The December 2025 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The theme is "Insights on Upward Economic Mobility."
MIT at COP30: How Research, Policy, and Collaboration is Leading to Actionable Outcomes
Insights from the 2025 HSI Lab Research Workshop
Across Africa, currency volatility remains one of the most significant barriers to delivering truly mission-aligned capital. Despite decades of effort from policymakers, DFIs, and investors, the capital that flows into education and other high-impact sectors is still overwhelmingly dollar-denominate...
What factors make it easier—or harder—for workers, particularly those in low-wage jobs, to achieve upward economic mobility and better employment opportunities? The following collection of links highlights some of the research and analysis related to this topic that has been conducted in recent ye...
Behind the headlines lies a widening gap between U.S. fiscal revenues and outlays—a structural imbalance with profound implications for the Federal Reserve and the broader economy. Join Peter Fisher—Distinguished Senior Fellow at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy [...]
Valentina Videva Dufresne is the President of North America and a Group Executive Committee member at Zehnder Group and a member of the MIT EMBA Class of 2021.
MIT Sloan Professor Nelson Repenning, PhD ’96, talks about his 2025 book "There's Got to Be a Better Way," co-authored with Senior Lecturer Donald Kieffer.
With debt burdens mounting in the United States and abroad, policymakers have shown renewed interest in using government investment strategies to address fiscal imbalances. In this policy brief, MIT Sloan Distinguished Professor and MIT GCFP [...]
Porsche, the iconic German automobile manufacturer known for its high-performance sports cars, has a rich history that dates back to 1931 having been started originally as an engineering office. Almost 50 years ago, the company’s Porsche 928 revolutionized suspension technology—with the legendary We...
