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.

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.

Academics often use the En-ROADS climate solution simulator with their students, but Dr. Petra Molthan-Hill is getting the tool in front of leaders in the public and private sector.

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...

When Rubén Lozano Aguilera, MBA ’13, submitted his MIT Sloan admission application, he stated that his ultimate goal was to work on sustainability at a major corporation—he’s reached that goal in a big way.