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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 51 - 82.

Zhang, Xueying; Lu, Haiyuan: Compensation for Compulsory Land Acquisition in China: to Rebuild Expropriated Farmers’ Long-Term Livelihoods, 2011

Chen, Zhao; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi: Social Networks and Labor Market Entry Barriers: Understanding Inter-industrial Wage Differentials in Urban China, 2010

Choi, Jin Nam: The Effects of Human Resource Development Investment and Learning Practices on Innovative Performance of Organizations, 2010

de la Garza Toledo, Enrique: Change and Continuity in Labor Relations in Mexico at the Beginning of the 21st Century, 2010

de la Garza Toledo, Enrique; Gaspar, Héctor: Modelos de Producción y Mercado de Trabajo de los Profesionistas en México, 2010

de Andrade Baltar, Paulo Eduardo; dos Santos, Anselmo Luis; Krein, Jose Dari; Leone, Eugenia; Weishaupt Proni, Marcelo; Moretto, Amilton et al.: Moving towards Decent Work. Labour in the Lula government: reflections on recent Brazilian experience, 2010

de la Garza Toledo, Enrique; Rodríguez Gutiérrez, J. Guadalupe: Trabajo Cognitivo y Control Sobre el Proceso de Trabajo: La Producción de Software, 2010

Du, Fenglian: Does “sheep” bring the bad luck? The impacts of education resources on education attainment and earnings in China, 2010

Luce, Caroline: Radicalism in the Ethnic Market- The Jewish Bakers Union of Los Angeles in the 1920s, 2010

Minghai, Zhou; Wen, Xiao; Xianguo, Yao: Unbalanced Economic Growth and Uneven National Income Distribution: Evidence from China, 2010

Mitchell, Daniel JB: Homeland Security: Theme of the New Deal, 2010

Serrano Arguello, Noemi: LABOUR MIGRATION IN EUROPEAN UNION: About a new European Union policy: common immigration policy, 2010

Tilly, Chris: An opportunity not taken…yet: U.S. labor and the current economic crisis, 2010

Vidal, Matt: ON THE PERSISTENCE OF LABOR MARKET INSECURITY AND SLOW GROWTH IN THE US: Reckoning with the Waltonist Growth Regime, 2010

Ahlquist, John: Building Strategic Capacity: the political underpinnings of coordinated wage bargaining, 2009

Bonacich, Edna; De Lara, Juan David: Economic Crisis and the Logistics Industry: Financial Insecurity for Warehouse Workers in the Inland Empire, 2009

Boushey, Heather; Tilly, Chris: Work-Based Social Support in the United States:, 2009

Evans, Peter: Is an Alternative Globalization Possible?, 2009

Jacoby, Sanford: Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy, 2009

Kennedy, Marie; Tilly, Chris; Arce, Mercedes: Participatory planning in a rural Mexican village: Lessons for community development and planning education, 2009

Kennedy, Marie: Transformative Planning for Community Development, 2009

Lee, Ching Kwan: Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers and the Politics of Casualization in Africa’s Chinese Enclaves, 2009

Tilly, Chris: Beyond “contratos de protección”: Strong and weak unionism in Mexican retail enterprises, 2009

Unzueta, Miguel M.; Binning, Kevin R.: Diversity is in the Eye of the Beholder: How Majority and Minority Group Members Define Diversity, 2009

Waldinger, Roger; Reichl Luthra, Renee: Intro the Mainstream? Labor Market Outcomes of Mexican Origin Workers, 2009

Albelda, Randy: Why it’s harder (and different) for single mothers: Gender, motherhood, labor markets and public work supports, 2008

Bernhardt, Annette; Boushey, Heather; Dresser, Laura; Tilly, Chris: An Introduction to the “Gloves-off” Economy, 2008

Carré, Françoise; Tilly, Chris: America’s biggest low-wage industry: Continuity and change in retail jobs, 2008

Meléndez, Edwin; Theodore, Nik; Valenzuela, Abel: Day Labor Worker Centers: New Approaches to Protecting Labor Standards in the Informal Economy, 2008

Stone, Katherine: The Future of Labor and Employment Law in the United States, 2008

Waldinger, Roger: Mexican Immigrants in an Unequal America: Starting out at the bottom, moving ahead?, 2008

Golden, Miriam; Wallerstein, Michael: Domestic and International Causes for the Rise of Pay Inequality: Post Industrialism, Globalization and Labor Market Institutions, 2006

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