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The Food Supply Chain Analytics and Sensing (FSAS) Initiative is creating predictive analytical tools and technologies to improve the design and management of safe and reliable food supply chains
Practical ways to tackle manufacturing’s labor crunch
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A panel of practitioners explores how to solve worker shortages and offers three best practices for success.
The drastic power of a modest carbon tax
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A $7 per metric ton carbon tax could reduce emissions by the same amount as the flagship climate policies of the Obama administration, a new study finds.
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.
Understanding South Korea’s Gender Gaps in Employment and Wages
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What factors explain the large differences in employment rates and wages between men and women in South Korea? That’s a question explored in a paper by MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of the German Marshall Fund, and Harvard University Professor Karen Dynan that w...
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.