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Organized Labor, Labor Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Sabien Dobbelaere, Boris Hirsch, Steffen Mueller, Georg Neuschaeffer
This article examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils relate to labor market imperfections and how labor market imperfections relate to employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999–2016, the authors document that 70% of employers pay wages below the marginal revenue product of labor and 30% pay wages
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Book Review: Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City, by Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Andrew B. Wolf
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Book Review: Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Is Bad for Business and Employees By Peter Cappelli ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Paul Osterman
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Triadic Technology Configuration: A Relational Perspective on Technologists’ Role in Shaping Cloud-Based Technologies ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jenna E. Myers
Through an ethnographic study of a manufacturing monitoring technology, the author examines how the relations among workers, managers, and third-party technologists impact the ongoing configuration of cloud-based workplace technologies. Because these technologies are broadly networked, data-driven, and highly malleable, the author argues that technologists have an increasingly prominent role. By tracing
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Book Review: Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee, by Crystal Mary Moten ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Deepa Kylasam Iyer
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Book Review: Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization, by Sarrah Kassem ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Stephen J. Frenkel
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European Social Dialogues: Shaping EU Social Policy through Parental Leave Rights ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Zhen Jie Im, Trine Pernille Larsen, Brigitte Pircher
The European Social Dialogue (ESD) has served as the platform for European social partners to negotiate parental leave policies at the European Union (EU) level since 1995. The partners’ efforts to revise the regulations in 2015, in response to the European Commission’s broader approach toward European work–life balance policies, failed, however, and the reasons for and implications of this failure
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The Independent Contractor Workforce: New Evidence on Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Katharine G. Abraham, Brad Hershbein, Susan N. Houseman, Beth C. Truesdale
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working
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Effects of Workplace Competition on Work Time and Gender Inequality ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Amalia R. Miller, Ragan Petrie, Carmit Segal
High-pay, high-status jobs are competitive and male-dominated and typically demand long work hours. The authors study the role of competition in producing the latter two outcomes using two field experiments. In the first, they find that paying tournament prizes for performance induces both men and women to work longer, but that men respond more than women to the high-prize tournament. In the second
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Evidence on the Relationship between Pension-Driven Financial Incentives and Late-Career Attrition: Implications for Pension Reform ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Dan Goldhaber, Cyrus Grout, Kristian L. Holden, Josh B. McGee
Retirement plans can create strong financial incentives that have important labor market implications, and many states have adopted alternative plan designs that significantly change these incentives. The authors use longitudinal data to investigate the impact of Washington State’s 1996 introduction of a hybrid retirement plan on late-career attrition. The unique setup of Washington’s plans allows
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Group-Based Incentives and Individual Performance: A Study of the Effort Response ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Anders Frederiksen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt Hansen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Group-based incentives are attractive in contexts where production is interdependent. Prior work shows such incentives increase group performance despite freeriding concerns, yet little is known about the effort response of individuals. Using individual-level data, the authors assess the introduction of group-based performance pay using difference-in-difference estimation. Overall, performance increased
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Employer Discretion: The Role of Collective Agreements in the Liberalization of Industrial Relations ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Saskia Boumans
The gradual shift in power relations between organized employers and employees since the 1970s has increasingly affected the functioning of national industrial relations systems. According to a broad literature, the most important of these consequences is an increase in employer discretion. This article tests this claim by performing a longitudinal content analysis on three Dutch collective contracts
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Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Matt Buehler, Kristin E. Fabbe, Eleni Kyrkopoulou
Morocco, once primarily known as a country of emigration and transit to Europe, has become a destination country for migrants, the majority of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original na...
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Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih, Chad Sparber
The H-1B visa program allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers. Before 2014, the vast majority of these visas were allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Since then, the program has ...
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Task Content and Job Losses in the Great Lockdown ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Filippos Petroulakis
The author examines the short-term labor market effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (aka the Great Lockdown recession) in the United States. Findings show that the task content is an important predict...
