An Evening of Discovery at the MIT Museum
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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
The Fall 2022 edition of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
A number of faculty members from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have expressed their support for a new statement defining the attributes of a good job in today’s economy.
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In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clem Aeppli and MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers find that a plateau in U.S. earnings inequality that started around 2012 was primarily due to rapid wage gains by workers at the low end of the labor market,
A new Bloomberg article features MIT Sloan’s “People and Profits” class, an innovative course both developed and currently taught by IWER faculty members.
California’s new Fast Food Council law could encourage fast food restaurant owners in the state to improve job quality for workers and follow what’s known as a “high-road” employment strategy, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Tom Kochan argued in a recent article for Fortune.com.
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Three MIT students who took the USA Lab class this past spring say their team project exploring the effects of the pandemic on immigrants in northeast Iowa was an experience they will not soon forget.
MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman explains the importance of developing industry-specific strategies to improve the jobs of low-wage workers.
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CAN WE FIND THE EMPLOYMENT HIGH ROAD IN LOW-WAGE INDUSTRIES?
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Involving Workers In Technological Change