Income inequality has been increasing in the United States in recent decades, to a level higher than in a number of other comparable economies. But what’s driving that rise?
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The future of work will include remote work, but that isn’t all there is to the hybrid model.
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MIT economist Daron Acemoglu spoke during a webinar organized at MIT Sloan titled “Ethical Automation: Shaping the Future of Work.”
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On May 25, the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), held a virtual celebration of the careers and contributions of three esteemed IWER faculty members: Thomas Kochan, Paul Osterman, and Barbara Dyer.
Optimax Systems, Inc., located in upstate New York, is a privately held precision optics manufacturer whose mission is to enable both customer success and employee prosperity.
A good job is a way out of poverty. With that idea in mind, Barbara Dyer has for decades been focused on good jobs—and, in particular, how organizations can create more of them for workers.
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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.
The Fall 2022 edition of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
A number of faculty members from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have expressed their support for a new statement defining the attributes of a good job in today’s economy.
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In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clem Aeppli and MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers find that a plateau in U.S. earnings inequality that started around 2012 was primarily due to rapid wage gains by workers at the low end of the labor market,
