IWER Alumni
Graduates of the IWER PhD program have gone on to take up faculty positions in universities all over the world.
Graduates of the IWER PhD program have gone on to take up faculty positions in universities all over the world.
IWER hosts a weekly seminar on Tuesdays during the academic year. One of the longest-running seminar series at MIT, it features presentations by work and employment researchers from around the world.
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A panel of practitioners explores how to solve worker shortages and offers three best practices for success.
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The designation increases JuMP’s visibility and status, and helps it attract funding
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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.