Creating and Employing a Skilled Work Force: Challenges and Opportunities

Date

Monday, November 7, 2011

1:00 p.m.	Opening Remarks John Fernald, Associate Director of Research, FRBSF
1:15 p.m.	Session I “Has the Great Recession Raised U.S. Structural Unemployment?” Marcello Estevao, Deputy Chief, International Monetary Fund (presentation) “Strengthening Community Colleges’ Influence on Economic Mobility” Louis Jacobson, President, New Horizons Economic Research (presentation) Discussant: Hans Johnson, Bren Policy Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California (presentation)
2:30 p.m.	Break
2:45 p.m.	Session II “The Spread of Good Jobs for the Less Skilled: ‘Modern Retail’ as the New Manufacturing” Kathryn Shaw, Professor of Economics, Stanford Business School (presentation) “Where Are All the Good Jobs Going?” Harry Holzer, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University (presentation) (supplemental tables) Discussant: Steven Raphael, Professor of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley (presentation)
4:00 p.m.	Break
4:15 p.m.	Session III Roundtable discussion and audience questions Includes presenters from above plus: Rob Black, Golden Gate Restaurant Association and Workforce Investment San Francisco Mike Hannigan, Give Something Back Office Supplies and Oakland Workforce Investment Board Phyllis McGuire, City College of San Francisco Jack Mills, Insight Center for Community Economic Development (presentation)
5:30-7:00 p.m.	Reception