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Practical ways to tackle manufacturing’s labor crunch
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A panel of practitioners explores how to solve worker shortages and offers three best practices for success.
The drastic power of a modest carbon tax
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A $7 per metric ton carbon tax could reduce emissions by the same amount as the flagship climate policies of the Obama administration, a new study finds.
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A selection of current research from the Consumer Finance Initiative
A selection of current research from the Consumer Finance Initiative
Studying How Low-Wage Women Navigate Unemployment
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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.
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...