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Can We Find The Employment High Road In Low-Wage Indusitries?
CAN WE FIND THE EMPLOYMENT HIGH ROAD IN LOW-WAGE INDUSTRIES?
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IWER Faculty Members Coauthor New Report on Management Practices that Foster Economic Mobility
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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Research
MIT Sloan PhD Student Zach Tan Wins Lucea Award
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.
May 20, 2024
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Future of Work
Wilmers Named Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage Foundation
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...
Mar 29, 2024
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Leadership
Castilla Named Chair of the Academy of Management’s Organization and Management Theory Division
MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla is the incoming Chair of the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM), a leading global professional association for scholars of management and organizations.
Oct 3, 2024
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Human Resources
Selected Journal Articles by Erin L. Kelly Related to Workplace Well-Being
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), has coauthored dozens of scholarly articles related to well-being in the workplace, with a particular focus on examining the effects of flexible scheduling initiatives on various measu...
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Economy
Stansbury Named One of 40 Best MBA Professors Under 40
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury has been named to the “40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors” list for 2023 by Poets & Quants, an online publication focused on graduate business education.
Jul 25, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence
The purpose of this paper is to identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
In this December 2023 working paper, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan and five additional co-authors from MIT identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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Labor
Wilmers Wins John T. Dunlop Scholar Award
MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of the winners of the LERA (Labor and Employment Relations Association) 2023 John T. Dunlop Scholar Award. This award recognizes outstanding academic research contributions that address industrial relations and employment problems of national significance, a...
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Economy
When Managerial Discretion about Compensation Brings Lower Pay
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.
Aug 24, 2023