Job Creation and Workforce Development

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...