Job Creation and Workforce Development

Best-Performing Cities China 2016

9 Sep 2016

The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities China ranks the performance of first-, second- and third-tier cities according to recent developments and urbanization trends. It does this through an analysis of the latest and most...

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Regional Performance Over Time: Thriving and Reviving Amid Economic Challenges

11 Aug 2016

What factors distinguish cities that can withstand an economic downturn, or rebound afterward, from those that cannot? Are these factors unique to successful cities, or are there best practices that can be adopted by peer cities? Building...

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Minoli Ratnatunga, Michael Lin, and Perry Wong

11 Aug 2016

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Career Technical Education: Reducing Wage Inequality and Sustaining California’s Innovation-Based Economy

25 Jul 2016

Income distribution in the U.S. and California has become far less equal since about 1980. Much of the rising disparity appears to be the result of increasing returns on capital assets relative to labor earnings (Piketty, 20141). This is...

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Ross Devol

Formerly Milken Institute

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Best-Performing Cities 2016

5 Jun 2016

Which factors are determining the divergence in economic performance of metropolitan areas around the nation? Why are some areas thriving while others fall back? The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities index provides an objective...

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State Technology and Science Index 2014

20 Nov 2014

Massachusetts is first – once again – in the Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science Index 2014. The index is made up of five composites that can be applied across all 50 states for comparison and analysis, with 78 unique indicators...

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Effective Government and Economic Expansion: How California Is Improving Permitting and Communication to Spur Business

23 Jul 2014

As California recovers from the Great Recession, it faces an uphill battle against the perception that it is an anti-business state. Many entrepreneurs balk at what they believe to be a business climate that overtaxes, overregulates, and...

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Kevin Klowden and Jason Barrett

23 Jul 2014

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Local Harvest: Developing the Central Valley Workforce for California's Future Agriculture

10 Jun 2014

California's Central Valley suffers from underinvestment and substandard educational attainment levels, which hamper its ability to both modernize the agriculture value chain and to provide significant advancement opportunities for workers...

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JOBS Act: Comments to the SEC on Crowdfunding

10 Jun 2014

The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission on proposed crowdfunding rules under Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. Generally speaking...

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Daniel Gorfine and Staci Warden

10 Jun 2014

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JOBS Act: Comments to the SEC on Proposed Rule Amendments to Regulation A

1 Apr 2014

The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission on proposed rule amendments to existing Regulation A (Reg A) made pursuant to Section 401 of the Jumpstart Our...

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Daniel Gorfine and Staci Warden

1 Apr 2014

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A Hollywood Exit: What California Must Do to Remain Competitive in Entertainment - and Keep Jobs

1 Apr 2014

California's stronghold on the entertainment industry is loosening as production jobs are lured to other locations due to production credits and other tax breaks. Between 2004 and 2012, the state lost more than 16,000 jobs in filmed...

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Kevin Klowden

Executive Director, Milken Institute Finance

Kevin Klowden is the executive director of Milken Institute Finance. He specializes in the study of key factors that underlie the development of competitive regional economies (clusters of innovation, patterns of trade and investment, and concentration of skilled labor) and how these are influenced by public policy and, in turn, affect regional economies both globally and nationally.

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