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?
To combat the negative effects of climate change, making a transition to green energy is vital. But what will happen to people whose jobs are significantly linked to fossil fuel use? And what policy options are available to mitigate the employment effects of such a transition? That was a question ex...
How will the U.S. election affect jobs and the economy? That was the topic of a panel discussion held October 29th, 2024 at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The event, which was sponsored by the MIT Sloan People and Organizations Club and the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER...
Until recently, the link between having a say in the workplace and workers’ job satisfaction and well-being had not been empirically demonstrated by researchers. Now, a new journal article coauthored by scholars from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) addresses that question.
At a presentation at the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research seminar, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn and three additional experts discussed a new book Bailyn coauthored, "Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You."
During the period between 2010 and 2019, something a bit counterintuitive happened in U.S. economic inequality trends. During that time, personal earnings inequality decreased in the U.S. for the first time in a number of decades. But, in the same period, household income inequality continued to gro...
A new collaboration between the MIT Sustainable Design Lab and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aims to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by homes, facilitate the state’s smooth transition to clean energy—and save homeowners money.
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health and Well-Being Committees that allow employees to give input on workplace issues significantly reduc...
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Erin L. Kelly is one of three winners of the 2025 Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Academic Fellows Award; in addition, two alumni of the IWER PhD program, Janice R. Fine and Andrew Weaver, also won LERA awards this year.
The En-ROADS climate solutions simulator team has won the 2025 System Dynamics Applications Award. The award, given by the System Dynamics Society, honors excellence in the real-world application of the principles of system dynamics, a computer-assisted approach to modeling complex systems that orig...
