Projects
WIL’s founding projects are open research questions shown as work in development, deliberately distinct from completed findings. Listed outputs are expected—not completed or authorized publications.
Founding open research projects
These three projects establish shared research infrastructure and empirical questions for the institution’s early program of work.
How should America’s skilled workforce be consistently classified across occupations, specialties, skills, credentials, industries, and labor-market data systems?
Develop a shared, versioned vocabulary for skilled-workforce research so roles, trades, credentials, and capability requirements can be compared across sources without implying false equivalence.
Expertise needed: Occupational classification, Skilled trades, Taxonomy engineering, NLP methods, Workforce researchWhere are major infrastructure investments likely to place overlapping demands on the same skilled workforce?
Develop a governed geographic research view connecting data-center, power-generation, and transmission/grid project evidence with comparable workforce measures while keeping lifecycle, coverage, timing, and uncertainty visible.
Expertise needed: GIS, Labor economics, Infrastructure research, Energy and power, Data engineeringWhen an employer posts a job, how reliably does that posting represent a real and current hiring need?
Develop lifecycle-aware methods that distinguish postings, unique vacancies, hiring activity, filled positions, and employer intent without treating those concepts as interchangeable.
Expertise needed: Labor economics, Organizational research, Econometrics, Job-posting data, NLP methodsParticipate
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