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The ILR Review features international and interdisciplinary research that advances new theory, presents novel empirical work, and informs organizational and public policy.
Can minimum wage policy reduce wage inequality? New in ILR Review: Francine D. Blau, Isaac Cohen, Matthew Comey, Lawrence M. Kahn, and Nikolai Boboshko examine four decades of U.S. labor market data. 📖 doi.org/10.1177/0019... #MinimumWage #WageInequality
How can #LaborGovernance build worker power—not just rules on paper? New #ILRReview research by Mark Anner (Rutgers) and Diego Bautista Páez (El Colegio Mexiquense) examines workers in Honduras and Mexico and how enforcement can strengthen #CollectiveBargaining. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Why do we tip, and how much? Service quality explains only 5% of variation in tip amounts. What explains the rest? Michael C. Sturman of Rutgets University School of Management and Labor Relations reviews Michael Lynn’s The Psychology of Tipping. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
📚 Read Dongwoo Park's review of Abe Walker’s Reassembling the UAW, which shows how bottom-up #organizing and union democracy helped #UAW turn two Chattanooga defeats into a 73% victory. doi.org/10.1177/0019.... Dr. Park is a postdoc at Colombia University.
New research published in our current issue by Mario Bossler and Martin Popp shows that #labor #market tightness signaled by high #hiring costs reduces demand for new hires in organizations as well as overall #employment. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/0019...
📢New research by Adrianto Adrianto, Avner Ben-Ner, Jason Sockin @cornellilr.bsky.social and Ainhoa Urtasun shows that #employee ownership of their companies along with culture and work-life balance improves #job satisfaction. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/0019...
📚Read Heather Connolly's review of the edited volume @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social by Andy Hodder and Miguel Martínez Lucio that shows how specialist representation is a reflection of wider transformations in the politics of #work and #employment. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/0019...
New research by Shailee Manandhar and Douglas Kruse @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social along with Roisin O’Neill #StocktonUniversity shows that #unemployment #insurance plays an important role in maintaining the health and #job readiness of #workers with #disabilities. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
How do global #union officials work? Huw Thomas @ucddublin.bsky.social and Peter Turnbull @bristoluni.bsky.social identify four distinct but interacting roles—#activist, #bureaucrat, #diplomat, and technocrat—that officials exercise with different stakeholders. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
New research by Alex Kowalski @cornellilr.bsky.social and coauthors shows that #job quality and #worker well-being are lower in #warehouses engaged in #ecommerce and are most pronounced at #Amazon’s warehouses, which emphasize speedy delivery. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
How does #intersectional organizing work? Drawing on interviews with @sbworkersunited.org, Johnnie Kallas #UIUC finds that #workers leveraged management’s virtue signaling, #progressive brand image and their lived experiences to access rights. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Does participation in #surveys affect #labor #market outcomes? New research by Gesine Stephan #FAU_Germany and coauthors show that on average, survey participation had no effect on labor market outcomes during the year after signing up. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Why do we see gendered differences in reservation #wages? Gokce Basbug @DUBusSchool and Roberto M. Fernandez @MITSloan show that #women and #men search for different #occupations, with women opting for jobs with less working hours. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
What does it take to ensure #minimum #wage compliance from the #employers? New research by @annastansbury.bsky.social @mitsloan.bsky.social shows that improved #enforcement and expected #penalties both matter for firms to comply. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
#Employers prioritize specific types of #work #visa. Ben Rissing @cornellilr.bsky.social and Laura Carver @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social show how #immigrant human capital, employers’ past filing experience, and its relative dissimilarity to the present one matter. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
A new study of the 2019 #UAW #GM #strike by Maite Tapia @michiganstateu.bsky.social and coauthors shows how member satisfaction, local context, and even “invisible divides” like transfer worker shares can shape whether #workers back #leadership’s #strategy. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Fascinating study by Ilpo Kauppinen #VATTresearch and Panu Poutvaara #TU_Muenchen on who leaves #Finland. #Emigrants are higher #educated, higher #earning and in top #jobs. #Swedish speaking Finns are far more likely to head to other #Nordic countries. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
#Mexican #Americans were often recorded as “white” in the 1930 Census, masking their true numbers and socioeconomic progress. New research by Brian Duncan #CUDenver and Stephen Trejo #UTAustin shows how different local environments supported integration. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Turns out the 4‑day #workweek isn’t a fringe experiment, say Daniel Hamermesh @utaustin.bsky.social and Jeff Biddle @notredame.bsky.social. It has tripled since 1973, adding 7M #US workers. #Workers’ preferences, not #industry changes, are reshaping the week. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
@davidautor.bsky.social @mit.edu and coauthors show that #immigration played only a small role in helping #US regions adjust to #China shock in #manufacturing. Immigrants were not positioned in the #industries that collapsed, so their #mobility offered limited relief. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
@jimbostanford.bsky.social @cntrfuturework-cda.bsky.social reviews the new book @brisunipress.bsky.social by Bradon Ellem & coauthors that distills 120 years of policy evolution into an accessible primer on how #Australia regulates #work & where reform may head next. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
New research by Carlotta Rigotti and coauthors examines the #EU’s #AI Act and shows how risk‑based rules and #rights impact assessments. They also demonstrate how real #stakeholder involvement can turn #compliance into true #accountability. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
The 2021–24 #union uptick was led by #young #workers. @ericblanc.bsky.social @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social shows how #organizing youth‑heavy industries, bottom‑up #campaigns, #digital tools, militant #minority #leadership, and the spread of worker‑to‑worker action helped. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
🆕Read Lucia Amorosi's #scuolanormale review of @emmaamador.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social new book @dukepress.bsky.social that spotlights #PuertoRican #women whose #socialwork #activism reshaped struggles for #justice. Vivid #biographies make this #history feel urgent today. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
New research by Garrett Anstreicher #UNLincoln and Lois Miller #UoSC shows that the biggest long‑term losses during the #greatrecession were concentrated among #grads from good #colleges, a reminder that even elite pathways aren’t recession proof. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Explore Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld's review of the new book by Russell Lansbury and Marian Baird that uses evidence from #Australia and #Sweden to argue for #socialsecurity, #health & #community for #retirees. Essential reading for the future of work. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Revisiting the Hamermesh, Genadek, and Burda study (2021), William A. Darity, Jr. @duke-university.bsky.social and coauthors' rejoinder to their original critique defend the decomposition tools that show how time‑use differences do not drive #racial #earnings gaps . doi.org/10.1177/0019...
🚨New: Read Stephen Frenkel's review of Anna-Lena Wolf's #unibern new book #ILRpress that uses an #ethnographic lens to show how tea #plantation #workers, #managers and companies think about justice and transgression in the global supply chain. doi.org/10.1177/0019...