Indiana’s Unfair Competitive Advantage at the Tech Frontier

An October 2023 Burning Glass Institute (BGI) report identifying and assessing “Cities on the Tech Frontier,” makes the case that a proper evaluation of regional economic competitiveness cannot rely only on measurements of workforce size and earnings. Instead, evaluations should also focus on the quality of the workforces based on their communities’ concentration of leading-edge […]

Heartland Labor Arbitrage Defined (Why onshoring in Indy makes sense)

In today’s business world, the growing freedom of international trade coupled with a trend toward globalization is influencing the way we conduct business. One of the effects of globalization is labor arbitrage, which refers to the movement of workers or jobs because of changing economic conditions. Global labor arbitrage occurs when jobs move to nations […]