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."
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...
In an essay for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly reflects on America's job-quality crisis and how to address it.
Meritocracy has become an increasingly popular term. But MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains in The European Business Review that saying an organization is meritocratic can increase bias.
In an October 2024 article for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan School Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan and UC San Diego Professor John S. Ahlquist explain the steps involved in forming a union.
Ahead of the presidential inauguration, MIT Sloan's Professor Andrew Lo and other panelists described advances in their research and how these discoveries are being deployed to benefit the public.
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) co-leads this executive education Course with MIT Professors David Autor and Sandy Pentland.
In a new podcast, MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury explains her research on the links between the decline in U.S. workers’ power in recent decades and increasing income inequality.
Most executives today understand that if their companies are to thrive in an increasingly competitive and dynamic marketplace, they must hire and retain the most talented employees.
The LFE is actively involved in research that aims to identify methods for measuring and managing risk, both standard and systemic types of risk.
