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Legatum Conference: "Innovation in Global Growth Markets"
Held at the MIT Samberg Conference Center, the event featured in-depth discussions on the role of innovation in driving economic growth and sustainable development.
Understanding South Korea’s Gender Gaps in Employment and Wages
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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...
IWER Faculty Members Win Seed Grants to Explore Impacts of Generative AI
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.
Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs
The September 2023 issue of the IWER newsletter "Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs," is now available online.
Identifying the U.S. Locations that Most Facilitate Cross-Class Mingling
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Hint: They Involve food.
When Managerial Discretion about Compensation Brings Lower Pay
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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.
Stansbury Named One of 40 Best MBA Professors Under 40
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury has been named to the “40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors” list for 2023 by Poets & Quants, an online publication focused on graduate business education.
In New Harvard Business Review Article, Kochan Advises Executives to Become “Labor-Savvy.”
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan has coauthored “The Labor-Savvy Leader,” a new feature article published in the July-August issue of Harvard Business Review magazine. The article, which Kochan coauthored with venture capitalist Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, and Liba Wenig Rubinste...