Digital delivery of job training programs and career development services allows educational material to meet a worker where they are, matching their availability or need for specific content, to help them explore, navigate, and grow in their career paths.
Domain Statement
Historically, worker training required meeting in a physical space and at a given time, and it was difficult to tailor worker training to individual circumstances. And yet the limited empirical evidence evaluating worker training programs has typically found only modest success.
We are working on a variety of research projects and collaborations to improve the opportunities for workers to smoothly transition between industries and to achieve better economic outcomes. When workers better understand which programs meet their needs, they make more informed decisions, and in turn, effective training programs are incentivized to expand and better tailor their offerings to those workers who most benefit from their services.
Project Abstracts
Read about some of the labor mobility research projects the lab is working on.