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.
Ask most people to point to Central Asia on a map, and chances are they’ll hesitate. Yet this region spanning vast steppes, celestial mountains and centuries of history sits at the crossroads of civilizations, resource-rich, culturally layered, and geopolitically central. So why does it remain on th...
On May 25, the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), held a virtual celebration of the careers and contributions of three esteemed IWER faculty members: Thomas Kochan, Paul Osterman, and Barbara Dyer.
The MIT Executive MBA Program is an extraordinary opportunity for rising executives to challenge themselves, to challenge convention.
Resources from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) to help improve job quality
A conversation covering the systemic issues facing entrepreneurs from marginalized communities and discussed the changes that are needed in our cultural, economic, and educational systems to catalyze their growth.
Afarin Bellisario, ScD ’80, SM ’90, recently published her first novel, which tells the story of an Iranian Muslim woman as her country modernizes.
For years, physicists tried to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some things like cities, ideas, innovation ecosystems grow disproportionately larger and more influential than others? Why do a few nodes attract attention, resources, and talent, while most remain peripheral?
The “urban wage advantage” for workers without a college degree is sliding fast. Black men have suffered the steepest drops.
In an effort to attract a diverse pool of talented candidates, many contemporary U.S. employers seek to craft gender-neutral job postings by editing language in the postings that may have masculine or feminine connotations. But how much difference do such practices make in reality? Not that much, su...
