Nathan Wilmers
Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor and Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chapter Member: Boston SSN
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About Nathan
Wilmers studies the causes and consequences of rising U.S. income inequality. By using the tools of economic sociology; his ongoing research links big changes in the U.S. economy and U.S. economic policy to rising wage inequality. Prior to graduate school; he worked on labor issues at the National Labor Relations Board and as a research analyst at the AFL-CIO.
Contributions
Does Union Activism Actually Raise Wages?
Key Findings Brief,
No Jargon Podcast
In the News
Research discussed by , in "How Poor Americans Get Exploited by Their Landlords," CityLab, March 21, 2019.
Publications
"Can High Income Consumers Increase Within-Industry Wage Inequality?", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, July 2014.
Explores the ways in which the disproportionate growth of high-income consumers has meant that the U.S. economy caters increasingly to the preferences of elite spenders, and what this implies for the future of workers and industry.