An Evening of Discovery at the MIT Museum
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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
The Fall 2022 edition of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
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In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clem Aeppli and MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers find that a plateau in U.S. earnings inequality that started around 2012 was primarily due to rapid wage gains by workers at the low end of the labor market,
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Professors Tavneet Suri and Esther Duflo recently participated in a fireside chat at the MIT Sloan Women’s Conference.
A new Bloomberg article features MIT Sloan’s “People and Profits” class, an innovative course both developed and currently taught by IWER faculty members.
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Thomas J. Allen, SM ’63, PhD ’66, a beloved member of the MIT Sloan community for more than half a century, died November 13 after a brief illness. He was 89.
For decades, MIT Sloan Professor Lotte Bailyn has been calling for changes in the way work is organized -- often in ways that have proven prescient.
MIT Sloan students visited startups in Ghana and Kenya to learn from founders.
MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers has been named an incoming Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a leading foundation supporting social science research. This prestigious ten-month fellowship, which begins in September, is awarded to 15-17 scholars in the social sciences each...
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While no one can say for sure yet, it’s possible generative AI might reduce the contemporary societal problem of income inequality. That’s one of the conclusions reached by MIT Sloan School Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers in a new analysis.