Senior Research Fellow - Apprenticeship & Workforce Policy

Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is building a research network focused on workforce policy, labor-market measurement, infrastructure workforce capacity, and causal policy evaluation.

We are seeking a Senior Research Fellow — Apprenticeship & Workforce Policy to support current and future externally funded research examining how apprenticeship policy, employer incentives, and workforce-development interventions affect participation, completion, labor supply, wages, and employer demand.

This opportunity is particularly relevant to researchers with experience in registered apprenticeship, labor economics, workforce development, Career Pathways, employer hiring incentives, or state workforce policy.

Current Research Opportunity

WIL is currently developing a quasi-experimental study examining whether state policies that incentivize employers to participate in registered apprenticeship programs produce measurable changes in apprenticeship outcomes and skilled-workforce capacity.

Potential research responsibilities may include:

• refining the research question and causal estimand;
• evaluating treatment and comparison-group design;
• Difference-in-Differences, event-study, synthetic-control, or related quasi-experimental analysis;
• working with RAPIDS / Apprenticeship.gov and other administrative datasets;
• integrating BLS, Census, state workforce, a