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Paul Osterman

Paul Osterman is Nanyang Technological University Professor of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School and author of Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone.

Articles

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman, Nathan Wilmers

Today’s high unemployment isn’t a result of a lack of skilled labor but rather a slow recovery.

Paul Osterman, Andrew Weaver

Far too many American adults work in low-wage jobs. Better jobs seem the obvious solution.

Paul Osterman

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Susan Sturm and Lani Guinier are driven by a concern for continued racial and gender-based inequities and are worried that affirmative action, as we know it, is proving an inadequate solution. Rather...
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