IWER
IWER Research Seminar Series
The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research hosts a weekly seminar every Tuesday during the academic year. One of the longest-running seminar series at MIT, it draws faculty and students from across the Institute and the wider academic community. Seminars are held on Tuesday afternoons from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in a hybrid format, with both in-person and remote attendance options; contact iwer@mit.edu for more information.
Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) Spring 2023 Seminars
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February 7, 2023
Lorenzo Lagos (Brown), “Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs”
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February 14, 2023
Tom VanHeuvelen (University of Minnesota), "The Consequences of a Unionized Career"
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February 21, 2023
NO SEMINAR
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February 28, 2023
Lukas Lehner (Oxford), “Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program”
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March 7, 2023
Arrow Minster (MIT Sloan), “Managers Making Movies: How and When Workers’ Problems Are Addressed”
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March 14, 2023
Patrick Nüß (Kiel University), "Management Opposition, Strikes, and Union Threat"
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March 21, 2023
NO SEMINAR
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March 28, 2023
NO SEMINAR
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April 4, 2023
Conrad Miller (UC Berkeley), “The Dynamic Effects of Co-Racial Hiring”
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April 11, 2023
Yaminette Díaz-Linhart (MIT Sloan), “Too Many Voices on Voice, or Is There Room for More? Diversifying Voice Research through Worker Well-Being”
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April 18, 2023
Karen Levy (Cornell), “Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance”
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April 25, 2023
Di Tong (MIT Sloan), "In Search of the High Road: Do Low-Wage Employers Shift Management Practices in Response to Minimum Wage Increases?"
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May 2, 2023
Raj Choudhury (Harvard Business School), “‘Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment”
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May 9, 2023
Anna Stansbury (MIT Sloan), “Leaky Pipeline, Slippery Ladder: Socioeconomic Background in Academia” (with Kyra Rodriguez)
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May 16, 2023
Sandra V. Portocarrero (Columbia), "Racialized Expertise: The Consequences of Perceiving and Presenting Workers’ Ethnoracial Background as a Type of Expertise"