New Harvard Business Review article from Tom Kochan of @mitiwer.bsky.social@ucsandiego.bsky.socialhbr.org/2024/10/what...

What It Takes to Form a Union — and Where to Begin

If you’re interested in forming a union, but unsure of what to expect, you’re not alone. Under the current American system for union recognition, unionizing is an arduous process and comes with some r...

Interesting observation by MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Tom Kochan of @mitiwer.bsky.socialtinyurl.com/36y2e92f

Dockworkers' union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract​

Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike that could have caused shortages and higher prices if it had dragged on....

Several news articles this week re: California's decision to ban legacy admissions at private colleges cite research by Emilio Castilla @mitiwer.bsky.social@mitsloanalumni.bsky.socialtinyurl.com/423j2det

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Colleges

California has become the fourth state to ban legacy admissions at private colleges, a practice that mostly benefits rich kids

Great new evidence on heat pumps !

RMrmetcalfe.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 12:56pm

Very excited to release this paper today. By using a staggered roll-out of heat pumps in the UK, we find that: 1. Heat pumps reduce households’ total energy use by a whopping 40%, and carbon emissions by 36%, evidencing the real-world impact of their superior efficiency over gas boilers.

Great summary from John Burn Murdoch of the growing gender gap in outcomes for young people - with women much more likely to go to college, and increasingly more likely to be employed Strikingly in the UK young non college women also now earn more than young non college men

New Harvard Business Review article quotes @elkelly.bsky.social@mitiwer.bsky.social#overloadtinyurl.com/2jdwxu38

Ethical CEOs should care about labor law enforcement --- my new op ed in The Hill: "Unscrupulous firms that break the law undermine the businesses that want to be ethical, and this puts the principled businesses at risk of being out-competed" thehill.com/opinion/fina...

Why CEOs should want better enforcement of labor law

Right now, penalties are often so low that a simple cost-benefit calculation, absent ethical considerations, would tell many firms to break the law.

“When people steal from companies, they pay a heavy price. When companies steal from their workers, they don’t.”-- @annastansbury.bsky.social@mitiwer.bsky.socialtinyurl.com/4y44v9pa

Why CEOs should want better enforcement of labor law

Right now, penalties are often so low that a simple cost-benefit calculation, absent ethical considerations, would tell many firms to break the law.

New article in The Hill by @annastansbury.bsky.social@mitiwer.bsky.socialtinyurl.com/4y44v9pa

Why CEOs should want better enforcement of labor law

Right now, penalties are often so low that a simple cost-benefit calculation, absent ethical considerations, would tell many firms to break the law.

Great to chat with Nick and Goldy on Pitchfork Economics podcast about economics’ socioeconomic diversity problem I strongly believe that this means we miss important perspectives and get things wrong in our research. But I’m hoping to test this in data - Watch this space…. bit.ly/AnnaStansbury

Economics Needs More Socioeconomic Diversity (with Anna Stansbury)

This week, Nick and Goldy are joined by MIT economist Anna Stansbury to discuss the troubling lack of socioeconomic diversity within the economics profession. Stansbury discusses her research from a p...