Read the Spring 2023 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
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MIT Sloan Adjunct Professor Mary P. Rowe, a pioneer in the organizational ombuds profession, has made many of the articles she has written over her career freely available on her personal webpages at MIT Sloan.
Why do many U.S. colleges give preference to applicants who are relatives of alumni? A new paper coauthored by MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla sheds light on this question.
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Do policies that it easier for employees to juggle work and family needs increase the ability of women to advance in organizations? New research from Eunmi Mun, Shawna Vican, and MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly suggests that was indeed the case with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the U...
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How do 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 happens to company profits, wages, and consumer prices when union membership becomes more affordable for employees? That’s a question posed in an interesting working paper by Samuel Dodini, MIT Sloan Professor Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén.
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New research by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers and two coauthors finds that having certain kinds of tasks in a job description allows new employees, including frontline workers, to earn more.
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This collection of links highlights some of the research and analysis on work and well-being that has been conducted in recent years by scholars affiliated with the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) and their colleagues at other universities.
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The past several years have seen an upsurge of worker activism in the United States and with it, an increasing interest in the concept of worker voice—that is, efforts by workers, either individually or collectively, to have a say on workplace issues that matter to them. This collection of links hi...
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In an effort to attract a diverse pool of talented candidates, many contemporary U.S. employers seek to craft gender-neutral job postings by editing language in the postings that may have masculine or feminine connotations. But how much difference do such practices make in reality? Not that much, su...
