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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.
Generating Opportunities With Generative AI
Professor of the practice Rama Ramakrishnan, SM ’90, PhD ’94, helps companies explore the promises and perils of large language models and other transformative AI technologies.
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.
Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs
The September 2023 issue of the IWER newsletter "Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs," is now available online.
Identifying the U.S. Locations that Most Facilitate Cross-Class Mingling
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Hint: They Involve food.
When Managerial Discretion about Compensation Brings Lower Pay
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New research finds that when U.S. companies switched away from standardized pay rates for blue-collar jobs in the late 1970s and 1980s, workers’ real wages declined.