Nathan Wilmers
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Working on wage inequality, economic sociology, unions, and work. associate professor @MITSloan.
I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
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Per Engzell
5 months ago
Great work! In Scandinavian data that lets us look at a longer career span up to age 40 we find much higher referral rates. Direct = working at father’s workplace. Indirect = working with a former colleague of father. Forthcoming with
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ILR Review
3 months ago
How does increased worker
#voice
benefit
#wages
? Dylan Nelson
@uofillinois.bsky.social
and
@natewilmers.bsky.social
@mitsloan.bsky.social
show that worker voice pays earnings premium that is attributable to increased
#productivity
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#power
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doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
3 months ago
What happens when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas into their production processes? Productivity is generally higher—and so is production worker pay. New findings from Dylan Nelson of UIUC &
@natewilmers.bsky.social
@mitiwer.bsky.social
:
tinyurl.com/4vhswpvr
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The Effects of Worker Voice on Manufacturing Pay and Productivity | MIT Sloan
New research finds that when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas, both productivity and worker pay are generally higher.
https://tinyurl.com/4vhswpvr
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MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
22 days ago
Nice new profile of MIT Professors
@natewilmers.bsky.social
@mitiwer.bsky.social
@mitsloan.bsky.social
& Rohit Karnik of MIT Mechanical Engineering, for their skill at mentoring graduate students:
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Cultivating confidence and craft across disciplines
Rohit Karnik and Nathan Wilmers were selected as “Committed to Caring.” These MIT professors encourage their students, advocate for meaningful, interesting research, and participate in their research ...
https://tinyurl.com/yajarpas
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Jonathan Horowitz
4 months ago
This paper from
@tomlyttelton.bsky.social
and
@natewilmers.bsky.social
is amazing. It shows that removing educational requirements can have big impacts for workers...except that employers don't really hire those workers below the normal education level anyway.
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Jake Rosenfeld
6 months ago
Early results suggest Chavez-DeRemer's prior pro-labor stances weren't exactly deeply held.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump to cut protections for home health aides, migrant farmworkers
The Labor Department unveiled an “aggressive deregulatory” effort this week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/02/trump-labor-department/
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Washington Center for Equitable Growth
6 months ago
"Cuts to social programs will have a major impact on local economic activity." Social programs are a key part of the regional economic base.
@robertmanduca.bsky.social
on how Medicaid and SNAP cuts in the
#ReconciliationBill
will negatively impact local economies:
equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and...
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
6 months ago
My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today.
www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...
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Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
http://www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/recapitalizing-america-redux/
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Tom VanHeuvelen
7 months ago
At the blog I wrote about a new paper by
@natewilmers.bsky.social
,
@zparolin.bsky.social
, and
@lukaslehner.bsky.social
. We're living in a novel era of inequality discordance. What's going on?!
asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...
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Danny Schneider
about 2 years ago
David Weil & I are hiring a full-time post-doc to work with us on new strategic enforcement research. Folks interested in computational methods, labor policy, industrial relations, labor economics, etc.. pls apply (+ don't hesitate to get in touch)! Apps due 1/8/24
shift.hks.harvard.edu/about/jobs/
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Jobs - The Shift Project
Shift is hiring!  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Opportunity  About the Position Professors Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School) and David Weil (Brandeis University) are recruiting one full-ti...
https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/about/jobs/
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Jerry Davis
about 2 years ago
"Is this the end of corporate capitalism?" Probably not the end--but an opening for alternatives.
lpeproject.org/blog/is-this...
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Anna Stansbury
about 2 years ago
"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper:
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)
twitter.com/annastansbur...
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https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.37.4.207
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Dirk Witteveen
about 2 years ago
New paper in Socio-Economic Review! We examine the relationship between the density of college majors in occupations and occupation-level earnings. This "major specialization" of occupations boosts earnings, over and above closure mechanisms and skills.
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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Matt Beane
about 2 years ago
When it's time to change... we change. Here's my Substack:
www.wildworldofwork.org
I'll publish every couple weeks on this wild world of work we now inhabit: how we're handling intelligent tech and how we could do better. I couldn't ask for better early readers than you folks: please subscribe!
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Arin Dube
about 2 years ago
Another strike! Strikes happen when 2 sides differ in view of power balance. Unionized employers in America are only slowly realizing workers have more leverage now than in decades past. A key reason: historically tight labor market over past 5 years.
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UAW workers reject Mack Trucks contract, go on strike
The union said 73 percent of its workers had voted against a tentative agreement the two parties hashed out a week ago.
https://washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/09/mack-truck-strike-uaw/
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Anna Stansbury
about 2 years ago
Just the MOST incredible news! 🎉🎉🎉
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Aaron Sojourner
about 2 years ago
Some relevant lit abt workers dealing with imperfectly observed employer heterogeneity:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/28mbj...
www.nber.org/papers/w29623
www.nber.org/papers/w30266
What else do you know in this area?
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What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers | Journa...
Workers struggle to understand prospective employers. Through experienced workers’ volunteered reviews, Glassdoor is a platform seeking to provide information about prospective employers to job seek...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/721701
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For this new site audience: I’m hiring a postdoc! Very flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone I can collaborate with on labor market inequality research. Apps due 11/1. It is based at MIT, but I’m open to remote work.
apply.interfolio.com/130576
about 2 years ago
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Guy Berger
about 2 years ago
A quick reminder that the share of prime working age Americans with a job is at a 22 year high and, with luck, we’ll set a new post-2001 record tomorrow. Only 1 percentage point from the all time high!
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Carl Gershenson
about 2 years ago
"The Americans most at risk of eviction are babies and toddlers." I'm so excited to finally see this research in print.
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/u...
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The Americans Most Threatened by Eviction: Young Children
About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at risk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/upshot/evictions-children-american-renters.html
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Kim Weeden
about 2 years ago
Newish paper with Haowen Zheng (1st author): gender differences in field of study account for about 36% of the segregation of male and female college graduates across occupations. Implies that 64% is unrelated to field, get-women-in-STEM programs not a panacea.
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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How Gender Segregation in Higher Education Contributes to Gender Segregation in the U.S. Labor Marke...
https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/60/3/761/351462/How-Gender-Segregation-in-Higher-Education
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Great new article on long-term inequality effects of RtW:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Right to Work and American Inequality - Tom VanHeuvelen, 2023
Labor historians describe Right to Work (RTW) as among the most consequential pushbacks against the early twentieth-century ascent of labor unions. Yet research...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031224231197630
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