Wages - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

workers. Immigrants who come to the country on H-1B visas are very dependent upon the firms that hire them, a situation that critics contend leads some companies to view the program as a source of cheap labor. Kerr is testing this theory by comparing View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

were given a majority of the company's stock in exchange for almost $5 billion in wage and benefit concessions. The two cases are fascinating contrasts. Scott Paper's restructuring involved large-scale job reductions, while United's gave... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are,... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and connection to living wage work opportunities, pointed him... View Details

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

of Information By: Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia Abstract—The diffusion of salary information has important implications for labor markets, such as for wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Despite the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for digital labor markets, and 3) quantification of own- and cross-country elasticities for contract work by wage rate. Digital labor markets... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

Overconfident subjects also persist in making the mistake despite clear feedback. These results suggest non-linear pay schemes may help companies select and retain overconfident workers and may reduce the wage bill. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2024
News

Conducting Business

count up my profits every day, and there’s always cash in the cigar box.” The owner’s loan application was attached to the case as Exhibit 1. Some other financial data showed what rents cost for comparable shop fronts and typical hourly View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

there’s a role that employers can play by adding just a little bit more information, for example, to their quarterly wage reporting, like adding a title or occupation for all the folks who they are already reporting View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the... View Details

30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We further show that diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

16 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

“occupational sorting,” with men choosing careers that pay higher wages than women do, labor economists say. For example, women represent only 26 percent of US workers employed in computer and math jobs, according to the Department of... View Details

31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

although they received significantly lower levels of labor income than their native born counterparts. Overall, the contribution of foreign born inventors to U.S. innovation was substantial, but we also find evidence of an immigrant inventor View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

corridors and lobbies). As offices get smaller, a number like 250 square feet per person is becoming more typical. From a salary point of view, in Massachusetts, the gross wages for job titles like advertising sales agent, tax preparer,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

expanding into high-wage economies in Europe and North America; (2) the company was expanding its presence in China—a country where front-line employees were not used to exercising decision-making authority; and (3) newcomers in the Chinese hotel market were poaching... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2017
Case

Pho Hoa Dorchester

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu

Pho Hoa is a traditional, family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts that opened in 1992. As he approached retirement in recent years, the founder/owner has scaled down his involvement in the day-to-day operations, leading to a number of... View Details

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01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

look at the statistics, real wage growth among working-class Americans has been relatively stagnant,” said Kaplan. Meanwhile, “the cost of everything a middle-class family pays for — food, energy, education, and health care — has gone... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just beneath them. Using survey data, we show that individuals making... View Details