5 insights into the digital economy from MIT researchers
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Research about quantum computing, companies run by “geeks,” and how artificial intelligence will affect workers.
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Research about quantum computing, companies run by “geeks,” and how artificial intelligence will affect workers.
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Workers need healthy challenge, complexity, and connection, automation expert Matt Beane argues in his book “The Skill Code.”
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A new study finds that artificial intelligence has been adopted unevenly in the U.S., with use clustered in large companies, industries such as manufacturing and health care, and certain cities.
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How to women in low-wage service-sector jobs respond to unemployment? That's a question Claire C. McKenna explored in her recent doctoral dissertation in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program.
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What factors explain the large differences in employment rates and wages between men and women in South Korea? That’s a question explored in a paper by MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of the German Marshall Fund, and Harvard University Professor Karen Dynan that w...
Three members of the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have received seed grants from MIT to produce papers exploring some of the societal impacts of generative artificial intelligence.
The September 2023 issue of the IWER newsletter "Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs," is now available online.
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Hint: They Involve food.
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New research finds that when U.S. companies switched away from standardized pay rates for blue-collar jobs in the late 1970s and 1980s, workers’ real wages declined.
The joint effort by MIT Sloan students participating in MIT Solve aims to transform micronutrient dosing for children by harnessing the power of data.