledging and Monitoring the Costs of Seriously Regulating Cannabis
Wilkins & Rychert highlight challenges to achieving the Cannabis Legalization and Control Bill's objectives of reducing cannabis use and harms.
Apr 13, 2021
Journal Article
How High: Differences in the Developments of Cannabis Markets in Two Legalized States
This paper is the first to examine cannabis market data from Washington alongside that from Oregon, two states that are similar in regard to legalizing retail sales of cannabis but differ in terms of their regulatory frameworks.
Apr 13, 2021
Commentary
The Impact of the Pandemic on Demographic Trends
Key demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration are responsible for shifts in the overall structure of any population. COVID-19 has affected each of these, with potentially important implications.
Apr 12, 2021

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Benjamin M. Miller

Economist

Benjamin Miller is an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and a research quality assurance manager for RAND's Social and Economic Well-Being Division.
Christian Van Stolk

Executive Vice President, RAND Europe

Christian van Stolk is executive vice president at RAND Europe. He has worked extensively on health and wellbeing in the workplace. His research in the past has focused on improving the health and wellbeing of staff in the National Health Service in the UK, maintaining and gaining employment for…

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