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Working Papers

The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment supports faculty and graduate student research on employment and labor topics in a variety of academic disciplines. The Institute also sponsors colloquia, conferences and other public programming, and is home to the undergraduate minor in Labor and Workplace Studies at UCLA. The Institute also includes three sub-units: the UCLA Labor Center, the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, and the Human Resources Round Table.

There are 82 publications in this collection, published between 2006 and 2019. Showing 1 - 50.

Pernicka, Susanne: The Disruption of Taxi and Limousine Markets by Digital Platform Corporations in Western Europe and the United States: Responses of Business Associations, Labor Unions, and Other Interest Groups, 2019

Elobeid, Hadelzein: 'Making Visible the Invisible': A Glimpse into the History, Evolution and Current Dynamics of Domestic Work Relationships in Sudan, 2016

Izvanariu, Pamela A: Matters Settled but Not Resolved: Worker Misclassification in the Rideshare Sector, 2016

Shimanuki, Tomoyuki: Temporary Agency Jobs in Japan:  Bad Employment Contracts or Bad Employment Relationships?, 2016

Chen, Yiu Por Vincent Dr.: Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rual China (1982-87), 2015

Dai, Feng: Gains or Pains?-- Effects of US-China Trade on US Employment: Based on a WIOT Analysis from 1995 to 2011, 2015

Ishimoto, Michael: Fear and Mistrust: The Relationship Among Japanese American Farmers, Organized Labor, and Future Generations, 2015

Martin, Isaac W: What Property Tax Limitations Do to Local Finances: A Meta-Analysis, 2015

Martin, Isaac W.: What Property Tax Limitations Do to Local Finances: A Meta-Analysis, 2015

Roberts, Anthony J; Habans, Robert A: Exploring the Effects of Right-to-Work Laws on Private Wages, 2015

Schwiertz, Helge: Beyond the Dreamer Narrative – Undocumented Youth Organizing Against Criminalization and Deportations in California, 2015

Bendersky, Corinne: Resolving Ideological Conflicts by Affirming Opponents’ Status: The Tea Party, Obamacare and the 2013 government shutdown, 2014

García Zamora, Rodolfo: Mexico’s experience of migration and development 1990-2013, 2014

Higbie, Tobias: Five Ideas for Digital Labor History, 2014

Leite, Marcia: Trabalho e Desigualdades: Desafi os para o novo modelo brasileiro de desenvolvimento, 2014

Salinas, Javier: Labor Relations and the Development of the Aerospace Industry in Mexico, 2014

Stone, Katherine V.W.: Green Shoots in the Labor Market: A Cornucopia of Social Experiments, 2014

Tang, Ni: Migrant Workers’ Educational Mismatch and the Labor Market in China, 2014

Vidal, Matt: Customer Service and the Disempowered Client: Business Process Reengineering in a Public Welfare Agency, 2014

Zatz, Noah D; Boris, Eileen: Seeing Work, Envisioning Citizenship, 2014

Adler, Patrick; Öner, Özge: Occupational Class and the Marriage Premium: Exploring Treatment Mechanisms, 2013

Denham, Diana; Tilly, Chris: Entrepreneurial dreams, harsh realities: Aspirations and mobility in informal and formal retail jobs in Mexico, 2013

Higbie, Tobias: Stirring the Pot and Adding Some Spice: Workers Education at the University of California, 1921-1962, 2013

Jain, Monica: Public Preschooling and Maternal Labor Force Participation in Rural India., 2013

Jain, Monica: A Vaccination for Education - The ICDS and the Education of Older Girls in Rural India, 2013

Lewin, David: The Idea and Practice of Contract in U.S. Employment Relations: Analysis and Policy Implications, 2013

Pierce, Gregory: The Prospects for Social Business in Peri-Urban Water Supply: Employment and Household Welfare Impacts of the Grameen Veolia Venture, 2013

Stone, Katherine V.W.: Procedure, Substance, and Power: Collective Litigation and Arbitration of Employment Rights, 2013

Stuesse, Angela; Helton, Laura E: Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History, 2013

Sung, Sun Young; Choi, Jin Nam: Workforce Diversity in Manufacturing Companies and Organizational Performance: The Role of Status-Relatedness and Internal Processes, 2013

Tilly, Chris: Trade unions, inequality, and democracy in the US and Mexico, 2013

Argüello, Noemí: What Does Labour Law Have To Say About Especially Vulnerable Women Victims?, 2012

Chen, Yiu Por: Land Use Rights, Market Transition, and Rural-urban Labor Migration in China (1980-84), 2012

Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd: The Elasticity of Labor Supply to the Firm Over the Business Cycle, 2012

Harcourt, Mark; Lam, Helen; Hannay, Maureen: Employment at Will versus Just Cause Dismissal: Applying the Due Process Model of Procedural Justice, 2012

Hassan, Amira; Hyder, Asma: Employment Patterns among Women: A Comparative Study of Rural Malawi and Rural Pakistan, 2012

Higbie, Tobias: Why Do Robots Rebel? The Labor History of a Cultural Icon, 2012

Khawaja, Idrees: Development, Disparity, and Colonial Shocks: Do Endowments Matter?, 2012

Ra, Young Sun: Government-led Vocational Training System and its Lessons: In case of South Korea before the IMF Economic Crisis, 2012

Stone, Katherine: The Decline in the Standard Employment Contract: Evidence from Ten Advanced Industrial Countries, 2012

Stone, Katherine: Globalization and the Middle Class, 2012

Vidal, Matt: Between the Low Road and the High Road: Logics of Valorization and Regimes of Lean Production in US Manufacturing, 2012

Waqas, Muhammad; Hyder, Asma: Pakistan's Beveridge Curve- an Exploration of Structural Unemployment, 2012

Appelbaum, Lauren D.: Reconnecting to Work - Introduction, 2011

Ho, GeoffreyHo C.; Shih, Margaret; Walters, Daniel J.; Pittinsky, Todd L.: The Stigma of Unemployment: When joblessness leads to being jobless, 2011

Hyder, Asma; Ahmed, Ather Maqsood: The Dynamics of Moonlighting in Pakistan, 2011

Laslett, JHM: False Dawn? Los Angeles Labor's Recent Growth and Future Prospects, 2011

Mitchell, Daniel JB: Government by (Hot) Checks and (Im) Balances: California's State Budget from the May 2009 Voter Rejection to the Octobr 2010 Budget Deal, 2011

Vidal, Matt: JOB QUALITY AND INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF COMPETITION IN POSTFORDIST CAPITALISM, 2011

Young Sung, Sun; Choi, Jin Nam: The Effects of Human Resource Development on Operational and Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Analysis, 2011

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