Anna Stansbury Wins 2021 Dissertation Award from Upjohn Institute
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury is the first-prize winner of the Upjohn Institute’s 2021 Dissertation Awards.
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury is the first-prize winner of the Upjohn Institute’s 2021 Dissertation Awards.
Significant portions of the professional papers donated to the MIT Libraries’ by former MIT ombudsperson Mary P. Rowe (pictured above) have now been digitized, making material about her pioneering work as an ombuds more available to researchers.
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Career ladders within organizations are often seen as one way to create opportunities for low-wage workers to move into better-paying jobs. But, in practice, how common is it for low-wage workers in the U.S. to benefit economically from moving to a new job within the same organization?
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How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect jobs and society? That question, argues MIT Sloan Professor Thomas A. Kochan, is too important to be left strictly to technology vendors.
The book "Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It" by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and University of Minnesota Professor Phyllis Moen is one of two winners of the 2021 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.
MIT Sloan faculty member Nathan Wilmers has won the 2021 ASQ Dissertation Award.
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In this September 2020 statement, the faculty leaders of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan call for significant changes to benefit U.S. workers.
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In an economy with many low-wage jobs, employer-provided training can be an important route to upward economic mobility for workers. But which workers receive training? How do workers obtain new skills?
The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, an MIT-wide task force recently released its report—and the report includes an extensive focus on improving economic prospects for U.S. workers, particularly those who lack a college education.
The pandemic has affected the type of learning the IBM employees in the study pursued, as this graph shows, but the researchers found that "overall learning consumption remains high."