$30,510
Between exclusion and cumulative advantage: Effects of within-organization mobility on inequality
2019
Grantees: Nathan Wilmers (opens in a new tab)
Nathan Wilmers is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on wage and earnings inequality, economic sociology, and the sociology of labor. In his current research, he studies how shifting relations between companies affect wage inequality and earnings growth.
His research appears in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces, and has been covered in various media outlets. Wilmers holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.
Funded Research
$15,000
Unions, managers and monopolies: how concentration and managerial power contribute to rising wage inequality
2017
Grantees: Nathan Wilmers (opens in a new tab)
Authored by Nathan Wilmers
Policy
The alignment of earnings in occupations and at U.S. workplaces increasingly exacerbates earnings inequality (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAR 9, 2021
By: Nathan Wilmers, Clem Aeppli
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
The links between stagnating wages and buyer power in U.S. supply chains (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAY 22, 2018
By: Nathan Wilmers
Competition & Economic Dynamism
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Nathan Wilmers’s Working Papers
Academic
Consolidated Advantage: New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAR 9, 2021
By: Nathan Wilmers, Clem Aeppli
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
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