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How do women in low-wage service-sector jobs respond to unemployment? That's a question Claire C. McKenna explored in her recent doctoral dissertation in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program.
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"Lifetime vehicle use is likely to be greater than previous generations," researchers find.
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The study estimates that total welfare is reduced dramatically when reopening is not coordinated among states and regions.
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The conference aims to highlight the ways in which artificial intelligence, automation and the changing economy are affecting the future of work.
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In early 2024, privately owned Checkr, a background check tech startup, was a leading voice in the fair chance hiring movement. Fair chance hiring, also known as second chance hiring, referred to the practice of offering fair and equal job opportunities to individuals with criminal records. In addit...
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Data centers that shift workload to different times of day save money, but the environmental impact depends on the local grid.
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A new metric — ‘employment carbon footprint’ — can better help determine the U.S. counties most vulnerable to economic disruption from decarbonization.
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Hiring managers from Netflix, Pfizer, Comcast, and more discuss essential technical skills, soft skills, and finding the elusive “super unicorn” data scientist.
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In Innovation Strategy and Innovation Analytics, new methods for success in high-tech industries.
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"...inducing high team familiarity by keeping team membership intact can limit workers’ opportunities to acquire useful knowledge and alternative practices from exposure to a broader set of partners."
