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Creating and Employing a Skilled Work Force: Challenges and Opportunities
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
November 7, 2011: 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Location: 1st Floor, Yellen Conference Center |
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 5:30-7:00 p.m. |
Reception |
Visitor Information
Please use the Bank's main entrance on Market Street.
Public parking is available in the garage at 123 Mission Street (entrance on Main Street between Mission and Howard Streets, around $26) and in surface lots at Main and Howard Streets (around $15). There are also several parking garages on Spear Street between Market and Howard Streets (around $20 and up).
The Bank is a nonsmoking building.
Neighborhood information
For questions, please contact Katherine Kuang.
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