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IWER Alumni
Graduates of the IWER PhD program have gone on to take up faculty positions in universities all over the world.
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.
JuMP achieves a new milestone in the open source community
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The designation increases JuMP’s visibility and status, and helps it attract funding
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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...
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.