ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are grateful to the cross-sector leaders listed below, whose significant contributions to the Job Quality Measurement Initiative (JQMI) made this report possible. 

While the report draws on meetings with and written recommendations from the JQMI participants listed below, the ultimate product represents a synthesis of many perspectives. As such, participation does not imply endorsement of all recommendations in this report.

Collaborators at the U.S. Department of Labor

We deeply appreciate the engagement of partners across the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), whose vision and deep commitment to advancing good jobs through better measurement inspired the JQMI. Too many DOL partners contributed to the initiative to list here, but below we have named key representatives who participated in meetings and shared priorities, ideas, and feedback. We are particularly grateful to Alex Hertel-Fernandez, whose leadership and expertise helped us see what could be possible with better job quality data.

  • Teresa Acuña, Senior Policy Advisor
  • Chike Aguh, Chief Innovation Officer
  • Cesar Acevedo, Economist
  • Pat Carey, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Current Employment Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics 
  • Heidi Casta, Deputy Administrator, Employment and Training Administration
  • Katherine Eyster, Senior Advisor for Private Sector Engagement
  • Ana Hageage, Employment and Training Administration, Chief of Staff
  • Julie Hatch, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Associate Commissioner for Employment and Unemployment Statistics
  • Alex Hertel-Fernadez, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Evaluation
  • Sara Johnson, Previously Employment and Training Administration, Acting Deputy Administrator, Policy Development and Research
  • Ali Khawar, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Assistant Secretary
  • Raj Nayak, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Assistant Secretary for Policy
  • Nicole Nestoriak, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economist
  • Lynn Rhinehart, Office of the Secretary, Senior Advisor
  • Rukku Singla, Policy Advisor, Good Jobs Initiative
  • Tiffany Smith, Employment and Training Administration, Enterprise Program Advisor
  • Lafe Solomon, National Labor Relations Board, Director of the Office of Representation Appeals
  • Julie Su, Deputy Secretary
  • Kimberly Vitelli, Employment and Training Administration, Administrator of the Office of Workforce Investment
  • Katelyn Walker Mooney, Office of the Secretary, Director of the Good Jobs Initiative
  • Christina Yancey, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation Officer
  • Elaine Zimmerman, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Chief of the Division of Research and Economic Analysis

This report was produced solely by staff of The Families and Workers Fund. Its content is not intended to formally represent any official view or policy of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Planning Committee Members

Families and Workers Fund

  • Rachel Korberg, Executive Director
  • Jenny Weissbourd, Senior Program Manager, Policy and Partnerships

Ford Foundation

  • Ritse Erumi, Program Officer, Future of Work(ers)
  • Livia Lam, Program Officer, Future of Work(ers)

Irvine Foundation

  • Leslie Payne, Initiative Director
  • Landon Dickey, Director of Program Development

Lumina Foundation

  • Courtney Brown, Vice President of Impact and Planning

Omidyar Network

  • Tracy Williams, Director, Reimagining Capitalism
  • Anmol Chaddha, Principal, Reimagining Capitalism
  • John Joanino, Associate, Programs

List of JQMI Working Group Members

Administrative Data

Co-chairs:

  • Bill Congdon, Urban Institute, Senior Fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population 
  • Kathy Stack, KB Stack Consulting, Chief Executive Officer; formerly White House Office of Management and Budget, Deputy Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance and Labor

Members:

  • Sara Chaganti, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Deputy Director, Community Development Research & Communications
  • Robert Manduca, University of Michigan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology
  • Lorena Roque, The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Senior Policy Analyst (Previously Senior Policy Analyst at Center for American Progress)
  • Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy and Economics and Faculty Director, California Policy Lab
  • Jennifer Stiddard, National Skills Coalition, Senior Fellow
  • Jeff Strohl, Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce, Director of Research

Commercial/Employer Data

Co-chairs:

  • Kavya Vaghul, JUST Capital, Senior Director of Research
  • Matthew Walsh, Lightcast (Formerly Emsi Burning Glass), Research Lead

Members:

  • Guy Berger, LinkedIn, Principal Economist
  • Lissa Glasgo, Global Impact Investing Network, Director, IRIS+/Impact Measurement and Management
  • Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences and Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity
  • Brad Hershbein, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Senior Economist and Deputy Director of Research
  • Larry Schlang, Working Metrics, Chief Executive Officer
  • Daniel Schneider, Harvard University, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director, The SHIFT Project
  • Daniel Zhao, Glassdoor, Lead Economist

Federal Statistical Data

Co-chairs:

  • Susan Houseman, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Vice President and Director of Research
  • Susan Lambert, University of Chicago, Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Members:

  • Daniel Alpert, Cornell Law School, Senior Fellow in Financial Macroeconomics and Adjunct Professor; Westwood Capital, LLC, Managing Partner
  • Emily Andrews, The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Director of Education, Labor, and Worker Justice
  • Nick Bunker, Indeed Hiring Lab, Economic Research Director for North America
  • Erica Groshen, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Senior Economics Advisor; formerly U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Commissioner 
  • David Howell, The New School for Social Research, Professor of Urban Policy at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment
  • Pamela Joshi, Brandeis University Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy, Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist
  • Abbie Langston, PolicyLink, Senior Associate
  • Mike Mitchell, The Groundwork Collaborative, Director of Policy and Research
  • Kyle Moore, Economic Policy Institute, Economist, Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy

