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WorklifeWizard.orgFuture Research
Isabelle Ferreras [email protected] Jason [email protected]
All About the WorklifeWizard Who We Are
A project of the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp Harvard Trade Union Program Pension Research and Reform Labor Economics and
Employment and Labor Law Research
A Team of Social Scientists
All About the WorklifeWizard Our Team
Dr. Richard Freeman - WorklifeWizard Research Director PhD Economics, Harvard Professor of Economics at Harvard University & Faculty
Co-Chair, Labor and Worklife Program Harvard Trade Union Program
Dr. Isabelle Ferreras- WorklifeWizard Research Coordinator PhD Sociology, University of Louvain, MA Political
Science, MIT. Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program
Jason Anastasopoulos AM Statistics, Harvard Web and Publications Coordinator, Labor and Worklife
Program
ContextKnowledge About Worklife In the US
Data on work and employment in the US is “incomplete” Employment v. Work
Focus on “quantitative” aspects of the American workforce: wages, employment rates, etc.
Lack of “qualitiative” information What is the experience of
American workers?
ContextKnowledge About Worklife In the US
American Data Collection Institutions US Census Bureau: www.census.gov Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
The source for data on the American workforce.
Over 30,000 articles using BLS data (using Google Scholar).
Major surveys are the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Occupational and Employment Survey.
ContextKnowledge About Worklife In the US
Current Population Survey (CPS) Deals with employment and unemployment
across many dimensions – race, sex, marital status, occupation, industry, etc…)
Occupational and Employment Survey Data forms the basis of our salary checker. Offers detailed information about wages by
state.
ContextKnowledge About Worklife in the US
Where the Worklife Wizard Comes In Ask more questions about work life
rather than just employment. Employee involvement in the
workplace Gender and power issues Employee-management relations
Work life issues not systematically covered
ContextA Permanent Research Tool
The Google of work life A resource for researchers,
academics and labor Answers to social, political and
economic questions relating to work
Making it happen
Structure and MethodsThe Survey
Core Survey About 40-50 questions Similar to all other
WageIndicator Survey Questions
Contains several Current Population Survey questions for statistical purposes.
Structure and MethodsThe Survey
Special Research Modules (SRM’s) Def. – A set of roughly 10-30
questions unified by a common theme Gender Customer-worker relations Shared capitalism
Unlike any questions asked by major American data collection institutions.
Structure and MethodsThe Survey
Special Research Modules (SRM’s) Mechanics
Rotation Question Submission & Data
Collection
Structure and MethodsMethodology
Internet Surveys Problems with non-random
sampling Solutions
Advertising and promotion Data Comparisons –Current
Population Survey questions in the core
An Information Resource
WorklifeWizard Observatory An observatory of work life A source for information about
virtually all work related issues Workers rights Labor and employment law Job tips and advice A permanent blog index Work life news, labor news, top news
stories, worklife books and more!
Future Collaborations
Currently working with Monster.com, Business Week & several US labor unions
Partnership program New collaborations with
American researchers
CONTACT US!
Isabelle Ferreras
Research Coordinator
Jason Anastasopoulos
Web manager