Gad Levanon, Ph.D.

Director of Macroeconomic Research The Conference Board

Gad Levanon is director of macroeconomic research at The Conference Board, where he also leads the labor markets program. He also serves on The Demand Institute™ leadership team. Levanon created The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™, a widely used measure that fills the need for a leading index of employment. His research focuses on trends in U.S. and global labor markets, consumer trends, and forecasting using economic indicators. Levanon is the principal writer of The Conference Board Labor Markets in Review™, a quarterly publication that documents the main trends in labor markets across the globe. He also writes a popular blog on labor markets for Human Capital Exchange™. In addition to writing reports for The Conference Board, he has published extensively in academic and professional journals. Before coming to The Conference Board, Levanon worked at the Israeli Central Bank where he participated in the analysis of financial markets and monetary policy. Levanon received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, and he holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Publications by Gad Levanon, Ph.D.

Economics Program Working Paper Series

• Projecting Global Growth
  13 November, 2012
• Using the Leading Credit Index^TM to Predict Turning Points in the U.S. Business Cycle
  20 December, 2011
• Comprehensive Benchmark Revisions for The Conference Board Leading Economic Index^® for the United States
  20 December, 2011
• Projecting Economic Growth with Growth Accounting Techniques: The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2012 Sources and Methods
  15 November, 2011
• U.S. Workers Are Delaying Retirement: Who and Why, and Implications for Businesses
  09 September, 2011

Economics Watch Reports

• The Conference Board Economics Watch^® United States View
  22 May, 2012

Executive Action Report

• Trapped on the Worker Treadmill?
  31 January, 2013
• Feeling the Pain: Wage Growth in the United States during and after the Great Recession
  26 April, 2012
• Recession Aftermath: What the Delayed Retirement of Mature Workers Means for Business
  20 March, 2012
• U.S. Workers Delaying Retirement: What Businesses Can Learn from the Trends of Who, Where, and Why
  19 May, 2011
• Where Are the Jobs?
  05 May, 2011
• The Great Recession and Household Savings
  07 February, 2011
• The 2010 Productivity Brief: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies
  20 January, 2010

Periodical

• The Conference Board Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012
  17 December, 2012
• The Conference Board® Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 2, No. 2
  16 July, 2012
• The Conference Board® Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 2, No. 1
  26 January, 2012
• The Conference Board® Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 1, No. 1
  04 October, 2011

Research Report

• The Incredible Disappearing Office: Making Telework Work
  29 May, 2012
• Performance 2011: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies
  07 June, 2011

External Publications

• Vivian Chen, Abhay Gupta, Andre Therrien, Gad Levanon and Bart van Ark (2010), "Recent Productivity Developments in the World Economy: An Overview from The Conference Board Total Economy Database," International Productivity Monitor, Spring, pp. 3-19.