Seminars are held Tuesdays 1:00–2:30 p.m. in Bldg. E62-346. Lunch will be held before the seminar, from 12:30–1:00 p.m.
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| February 7 |
Matthew Bidwell, University of Pennsylvania What Happened to Long Term Employment? The Role of Worker Power and Environmental Turbulence in Explaining Declines in Worker Tenure |
| February 14 |
Brigham Frandsen, Harvard University Why Unions Still Matter: The Effects of Unionization on the Distribution of Employee Earnings |
| February 21 | No Seminar |
| February 28 |
Matt Amengual, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pathways to Enforcement: Labor Inspectors and Linkages in Argentina NOTE: This session will begin at 12:30 pm (lunch at 12:00 pm) for a special discussion with John August, Executive Director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions; and Donna Lynne, President of Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado Region. |
| March 6 |
Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst Minimum Wages and the Structure of Low Wage Labor Market |
| March 13 |
Michael Handel, Northeastern University The Measured Pace of Progress: The Surprisingly Gradual Rate of Evolution in the Job Structure of OECD Countries |
| March 20 |
Richard Murnane, Harvard University U.S. High School Graduation Rates: Trends and Explanations |
| March 27 | No Seminar |
| April 3 |
Ariel Avgar, University of Illinois Employing Technology: Organizational Learning, Work Design, and the Adoption of Health Information Technology |
| April 10 |
Patricia Cortes, Boston University The Relative Quality of Foreign Nurses in the US |
| April 17 | No Seminar |
| April 24 |
David Finegold, Rutgers University Developing the 21st Century Workforce: Analyzing the evolving education and training systems of India and China |
| May 1 |
Kenneth Hudson, University of South Alabama Dual Labor Market Theory and Its Unanswered Question |
| May 8 |
Kevin Lang, Boston University The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results. |
| May 15 |
Andrew Weaver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Is Credit Status a Good Signal of Productivity? |
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Extra IWER Documents
Past IWER Seminar Schedules
Professor Paul Osterman, codirector of IWER, is coauthor of “Working in America — A Blueprint for the New Labor Market,” a book which aims to initiate a national debate over the deep-rooted problems facing the labor markets.
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