IWER RESEARCH SEMINAR, 15.691

Seminars are held Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in Bldg. E52-598. Lunch will be held before the seminar, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Fall 2009

Date Speaker
Sept 15 Helen Ying Hsi, IWER
Evidence of the Fundamental Flaw of the Mass Production Paradigm (PDF)
Sept 22 James B. Rebitzer, Boston University
Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Fictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance (PDF)
Sept 29 Emilio J. Castilla, IWER
The Paradox of Meritocracy: Hidden Risks in Merit-based Performance Systems
Oct 6 Jonathan Koppell, Yale University
The Political Dynamics of Global Rulemaking (PDF)
Summary (PDF)
Oct 13 Monday Schedule, No Seminar
Oct 20 Siobhan O’Mahony, Boston University
Progressing to the Center: Coordinating Collectively Managed Knowledge Work (DOC)
Oct 27 Hiroshi Ono, Texas A&M University
Free agents in an embedded world: Career mobility in the Japanese financial sector (PDF)
Nov 3 Thomas DiPrete, Columbia University
The Relational Structure of Executive Pay (PDF)
Nov 10 Lisa Cohen, London Business School
The Road to Entitlement: The Impact of Administrative Imperatives, Power Dynamics and Organizational Demography on the Creation of New Job Titles (PDF)
Nov 17 Michael Lipsky, DEMOS
Reflections on Street Level Bureaucracy
Nov 24 Ofer Sharone, IWER
Blame Games: Job Search Institutions and the Dynamics of Unemployment (PDF)
Dec 1 Brigham R. Frandsen, MIT Department of Economics
Union Wage Setting and the Distribution of Employee Earnings: Evidence from Certification Elections
Dec 8 Thomas Kochan, IWER
The Long-Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State's Taylor Law

All are welcome to attend any of the seminars. Please contact Jacalyn Martelli (Tel: 617-258-8360 / E-mail: jmartelli@mit.edu / Office: E52-580) to be added to our mailing list.

Professor Paul Osterman

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.
More >>