MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Nathan Wilmers and Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang have won a grant from WorkRise to study how the tasks assigned to low-wage workers affect those workers’ opportunities for wage growth.
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Will 2022 be a year that companies take steps toward creating healthier working conditions for their employees? Certainly, the idea is getting attention as the year gets underway.
The Fall 2022 edition of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
A number of faculty members from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have expressed their support for a new statement defining the attributes of a good job in today’s economy.
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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,
A new Bloomberg article features MIT Sloan’s “People and Profits” class, an innovative course both developed and currently taught by IWER faculty members.
California’s new Fast Food Council law could encourage fast food restaurant owners in the state to improve job quality for workers and follow what’s known as a “high-road” employment strategy, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Tom Kochan argued in a recent article for Fortune.com.
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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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.
What can we learn from the way management and labor leaders in Germany are working together to address the future impacts of technology on business and the workplace? In this article, Thomas A. Kochan, Wilma B. Liebman, and Inez von Weitershausen draw on insights from a September 2018 event on this ...