Performance Data

Co-chairs:

  • Brooke Valle, Independent Consultant; formerly San Diego Workforce Partnership, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer 
  • Renise Walker, Colorado Workforce Development Council, Assistant Director of Systems Innovation

Members:

  • Erica Bouris, International Rescue Committee, Director, Economic Empowerment
  • Amanda Cage, National Fund for Workforce Solutions, President and Chief Executive Officer
  • Alexander Camardelle, The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Director, Workforce Policy Program
  • Maureen Conway, The Aspen Institute, Vice President and Executive Director of the Economic Opportunities Program
  • Josh Copus, Jobs for the Future, Senior Director
  • Kenneth Poole, Center for Regional and Economic Competitiveness, Chief Executive Officer
  • Celeste Richie, Results for America, Vice President, Workforce Development
  • Aaron Sojourner, Senior Researcher, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

List of JQMI Advisors

  • Stuart Andreason, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Assistant Vice President and Director of the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity
  • Cambria Allen-Ratzlaff, JUST Capital, Managing Director and Head of Investor Strategies
  • Margot Brandenburg, Ford Foundation, Senior Program Officer, Mission Investments
  • Krista Brockwood, Oregon Health and Science University, Senior Research Associate
  • Bob Bruno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Director of the Labor Studies Program and Professor of Labor and Employment
  • Efrem Bycer, LinkedIn, Senior Manager of the Public Policy & Economic Graph
  • Mia Dell, Service Employees International Union, National Policy Director
  • Rebecca Dixon, National Employment Law Project, Executive Director
  • Barbara Dyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director, Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative
  • Pamela Egan, University of California, Berkeley Labor Center, Director of Labor-Management Partnerships program
  • Janice Fine, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, Professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and Director, workplace justice lab@RU
  • Jonathan Fisher, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Research Advisor
  • Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University, Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research
  • Terri Gerstein, Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project, Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program
  • Lexi Gervis, Steady, Director of Public Sector & NGO Engagement
  • Adam Goldfarb, Schmidt Futures, Director
  • Julia Goodman, Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health, Associate Professor
  • Bulbul Gupta, Pacific Community Ventures, President & CEO
  • Beth Gutelius, University of Illinois, Chicago, Research Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development
  • Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School, Edward Cornell Professor of Law
  • Hande Inanc, Mathematica, Senior Researcher
  • John Irons, Siegel Family Endowment, Senior Vice President and Head of Research
  • Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology
  • Sarah Kalloch, Good Jobs Institute, Executive Director
  • Erin Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies and Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
  • Molly Kinder, Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, Fellow
  • Julia Lane, New York University, Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics and Professor at the Wagner School of Public Service
  • Yannet Lathrop, National Employment Law Project, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst
  • Tolu Lawrence, JUST Capital, Managing Director of Programs & Partnerships
  • Pamela Loprest, The Urban Institute, Senior Fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center
  • Claire Mattingly, U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, Senior Program Associate
  • Kelly McCarthy, Global Impact Investing Network, Chief Impact Officer
  • Michelle Miller, Coworker.org, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
  • Miranda Nelson, Jobs to Move America, National Director
  • Milena Nikolova, University of Groningen, Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow
  • Alison Omens, JUST Capital, Chief Strategy Officer
  • Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior
  • Maria Posey, Third Sector Capital Partners, Managing Director
  • Heidi Schierholz, Economic Policy Institute, President
  • Fran Seegull, U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, President
  • Hana Shepherd, Rutgers University, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Abby Snay, California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Deputy Secretary for Future of Work
  • Anna Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies
  • Irene Tung, National Employment Law Project, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst
  • Roxana Tynan, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, Executive Director
  • Warren Valdmanis, Two Sigma Impact, Partner
  • Susannah Vickers, Lafayette Square Foundation, Executive Director
  • Till von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Economics and Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab UCLA
  • Rick Wartzman, Drucker Institute, Head of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society
  • Hilary Wething, Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
  • Lee Wheeler-Berliner, Colorado Workforce Development Council, Managing Director
  • Caroline Whistler, Third Sector Capital Partners, Co-Founder and CEO
  • Nathan Wilmers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Sarofim Family Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies
  • Tom Woelfel, HCAP Partners, Senior Director of Impact
  • Duanyi Yang, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Assistant Professor
  • Ahu Yildirmaz, Coleridge Initiative, President & Chief Executive Officer; formerly ADP Research Institute, Founder and Co-Head
  • Haeyoung Yoon, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Senior Policy Director
  • Marina Zhavoronkova, Center for American Progress, Senior Fellow, Workforce Development

Lastly, we would like to extend a special thanks to Social Strategy Associates, who played an important project management and facilitation role in this initiative, and to Brooke Valle, who served as both an engaged co-chair of the performance working group and a lead partner in the conceptualization and development of this report.