With this knowledge, we assist employers, workforce partners and other members of the workforce ecosystem to activate public, private, nonprofit, and social sector resources needed to expand opportunities and promote lasting economic mobility for STARs.
Our emerging community of interdisciplinary scholarship is committed to rigorous research about issues that impact STARs. The research projects below reflect working papers and projects that seek to answer questions with implications for how STARs can achieve economic mobility.
The Psychology of Class Transitions and Belonging at Work for STARs
University of Virginia
Work Experience Works as a Job Market Signal & Searching for STARs: Work Experience as a Job Market Signal for Workers without Bachelor's Degrees
Harvard University
Social Science Researcher
Opportunity@Work
Searching for STARs: Work Experience as a Job Market Signal for Workers without Bachelor's Degrees & Work Experience Works as a Job Market Signal
Opportunity@Work
Director of Data Services
Opportunity@Work
Searching for STARs: Work Experience as a Job Market Signal for Workers without Bachelor's Degrees
Cornell University
Work Experience Works as a Job Market Signal
University of Michigan
Breaking Down Racial Barriers to STARs Success
Duke University
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training Grants
Duke University
Measuring the Skills of STARs for Expanded Employment and Hiring Opportunities
New York University
Improving Equity Through Employing STARs
Cornell University
The Political Economy of COVID-19 Policy Choices: Stay-at-Home Orders and Essential STARs in the States
University of Southern California
The Psychology of Class Transitions and Belonging at Work for STARs
University of Virginia
Social Science Researcher
Opportunity@Work
On Labor Mobility: Career Transitions and Unrealized Potential
Stanford University
Social Psychology
Cornell University
Laboring Through: How Workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes Traverse the American Workplace
Duke University
The STARs Insights Advisory Panel is Chaired by Former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Erica Groshen, and includes a group of advisors with experience in labor economics, workforce development, future of work and related data across the public, private and academic sector. The panel provides expert guidance to Opportunity@Work’s research agenda and insights work.
Senior Extension Faculty at Cornell University
ILR and Former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Assistant Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Study Director
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Former Vice President and Chief Economist
IBM Corporation
Director of Economic Policy Studies and John G. Searle Scholar
American Enterprise Institute
Community Development Research Manager
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia