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What happens to hiring when workers become harder to find? Mario Bossler (@NurembergTech) & Martin Popp (@iab_news) examine how tight labor markets, recruitment costs & worker reallocation shape firms’ labor demand in Germany. 📖 Read lnkd.in/giZQtrGz #ILRReview
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What happens when racial myths about “laziness” are given an economic explanation? A new #ILRReview by Darity, Jr., Durfee, Hamilton, L. Myers, Jr., N. Price, and Xu revisits race, work effort, and wage inequality. Read: doi.org/10.1177/001979392614… #ILRReview #LaborEconomics
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John Kallas, Assistant Professor at @IllinoisLER, examines how LGBTQIA+ Starbucks workers turned identity, lived experience, and shared workplace concerns into #union power. Based on 53 interviews. Read: lnkd.in/eh2MqiRV #LaborMovement #StarbucksWorkersUnited
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What actually helps workers recover after losing a job? JensStegmaier & Richard Upward take on the question in a new @ILRReview study of Germany’s transfer companies. Safety net or helping hand? doi.org/10.1177/001979392614… #LaborEconomics #JobDisplacement
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Young workers aren’t waiting for the future of labor. They’re organizing it. New in ILR Review: @_ericblanc (Rutgers) examines the 2021–2024 union uptick and what’s driving young-worker organizing. Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Back to campus 🎓 What happens when you graduate into a recession? Anstreicher (Nebraska–Lincoln) & Lois Miller (South Carolina) explore how college quality shapes recession scarring in #ILRReview. 🔓 August issue is #OpenAccess: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ilr…
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Read the latest issue of ILR Review free unitl Sep 12! 📚Vol 79, Issue 4 features new research on work, employment, labor markets, and industrial relations from scholars across the field. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ilr… #ILRReview #Work journals.sagepub.com/toc/ilr…
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How can #LaborGovernance build worker power? New #ILRReview research by Rutgers’ Mark Anner and El Colegio Mexiquense’s Diego Bautista Páez examines workers in Honduras and Mexico—and how enforcement can strengthen #CollectiveBargaining. doi.org/10.1177/001979392614…
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Why do we tip, and what determines how much? Service quality explains only about 5% of differences in tip amounts. What explains the rest? @RU_SMLR’s Michael C. Sturman reviews Michael Lynn’s The Psychology of Tipping. doi.org/10.1177/001979392614… #Tipping
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📚 Read @Columbia scholar Dongwoo Park’s review of Abe Walker’s Reassembling the UAW. It shows how organizing and union democracy helped @UAW turn two Chattanooga defeats into a 73% victory. doi.org/10.1177/001979392614… #UnionOrganizing #Labor
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New in ILR Review: @ColinMang @McMasterU & Amar Anwar @cbuniversity finds working from home #WFH has a modest positive effect on employee productivity. Meta-analysis: 82 studies/3,574 estimates. Effects vary by #hybrid #remote #workstatus & #region. doi.org/10.1177/001979392614…
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New research published in our current issue by Mario Bossler @utn_nuremberg 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.cornel…
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🚨 New research by Adrianto Adrianto, Avner Ben-Ner @UMNews, Jason Sockin @Cornellilr and Ainhoa Urtasun @UNavarra shows that #employee ownership of their companies along with culture and work-life balance improves #job satisfaction. doi-org.proxy.library.cornel…
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📚Read @DrHMConnolly's review of the edited volume @EmeraldGlobal 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.cornel…
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New research by Shailee Manandhar and Douglas Kruse @RutgersU along with Roisin O’Neill @Stockton_edu shows that #unemployment #insurance plays an important role in maintaining the health and #job readiness of #workers with #disabilities. doi.org/10.1177/001979392614…
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How do global #union officials work? Huw Thomas @ucddublin and Peter Turnbull @BristolUni_BSch identify four distinct but interacting roles—#activist, #bureaucrat, #diplomat, and technocrat—that officials exercise with different stakeholders. doi.org/10.1177/001979392614…
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New research by @am_kowalski @cornellilr 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/10.1177/001979392614…
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How does #intersectional organizing work? Drawing on interviews with @SBWorkersUnited, Johnnie Kallas @UofIllinois finds that #workers leveraged management’s virtue signaling, #progressive brand image and their lived experiences to access rights. doi.org/10.1177/001979392614…
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