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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
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In an economy with many low-wage jobs, employer-provided training can be an important route to upward economic mobility for workers. But which workers receive training? How do workers obtain new skills?
USA Lab students conduct fieldwork to deepen their understanding of America’s economic and social struggles and uncover sustainable solutions that work. Host organizations like the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque see such positive outcomes that they often return to host again.
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What role can businesspeople play in fostering economic and social justice? That was the topic of an intriguing panel discussion organized at MIT Sloan and held via Zoom.
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.
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Career ladders within organizations are often seen as one way to create opportunities for low-wage workers to move into better-paying jobs. But, in practice, how common is it for low-wage workers in the U.S. to benefit economically from moving to a new job within the same organization?
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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.
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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...
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What happens to company profits, wages, and consumer prices when union membership becomes more affordable for employees? That’s a question posed in an interesting working paper by Samuel Dodini, MIT Sloan Professor Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén.
The Fall 2022 edition of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
