Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, February 1st at 11 for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Paul Osterman.
Osterman holds a joint Ph.D. from MIT in Economics and Urban Studies and Planning. He currently has appointments at Nanyang Technical University and MIT Sloan School of Management as Professor of Human Resources and Management and at MIT as Professor of Urban Studies and Planning. Osterman is a former Deputy Dean at MIT Sloan (2003-2007). The main focus of his research concerns changes in work organizations within companies, career patterns and processes within firms, economic development, urban poverty, and public policy surrounding skills training and employment programs. He has produced over a dozen titles on economics and human resources. Two of his most recent works are (ed.) Creating Good Jobs: An Industry Strategy (MIT Press, 2020) Publisher’s link and Who Will Care for Us: Long Term Care and the Long Term Care Workforce (Russell Sage, 2017). Publisher’s link.
While at RSF Osterman will work on a book examining the emerging nature of the employment relationship and what kinds of policies are appropriate for people whose economic outcomes are put at risk by these developments. He will focus on occupations which are being “cut-loose” from traditional employment relationships. This growing trend includes the rise of freelancing and contract work, but is broader and more complex that these two categories.