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Nick Brenner was looking forward to traveling to Leon County, Florida in March to do fieldwork as part of MIT Sloan’s USA Lab class. Then the pandemic hit—and those plans changed.
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While no one can say for sure yet, it’s possible generative AI might reduce the contemporary societal problem of income inequality. That’s one of the conclusions reached by MIT Sloan School Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers in a new analysis.
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In a recent paper, MIT Sloan’s Paul Osterman finds evidence that companies have choices about the wages they pay, and that some companies can be successful through “High Road” employment practices that result in better-quality jobs. But it's not at all clear, he concludes, that such High Road employ...
WorkRise has published a new report that reviews and synthesizes academic research on employer practices that foster economic mobility for disadvantaged workers. The report, "Employer Practices and Worker Outcomes: A Landscape Report," was coauthored by faculty affiliated with the MIT Institute for ...
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2023 marked the 50th anniversary of Mary P. Rowe’s tenure at MIT, where she began as the Special Assistant to the President and Chancellor for Women and Work—a role that evolved into an early organizational ombuds, listening to workplace concerns, from both men and women, throughout the Institute.
The Fall 2022 edition of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
USA Lab Class Honored with "Ideas Worth Teaching" Award
The September 2023 issue of the IWER newsletter "Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs," is now available online.
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MIT Sloan MBA student Riddhima Sharma shares insights learned from a panel at MIT Sloan on "Managing with Fairness: The Role of People Analytics."
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This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and lowe...
