Research

An ILR-Weill Cornell Medicine collaboration highlights the benefits of prioritizing enhanced working conditions for frontline health care workers as a way to improve long-term patient care.

Employers who use technological advancement to reshape workers’ jobs can help improve patient care while improving the work experience of frontline health care workers, Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin argues in a peer-reviewed commentary.

Assistant Professor Desiree LeClercq argues that, while it will be difficult, international organizations must regain control over the enforcement of international law.

How has Zoom changed dispute resolution practices during the pandemic? How will the arbitration and mediation profession be diversified? Early survey results are expected in December.

Study co-authored by ILR’s Seth Sanders, the Ronald Ehrenberg Professor of Economics, indicates that COVID-19 has slowed birth rates in high-income countries.

Beginning in 2022, report will be published on Labor Day.

Assistant Professor Courtney McCluney and co-authors recommend that companies expand or redefine what constitutes professionalism to encompasses a range of cultural norms, behaviors and values.

New research from JR Keller indicates that companies that strategically manage their internal talent pool are better positioned to keep rejected employees onboard.

In “You Have More Influence Than You Think,” Associate Professor Vanessa Bohns explains how to recognize the influence we have over others.

Associate Professor Vanessa Bohns says that consent has been a neglected topic in mainstream psychology. In an upcoming article, she argues now is the time to build a better psychological definition.

In new research, Assistant Professor JR Keller and his co-authors examine how workgroup demographics affects employees’ responses to pay inequality.

A new paper from ILR’s New Conversation Project differentiates between apparel industry changes brought on by COVID-19 and those that result from the industry’s natural trajectory.

Assistant Professor Dina Bishara compared Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco to explore the emergence – or lack thereof – of collective associations of unemployed university graduates.

In collaboration with the Gender Policy Report, researchers at the The Worker Institute co-authored a new report that provides guidance on several measures and principles they say should be built into any new child care, long-term care and health care investments in order to drive greater equity.

In new research out of the ILR School, Assistant Professors John McCarthy and JR Keller suggest that managers who encourage employee input may gain an internal recruiting advantage over those who do not.

Trade agreements should include more resources for trade partners, says Assistant Professor Desiree LeClercq.

“Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains,” a new book by Professor Sarosh Kuruvilla, examines the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility in improving labor standards in global supply chains.

International organizations must improve coordination with each other to help governments recover from COVID-19, says Assistant Professor Desiree LeClercq.

A new paper from Associate Professor Ariel Avgar addresses the five key ways in which non-union firms handle dispute resolution.

A year-long mapping exercise, utilizing COVID-19 as a “stress test,” has resulted in 10 country-specific reports on the state of worker organizing, bargaining and social dialogue in garment-producing nations.

The May issue of the ILR School’s peer-reviewed journal explores new theories that help us understand economic and social changes that affect employment relations.

New research co-authored by Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin and Sherry M. Tanious ’17 suggests that companies focused on quality, not price, are more likely to use technology to empower workers rather than to replace them with temps.