MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla sees tremendous potential in people analytics, which he defines as a data-driven approach to improving people-related decisions in organizations.
MIT Sloan researchers reviewed and analyzed the findings of more than 360 academic articles to identify employer practices that have a positive effect on the economic mobility of disadvantaged workers, including those without a college degree and workers of color. Here's what they found.
Hint: They Involve food.
New research finds that when U.S. companies switched away from standardized pay rates for blue-collar jobs in the late 1970s and 1980s, workers’ real wages declined.
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.
The September 2023 issue of the IWER newsletter "Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs," is now available online.
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...
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.
The Fall 2024 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is available online. The theme is “What Helps—Or Hinders—Career Progress.”
