The December 2023 issue of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) newsletter includes a special focus on women and work.
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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.
An updated and expanded version of the “Work Design for Health” employer toolkit—developed by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the MIT Sloan School of Management—has been launched.
MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla’s new book, "The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them," will be published soon by Columbia University Press and is now available for preorder.
MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers has been named an incoming Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a leading foundation supporting social science research. This prestigious ten-month fellowship, which begins in September, is awarded to 15-17 scholars in the social sciences each...
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CAN WE FIND THE EMPLOYMENT HIGH ROAD IN LOW-WAGE INDUSTRIES?
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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.
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In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clem Aeppli and MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers find that a plateau in U.S. earnings inequality that started around 2012 was primarily due to rapid wage gains by workers at the low end of the labor market,
MIT Sloan School of Management Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of 23 members of the MIT faculty who recently received MIT’s Committed to Caring award for 2023-25. The Committed to Caring program recognizes MIT faculty members who are exceptional mentors to graduate students.
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At a presentation at the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research seminar, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn and three additional experts discussed a new book Bailyn coauthored, "Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You."
