Carl Van Horn

Strategically Virtual: Voices from the field–Workforce responses to COVID-19

October 20, 2021

Researchers were able to ascertain a clearer picture of the challenges, triumphs, and lessons learned from local workforce development professionals trying to simultaneously help people in need and personally and professionally stay above water in an extremely new and stressful environment.

Wages and Wealth: Loss of work and income insecurity by race and ethnicity

August 4, 2021

A new research series from the Heldrich Center explores the impact of the pandemic on New Jersey workers and households by different demographics.

Strategically Virtual: Implementing job search services in a virtual environment

July 29, 2021

As workforce agencies plan their return to in-person services, the workforce system needs to consider not only the quality and content of its services, but also how to continue on the virtual journey that began in March 2020.

More states are ending jobless benefit, but will workers return?

July 13, 2021

“When there’s a quick ramping up of the (economy), there’s a quick demand for workers and that means the people who pay more are going to get those workers ... just as when there’s a labor surplus they’re able to pay less and still get a competent workforce,’’ says...

Chronic jobless find work in a tight market

June 9, 2021

The drop in long-term unemployment, if it continues, would be a welcome development for the recovery from the coronavirus recession. Workers who experience long bouts of unemployment often have a tougher time getting hired because their skills may erode and they face...

Federal Unemployment Aid Is Now a Political Lightning Rod

June 7, 2021

Of the more than 4 million people whose jobless benefits are going to be cut off in the next few weeks, Bre Starr will be among the first. That is because Starr — a 34-year-old pizza delivery driver who has been out of work for more than a year — lives in Iowa, where...

Higher wages and help wanted ads are plentiful, but workers aren’t filling jobs in NJ

May 14, 2021

Take leisure and hospitality out of the overall job market equation, the reserve said, and “there is relatively little decline in the correlation” between unemployment and job vacancies. Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development...

The future of work is flexibility

May 7, 2021

If you ask labor experts what the future of work will look like, most are reluctant to commit. “The future work is uncertain,” said one. “Uh, I would say the future of work is in flux,” said another. “The future of work is not predetermined,” offered a third. That’s...

These were the in-demand industries that survived the pandemic

March 24, 2021

Even after businesses were allowed to partially re-open in late spring last year, many wound up going bankrupt, closing their doors forever. But there have been exceptions. Carl Van Horn, the director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers...

Strategically Virtual: A review of New Jersey public libraries’ virtual services

March 12, 2021

Researchers looked at NJ public library websites and how they have pivoted to virtual services, particularly focusing on the unemployment resources available.