Research

An ILR School research team found that having either the same gender or the same nationality as an opponent leads to greater perceptions of rivalry and subsequent better effort-based performance.

Prioritizing unique and more educated applicants for temporary work visas, employers play a central but understudied role in the U.S. immigration bureaucracy, with implications for careers and American innovation, according to new research by Ben Rissing.

Men are associated with control over people and resources, and women are aligned with respect and admiration, according to new Cornell research by Charlotte Townsend.

Cornell Human Resources plans to roll out a pilot of Restorative Records, an online tool where job applicants with criminal records can provide context about their past and details about their rehabilitation.

Parents can positively influence a child’s health without imposing lots of food they don’t like, says Professor Michèle Belot, whose new research tracked 300 lower-income families in the U.K. over three years.

Rosemary Batt ’73, the Alice Cook Professor of Women and Work, has co-authored a policy brief suggesting that U.S. policymakers and regulators rethink the way government finances are allotted to health care facilities.

Drawing on expertise, research-based data and policy analysis on a range of issues affecting the state’s workers, unions, communities and employers, the fourth annual New York at Work report is intended to serve as an informative, accessible and relevant resource for policymakers and the public.

Organizations using AI to monitor employees’ behavior and productivity can expect them to complain more, be less productive and want to quit more – unless the technology can be framed as supporting their development, ILR research finds.

Home health aides (HHAs) are vulnerable to stress, isolation and depressive symptoms, which impact their own health as well as their patients’ desire to age in place, according to new research co-authored by Professor Ariel Avgar.

The number of New York households with high-speed internet has increased, but much of that comes exclusively from cellular plans, which could mean that as many as 1.5 million households remain “underconnected,” according to new research from Russell Weaver.

Enrolling in a selective college STEM program pays off more for academically marginal students – even though they are less likely to graduate, according to new research from Assistant Professor Evan Riehl.

Being asked to provide demographic information in official forms such as job applications – but finding one’s own identity group missing from demographic options provided – can signal a low likelihood of belonging in a given setting and trigger anger, according to new Cornell research. 

On April 26, Cornell’s Climate Jobs Institute released “Exploring the Conditions of the New York Solar Workforce,” which surveyed more than 260 solar installation and maintenance workers findings reveal that New York solar construction workers are transient, may not receive benefits, and are subject to racial disparities in pay.

Raising New York state’s minimum hourly wage to $21.25, as proposed in the NYS Raise the Wage Act currently before the state Legislature, would help nearly two-thirds of workers earn a living wage, according to data from the Cornell ILR Wage Atlas.

“The Status of Child Care in New York State,” a new report released by the Buffalo Co-Lab, finds that recent increases in state subsidies helped stabilize the industry through the pandemic, but were insufficient to reduce inequities in access and quality.

More than 90% of searches conducted by police in the United States are based on individual consent rather than a warrant or probable cause, but new ILR School research suggests that obtaining true consent is difficult because most people are compliant and struggle to say “no.”

Research by Josh Felver, extension associate at the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, shows that engaging middle-school students in brief mindfulness exercises could boost their reading performance.