MIT Sloan’s Phil Budden offers tips to avoid confusing technology with innovation, trying for 10X when 10% will do, and ineffective external engagement.
New research finds a connection between compliance with workplace regulations and the hazards they’re meant to prevent.
These three health care executives have found ways to leverage data for better collaboration.
A customized search program helped low-income families find and move to good neighborhoods to raise their children.
The September 2023 issue of the IWER newsletter "Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs," is now available online.
“The media landscape is full of futurists, academics, and members of think tanks making erratic predictions about robots eating jobs,” says Tom Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at MIT Sloan.
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,
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...
Could a negative income tax replace the welfare system?
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.
