Jeanne Shu
Jeanne Shu
Strategic Projects Lead, Economy, Strategy & Finance Center
The Conference Board
Jeanne Shu is the Strategic Projects Lead, Economy, Strategy & Finance (ESF) Center at The Conference Board.
She works with the Chief Economist—developing and executing strategic and critical projects for the ESF Center. Jeanne also assists with enterprise level projects for the Chief Strategy Officer.
Jeanne’s responsibilities include overseeing The Conference Board-Lightcast Help Wanted OnLine program, the management of the C-Suite Outlook survey and its deliverables, and the planning of The Conference Board’s Global Insights.
Prior to joining The Conference Board, she was a senior production editor at Routledge, of the Taylor & Francis Group. Jeanne received her MA in Economics at The New School, centering her work in labor economics
Publications by Jeanne Shu
Reports
- C-Suite Outlook 2025: Chile Edition 21 February, 2025
- C-Suite Outlook 2025: Argentina Edition 20 February, 2025
- C-Suite Outlook 2025: Japan Edition 20 February, 2025
- C-Suite Outlook 2025: Seizing the Future 12 January, 2025
Charts
- Early retirement as main reason for leaving labor force 13 December, 2021
- The unemployment rate in computer and mathematical occupations is historically low due to the growing shift to online activity, and increased digital transformation 15 September, 2021
- Much of the acceleration in wages and salaries comes from blue-collar and manual services occupations 05 August, 2021
- Employment in manufacturing is still well below prepandemic levels in many states, with losses especially large in the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific 29 July, 2021
- The trajectory for low wage workers is very different between states that went beyond the federal minimum wage and states that did not. 30 June, 2021
- Racial wage gaps are large and expanding, primarily due to a growing underrepresentation of Black workers in high-paying jobs. 23 June, 2021
- The number of office and administrative workers, the major target of automation in recent decades, is back to prepandemic levels. In the past two recessions, their number dropped and did not recover. 16 June, 2021
- The US working-age population is projected to grow slowly over the next decades due to aging, limiting the supply of labor unless net migration picks up significantly 26 May, 2021
- Leisure and hospitality workers experienced significant growth in average hourly earnings 26 May, 2021
- Blue-collar industries are experiencing greater recruiting difficulties than other industries. 25 May, 2021
- The US working-age population for those without a BA is shrinking, but projected to grow rapidly for those with at least a BA 24 May, 2021