A Community of Work and Employment Scholars
The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is home to a highly collaborative mix of thought leaders from MIT Sloan as well as from other departments across the Institute, including Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, and Urban Studies and Planning. Together, we build on and advance MIT’s tradition of intellectual leadership on work and employment topics.
IWER Co-Directors
Emilio J. Castilla
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
NTU Professor of Management
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Erin Kelly
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies
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Anna Stansbury
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Class of 1948 Career Development Assistant Professor
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Nathan Wilmers
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor
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Thomas Kochan
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management; Professor Post Tenure
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Paul Osterman
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Nanyang Technological University Professor
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Susan Silbey
Anthropology Program
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities
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Mary Rowe
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Work and Organization Studies
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Robert B. McKersie
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Management
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Ben Armstrong
MIT Industrial Performance Center
Research Scientist and Executive Director, MIT Work of the Future Initiative
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Nicholas A. Ashford
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Professor of Technology & Policy Director, Technology & Law Program
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David Autor
MIT Department of Economics
Ford Professor of Economics
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Lotte Bailyn
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita
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Jared R. Curhan
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management
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Barbara Dyer
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Research Affiliate
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Roberto Fernandez
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
William F. Pounds Professor in Management
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Robert Gibbons
Economics
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
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Amy Glasmeier
MIT Department of Urban Planning
Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning
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Simon Jäger
MIT Department of Economics
Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Chair Assistant Prof. of Economics
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Kate Kellogg
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation
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Frank Levy
MIT Department of Urban Planning
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Emeritus
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Wanda Orlikowski
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
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Michael J. Piore
MIT Department of Economics
David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus
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Hazhir Rahmandad
Management Science
Schussel Family Professor of Management Science
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Ray Reagans
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
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Ben Ross Schneider
MIT Department of Political Science
Ford International Professor of Political Science & Director, MIT Brazil program
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Kathleen Thelen
MIT Department of Political Science
Ford Professor of Political Science
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J. Phillip Thompson
MIT Department of Urban Planning
Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning
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Zeynep Ton
Management Science
Professor of the Practice, Operations Management
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Yaminette Diaz-Linhart
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
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Dylan K. Nelson
Postdoctoral Fellow, Work and Organization Studies
Nelson is researching how job upgrading can accelerate economic mobility.
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Claire McKenna
B.A. Sociology; M.P.A. Public Policy Analysis
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Arrow Minster
B.A. Economics; M.A. Economics
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Soohyun Roh
B.A. Economics and Sociology; M.A. Sociology
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K. MacKenzie Scott
B.A. Economics and French; M.P.A.
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Di Tong
B.A. English Language and Literature; M.A. Computational Social Science
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Martha Mangelsdorf
Director of Strategic Communications
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Dahye Kim
Assistant Director, IWER
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Lukas Lehner
Visiting PhD Student at MIT IWER, Spring 2023
Lehner is a PhD candidate at Oxford, with a focus on labor market policy.
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Patrick Nuess
Visiting PhD Student at MIT IWER, Spring 2023
Nuess is a PhD candidate at Kiel University, with a focus on labor economics.
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Kyra Rodriguez
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Technical Associate
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Grace DeHorn
Technical Associate/Project Manager
DeHorn works on the Warehouse Work, Health, and Well-being Study at IWER.
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Find out more about alumni of the IWER doctoral program and their work.
Climate Change and Migrant Workers
Research by New York University (NYU) professor Natasha Iskander, who is an alumna of the MIT IWER PhD program, finds that there are companies targeting regions experiencing climate stress when recruiting migrant workers.
IWER Alumni
Graduates of the IWER PhD program have gone on to take up faculty positions in universities all over the world.