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Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change: Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Jens Arnholtz, Chris F. Wright
In this article, the authors examine the role of labor immigration as a source of institutional change. They use a “most different systems” comparative case study analysis of the Danish and Austral...
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When the Tasks Line Up: How the Nature of Supplementary Tasks Affects Worker Productivity ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Aruna Ranganathan
Jobs consist of bundles of tasks, with most jobs involving one or a few core tasks as well as supplementary tasks. In this article, the author argues that, keeping constant the number of supplement...
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Working from Home and Worker Well-being: New Evidence from Germany ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Duanyi Yang, Erin L. Kelly, Laura D. Kubzansky, Lisa Berkman
The COVID-19 pandemic piqued interest in remote work, but research yields mixed findings on the impact of working from home on workers’ well-being and job attitudes. The authors develop a conceptua...
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Assessing the Labor Conditions of Migrant Domestic Workers in the Arab Gulf States ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Lisa Blaydes
Millions of migrant domestic workers—the vast majority of whom are women—are employed in households across Arab Gulf societies. Despite the ubiquitous presence of these foreign workers in Gulf hous...
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Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Saerom Han
Drawing on a qualitative analysis of a group of mobilized precarious workers in Tunisia’s public sector, the author asks how workers’ collective actions are shaped by and, at the same time, can act...
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Conflicting Imperatives? Ethnonationalism and Neoliberalism in Industrial Relations ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Jonathan Preminger, Assaf S. Bondy
Based on a case study of non-citizen Palestinian workers in the Israeli construction sector, this article explores the dynamic relationship between the exclusionary imperative of ethnonationalism a...
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Socioeconomic Status and the Changing Nature of School-to-Work Transitions in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Colette Salemi
The Middle East and North Africa region struggled to meet the employment aspirations of its increasingly educated youth in the aftermath of structural reforms. This article examines the evolution o...
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The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 John Chung, Yong Suk Lee
The authors examine the impact of industrial robots on US labor markets between 2005 and 2016. Because some industries adopt robots more intensively, growth in robot stocks more heavily affect loca...
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Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner
This article estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across the US private sector since 2000. The authors distinguish between concentration in local labor markets a...
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Effects of New Technologies on Work: The Case of Additive Manufacturing ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Avner Ben-Ner, Ainhoa Urtasun, Bledi Taska
The authors study the effects on work of additive manufacturing (AM), an emerging technology that may replace significant segments of traditional manufacturing (TM). Compared to TM, AM is more inte...
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Contract Employment: Measurement and Implications for Employer–Employee Relationships ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Paul Osterman
This article utilizes a new nationally representative survey, executed in January 2020, that measures non-standard work. The author estimates the incidence of contract company employment and freela...
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Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work: Evidence from California Tax Data ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Annette Bernhardt, Christopher Campos, Allen Prohofsky, Aparna Ramesh, Jesse Rothstein
The authors use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of independent contracting and self-employment in California. They identify this w...
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The Data-Driven Workplace and the Case for Worker Technology Rights ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Annette Bernhardt, Lisa Kresge, Reem Suleiman
Employers increasingly use digital technologies in the workplace to capture and analyze worker data, electronically monitor their workers, and manage them using algorithms. In this article, the aut...
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The Cumulative Advantage of a Unionized Career for Lifetime Earnings ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Zachary Parolin, Tom VanHeuvelen
Studies on labor union earnings premiums generally investigate their size through point-in-time estimates. This study posits, by contrast, that point-in-time estimates of the union premium overlook...
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What Are the Consequences of Right-to-Work for Union Membership? ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Kevin J. Murphy
Beginning in 2012, several states enacted right-to-work laws, which hamper the ability of labor unions to collect agency fees to finance union services and activities. Because the processes by whic...
