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Nathan Wilmers

Associate Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Nathan Wilmers

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

All Academic Awards 2024 and Prior
$30,510

Between exclusion and cumulative advantage: Effects of within-organization mobility on inequality

2019
Early Career
$15,000

Unions, managers and monopolies: how concentration and managerial power contribute to rising wage inequality

2017

Nathan Wilmers’s Working Papers

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