Gad Levanon
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Chief Economist at The Burning Glass Institute. Here you'll find labor markets and economic insights before they become mainstream.
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Gad Levanon is Chief Economist at The Burning Glass Institute. He also teaches economics at NYU.
Gad holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, and as a native of Israel, he holds undergraduate and master's degrees from Tel Aviv University. From 1996 to 1998 he worked at the Israeli Central Bank where he participated in the analysis of financial markets and monetary policy.
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Who Still Goes to College? The New Demographic Divide in Four-Year Enrollment
Who Still Goes to College? The New Demographic Divide in Four-Year Enrollment
By Mels de Zeeuw and Gad Levanon Introduction Over the last decade, leaders of four-year colleges have become…
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When Worry Is the Rational Response
When Worry Is the Rational Response
This week, I spoke at the Student Success US 2025 conference. As I prepared for the event, one message kept rising to…
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AI and Living Standards: The Glass Half Full.
AI and Living Standards: The Glass Half Full.
Most commentary on AI centers on job loss, automation risk, and rising inequality—and rightly so. In the coming…
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Where I Part Ways with the Consensus (It’s a Long List)
Where I Part Ways with the Consensus (It’s a Long List)
Introduction and Executive Summary Most economic commentary today leans negative: growth is fragile, tariffs are…
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The Long Game: How College Rankings Change Over the Career Lifecycle
The Long Game: How College Rankings Change Over the Career Lifecycle
By Gad Levanon, Joseph Winkelmann and Mels de Zeeuw Introduction Understanding the long-term economic value of a…
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AI Exposure and Labor Market Change: What the Charts Do (and Don’t) Show
AI Exposure and Labor Market Change: What the Charts Do (and Don’t) Show
In a recent analysis, Martha Gimbel, Molly Kinder, Joshua Kendall, and Maddie Lee—researchers at The Budget Lab at Yale…
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Where the Productivity Gains Really Are
Where the Productivity Gains Really Are
GDP by industry for Q2 just came out. I dug into the data and found some striking—and I mean really striking—patterns.
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College Numbers Down, Degrees Up: Understanding the Post-2010 Enrollment Shift
College Numbers Down, Degrees Up: Understanding the Post-2010 Enrollment Shift
By Joe Winkelman, Gad Levanon and Mels de Zeeuw After decades of expansion, American higher education has entered a…
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How Can the Economy Boom While Personal Income Stalls?
How Can the Economy Boom While Personal Income Stalls?
The economy isn’t in a recession. But real personal income might be.
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Who’s Still Quitting? The Uneven End of the Great Resignation
Who’s Still Quitting? The Uneven End of the Great Resignation
By Gad Levanon and Mels de Zeeuw The quits rate is a key barometer to understand the labor market. It’s a key proxy for…
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You can see the same exponential gain in AI abilities over time for areas ranging from math to doing long tasks… …but this time the graph is of the…
You can see the same exponential gain in AI abilities over time for areas ranging from math to doing long tasks… …but this time the graph is of the…
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College Enrollment Is Shifting Our latest Labor Matters looks at four-year college enrollment rates for 18–24-year-olds. One chart (Figure 2) makes…
College Enrollment Is Shifting Our latest Labor Matters looks at four-year college enrollment rates for 18–24-year-olds. One chart (Figure 2) makes…
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The “Enrollment Crisis” is misframed: young adults are steady—older adults are vanishing. Contrary to the headlines, four-year enrollment rates…
The “Enrollment Crisis” is misframed: young adults are steady—older adults are vanishing. Contrary to the headlines, four-year enrollment rates…
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This thought provoking contribution merits attention from those with an interest in lifelong learning and education
This thought provoking contribution merits attention from those with an interest in lifelong learning and education
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This chart shows two very different immigration trends moving in opposite directions. The blue line (right axis, in hundreds of thousands) is border…
This chart shows two very different immigration trends moving in opposite directions. The blue line (right axis, in hundreds of thousands) is border…
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Why the Q3 Recession Calls Look Even More Out Of Touch New government data keeps coming out after the shutdown. This chart shows quarterly…
Why the Q3 Recession Calls Look Even More Out Of Touch New government data keeps coming out after the shutdown. This chart shows quarterly…
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Why the Q3 Recession Calls Look Even More Out Of Touch New government data keeps coming out after the shutdown. This chart shows quarterly…
Why the Q3 Recession Calls Look Even More Out Of Touch New government data keeps coming out after the shutdown. This chart shows quarterly…
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📈 Youth unemployment has surged from 6.6% to 10.4% in just 18 months, and recent college grads are hit hardest. What's driving this trend? Is AI a…
📈 Youth unemployment has surged from 6.6% to 10.4% in just 18 months, and recent college grads are hit hardest. What's driving this trend? Is AI a…
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New from me: When students turn to artificial intelligence to do assignments, it’s usually to do the work easier, faster and, to the chagrin of…
New from me: When students turn to artificial intelligence to do assignments, it’s usually to do the work easier, faster and, to the chagrin of…
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Thanks to Anuz Thapa from CNBC for using The Burning Glass Institute report and including me in this excellent video. #economy #labormarjets…
Thanks to Anuz Thapa from CNBC for using The Burning Glass Institute report and including me in this excellent video. #economy #labormarjets…
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Youth unemployment in the U.S. is climbing. For 16-to-24-year-olds, the rate jumped from 6.6% in April 2023 to 10.4% in September, according to the…
Youth unemployment in the U.S. is climbing. For 16-to-24-year-olds, the rate jumped from 6.6% in April 2023 to 10.4% in September, according to the…
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Ben Casselman has a strong story today describing what my quote calls the "two track economy" in which the "#AI goldrush is generating all the…
Ben Casselman has a strong story today describing what my quote calls the "two track economy" in which the "#AI goldrush is generating all the…
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The Worst May Be Behind Us in Payroll Momentum Month-to-month job growth is noisy enough that you can talk yourself into almost any story. Here’s…
The Worst May Be Behind Us in Payroll Momentum Month-to-month job growth is noisy enough that you can talk yourself into almost any story. Here’s…
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Something crazy happened to me today— AI used an article I wrote to answer a question I asked. It feels like a Yoda moment: The question you ask—…
Something crazy happened to me today— AI used an article I wrote to answer a question I asked. It feels like a Yoda moment: The question you ask—…
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