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ILR Review at 75: Editorial Changes and the Launch of “Novel Technologies at Work” ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Rosemary Batt, Lawrence Kahn
As we come to the close of the 75th Anniversary of the ILR Review, we want to thank all of our contributors for making the journal a leading source of groundbreaking research on labor economics and employment relations. We also want to announce some editorial transitions. Rosemary Batt is stepping down as co-editor, and Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University, joins the team as her replacement. Laura
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A Forum on the Politics of Skills ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Paul Osterman, Nichola Lowe, Bridget Anderson, Joe William Trotter, Jr., Natasha Iskander, Rina Agarwala
The ILR Review invited this group of scholars who work within the fields of sociology, history, and urban planning to share their perspective on the politics of skills. We called on their expertise...
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Employer Wage Subsidy Caps and Part-Time Work ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Joel A. Elvery, C. Lockwood Reynolds, Shawn M. Rohlin
Using tract-level US Census data and triple-difference estimators, the authors test whether firms increase their use of part-time workers when faced with capped wage subsidies. By limiting the maximum subsidy per worker, such subsidies create incentives for firms to increase the share of their payroll that is eligible for the subsidy by increasing use of part-time or low-wage workers. Results suggest
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Decomposing the Decline of Unions: Revisiting Sectoral and Regional Shifts ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Zachary Schaller
This study uses newly disaggregated National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data to revisit the theory that sectoral and regional shifts in economic activity contributed substantially to private-sector union decline in the United States. Unlike most studies, which focus on differential employment growth among union and non-union establishments, this article focuses on how such shifts may have
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A Forum on Emerging Technologies ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Adam Seth Litwin, Jessie HF Hammerling, Françoise Carré, Chris Tilly, Chris Benner, Sarah Mason, Steve Viscelli, Beth Gutelius, Nik Theodore
As part of ILR Review’s new special series “Novel Technologies at Work,” this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies
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Schooling and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures in the United States ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Miriam Marcén, Marina Morales, Almudena Sevilla
This article examines changes in parental labor supply in response to the unanticipated closure of schools following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which they merge to individual-level data on labor supply and sociodemographic characteristics from the monthly Current Population
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Brokered Careers: The Role of Search Firms in Managerial Career Mobility ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Matthew Bidwell, Kira Choi, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
The authors explore how career paths are shaped by the involvement of search firms in hiring. Drawing on theories of market intermediation, they argue that search firms constrain horizontal moves across functions and industries by favoring workers from within the same function and industry as the role being filled. Using survey data on 1,342 job moves undertaken by 816 MBA alumni, the authors find
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Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap: The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Jiang Li, Benoit Dostie, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain
Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, the authors examine the impact of firms’ hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following Card, Cardoso, and Kline (2016), findings show that firm-specific premiums explain nearly one-quarter of the 26.8% average earnings gap between female
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Gender Inequality, Bargaining, and Pay in Care Services in the United States ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Nancy Folbre, Leila Gautham, Kristin Smith
The authors argue that paid providers of care services in the United States (in health, education, and social service industries) are less able than providers of business services to capture value-added or to extract rents because limited consumer sovereignty, incomplete information regarding quality, and large positive externalities reduce their relative market power. In addition, many care jobs enforce
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Book Review: Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation: The Political Economy of Training and Employment in Auto Parts Suppliers from Mexico and Turkey, by Merve Sancak ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Stephen J. Frenkel
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys: Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Robert Kaestner, Ofer Malamud
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong behavior and for men who exhibited more dependent behavior as children. By contrast, the authors observe
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Reply to “Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working” by William A. Darity Jr. et al. ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Daniel S. Hamermesh,Katie R. Genadek,Michael C. Burda
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Book Review: Automation Anxiety: Why and How to Save Work, by Cynthia Estlund ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Trevor Brown
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Book Review: Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States, by David Madland ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Jeonghun Kim
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Book Review: You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy, by Jake Rosenfeld ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Patrick McGovern
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Book Review: Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism, by Julieta Haidar and Maarten Keune ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Valeria Pulignano
