Palak Shah has been named a Senior Fellow at the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) for the 2024-2025 academic year.

MIT Sloan Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn has published a new book, Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, that she coauthored with four other scholars: Teresa M. Amabile, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram.

Three scholars from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have been interviewed on “The Work Goes On,” a podcast series hosted by Orley Ashenfelter, the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Princeton University.

The August 2024 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online.

To combat the negative effects of climate change, making a transition to green energy is vital. But what will happen to people whose jobs are significantly linked to fossil fuel use? And what policy options are available to mitigate the employment effects of such a transition? That was a question ex...

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.

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...

MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan has published an op-ed in a November 2024 ballot question in Massachusetts

The April 2023 issue of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) newsletter is available online. The theme of this edition of the newsletter is "Generative AI and the Future of Work"

Zach Tan, a first-year doctoral student in the Economic Sociology research group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has won the 2024 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award.