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Book Review: Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future, by Tobias Schulze-Cleven and Todd E. Vachon ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Inez v. Weitershausen
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Emerging Technologies at Work: Policy Ideas to Address Negative Consequences for Work, Workers, and Society ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Diane E. Bailey
Emerging technologies such as sensors, drones, robots, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality increasingly operate as interlinked components in large technological suites that carry out novel functions. In this article, the author outlines potential negative consequences for work, workers, and society that use of these emerging technologies pose and offers policy ideas for
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Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Kim de Laat
In-depth interviews with IT employees (N = 84) working under two types of work design—a post-bureaucratic work design labeled “agile,” and a bureaucratic work design labeled “waterfall”—are used to examine gendered patterns in the adoption of remote work. Interviews reveal an unintended consequence of the agile model: It promotes a physical orientation that induces on-site work. Agile is gender-inegalitarian
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Heterogeneous Labor Market Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Guido Matias Cortes, Eliza Forsythe
The authors study the distributional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on employment, both during the onset of the pandemic and over subsequent months. Using cross-sectional and matched longitudinal data from the Current Population Survey, they show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially
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Book Review: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, by Aliya Hamid Rao ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Jaclyn S. Wong
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New Evidence on Teacher Pay ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Krishna Regmi
Prior research has shown that teachers receive lower pay compared to people with the same educational level who work in other occupations. This article challenges that literature and shows that by applying novel statistical approaches, the pay differentials are reduced, and even become pay premiums. In particular, these approaches provide unifying estimates that turn an earnings penalty between female
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What Does Codetermination Do? ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Simon Jäger, Shakked Noy, Benjamin Schoefer
The authors provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, that is, worker representation in firms’ governance and management. The available micro evidence points to zero or small positive effects of codetermination on worker and firm outcomes and leaves room for moderate positive effects on productivity, wages, and job stability. The authors also present new country-level, general-equilibrium
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Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 William A. Darity, Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Gregory N. Price, Man Xu
Racial differences in effort at work, if they exist, can potentially explain race-based wage/earnings disparities in the labor market. The authors estimate specifications of time spent on non-work activities at work by Black and White males and females with data from the American Time Use Survey. Estimates reveal that trivially small differences occur between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White
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Persistent Unpredictability: Analyzing Experiences with the First Statewide Scheduling Legislation in Oregon ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Larissa Petrucci, Lola Loustaunau, Ellen Scott, Lina Stepick
Based on 98 in-depth interviews with workers and managers, the authors analyze the effectiveness of Oregon’s Fair Workweek Act, the first statewide scheduling legislation. Overall, findings show limited evidence of the law’s efficacy to improve workers’ schedules. The authors discuss three factors that are likely to explain this shortcoming: lack of adequate funding for education about the law and
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Book Review: Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia, by Arne L. Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison, and Kwang-Yeong Shin ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Yooseop Chun
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Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the US Service Sector ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Joshua Choper, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett
The authors develop a model of cumulative disadvantage relating three axes of disadvantage for hourly workers in the US retail and food service sectors: schedule instability, turnover, and earnings. In this model, exposure to unstable work schedules disrupts workers’ family and economic lives, straining the employment relation and increasing the likelihood of turnover, which can then lead to earnings
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Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang
The recent dramatic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants in the United States in the past two decades is a puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnant growth or even decline among other demographic groups. The authors propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a characteristic of the US immigration policy during that time span, contributed to this unique trend
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Book Review: Arise: Power, Strategy, and Union Resurgence, by Jane Holgate ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Maite Tapia
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Inside Jobs: Salary Setting for Immigrants Crossing Establishment, Organizational, and National Boundaries ILR Review (IF 3.573) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Ben A. Rissing, Kwan Lee
Using novel US Department of Labor administrative records, the authors test theoretical mechanisms to account for variation in immigrant workers’ starting salaries following key career transitions. Specifically, they examine differences in the base starting salaries and discretionary starting salary increases above these base starting salaries for 1) same-establishment hires, relative to 2) US-based