Working Papers

Parent: Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

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Item	Title	Total requests	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05	2026-04
0jm096mm	Why Do Robots Rebel? The Labor History of a Cultural Icon	486	119	84	133	150
66s1j4n4	Employment at Will versus Just Cause Dismissal: Applying the Due Process Model of Procedural Justice	459	36	145	169	109
7nh039h1	The Stigma of Unemployment: When joblessness leads to being jobless	362	58	107	85	112
5fj1n4f8	Government-led Vocational Training System and its Lessons: In case of South Korea before the IMF Economic Crisis	356	30	123	105	98
8b9364pm	Temporary Agency Jobs in Japan:  Bad Employment Contracts or Bad Employment Relationships?	270	17	89	106	58
0ck918nv	Development, Disparity, and Colonial Shocks: Do Endowments Matter?	252	32	52	90	78
2037d9f7	Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers and the Politics of Casualization in Africa’s Chinese Enclaves	237	57	51	72	57
5qz0x0wh	Compensation for Compulsory Land Acquisition in China: to Rebuild Expropriated Farmers’ Long-Term Livelihoods	236	26	46	87	77
6w6062g2	Moving towards Decent Work. Labour in the Lula government: reflections on recent Brazilian experience	210	30	53	70	57
20p3h64t	Diversity is in the Eye of the Beholder: How Majority and Minority Group Members Define Diversity	207	25	64	44	74
5n091465	Exploring the Effects of Right-to-Work Laws on Private Wages	202	26	28	82	66
2bt5m91g	ON THE PERSISTENCE OF LABOR MARKET INSECURITY AND SLOW GROWTH IN THE US: Reckoning with the Waltonist Growth Regime	198	13	15	146	24
42q1792z	Matters Settled but Not Resolved: Worker Misclassification in the Rideshare Sector	195	23	37	75	60
6bb807jq	Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy	182	28	19	56	79
0hx0126r	'Making Visible the Invisible': A Glimpse into the History, Evolution and Current Dynamics of Domestic Work Relationships in Sudan	176	19	31	79	47
4p63p7ts	Pakistan's Beveridge Curve- an Exploration of Structural Unemployment	173	32	31	61	49
8727p3gd	Does “sheep” bring the bad luck? The impacts of education resources on education attainment and earnings in China	172	13	51	73	35
1wj2t7cs	What Property Tax Limitations Do to Local Finances: A Meta-Analysis	170	17	38	57	58
8rn2h9ch	Economic Crisis and the Logistics Industry: Financial Insecurity for Warehouse Workers in the Inland Empire	168	29	36	58	45
0m96d1fm	Beyond the Dreamer Narrative – Undocumented Youth Organizing Against Criminalization and Deportations in California	166	22	32	71	41
7k66f0jn	Fear and Mistrust: The Relationship Among Japanese American Farmers, Organized Labor, and Future Generations	166	13	29	82	42
5xz8p7bk	The Effects of Human Resource Development on Operational and Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Analysis	164	22	31	57	54
53b6q84v	Radicalism in the Ethnic Market- The Jewish Bakers Union of Los Angeles in the 1920s	163	18	27	66	52
0455r2rm	A Vaccination for Education - The ICDS and the Education of Older Girls in Rural India	157	12	20	82	43
9r68v14v	Workforce Diversity in Manufacturing Companies and Organizational Performance: The Role of Status-Relatedness and Internal Processes	156	16	39	52	49
2d15z31p	Stirring the Pot and Adding Some Spice: Workers Education at the University of California, 1921-1962	155	11	35	69	40
4pf948h2	Is an Alternative Globalization Possible?	151	45	28	33	45
5q75j2cc	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	151	9	35	65	42
7wk5m8rz	Public Preschooling and Maternal Labor Force Participation in Rural India.	144	14	28	62	40
9b21q5qd	Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History	142	23	24	46	49
3xm5f2nj	An Introduction to the “Gloves-off” Economy	141	16	23	50	52
4cw578fp	What Property Tax Limitations Do to Local Finances: A Meta-Analysis	141	21	31	53	36
1wj7c2tb	The Decline in the Standard Employment Contract: Evidence from Ten Advanced Industrial Countries	140	31	34	46	29
3h22r900	Unbalanced Economic Growth and Uneven National Income Distribution: Evidence from China	140	14	27	44	55
0rb594s5	Labor Relations and the Development of the Aerospace Industry in Mexico	138	11	15	61	51
4rk031zq	The Dynamics of Moonlighting in Pakistan	138	9	25	58	46
3dg9877r	Trabajo Cognitivo y Control Sobre el Proceso de Trabajo: La Producción de Software	131	8	46	36	41
6cw286pv	The Effects of Human Resource Development Investment and Learning Practices on Innovative Performance of Organizations	131	13	21	57	40
7bd4j4tr	Change and Continuity in Labor Relations in Mexico at the Beginning of the 21st Century	129	20	65	21	23
0wt3v445	Trade unions, inequality, and democracy in the US and Mexico	126	8	27	51	40
3fs5129s	JOB QUALITY AND INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF COMPETITION IN POSTFORDIST CAPITALISM	119	11	26	47	35
14r1s460	Transformative Planning for Community Development	118	14	18	42	44
2tj127tb	The Idea and Practice of Contract in U.S. Employment Relations: Analysis and Policy Implications	118	8	17	49	44
6w3620jj	The Future of Labor and Employment Law in the United States	118	9	25	41	43
7fm329p1	Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rual China (1982-87)	117	3	21	64	29
1dp4n18k	The Elasticity of Labor Supply to the Firm Over the Business Cycle	112	16	20	50	26
5cs5m6fs	Migrant Workers’ Educational Mismatch and the Labor Market in China	112	9	20	55	28
184333nw	Occupational Class and the Marriage Premium: Exploring Treatment Mechanisms	110	7	16	46	41
0xk780xv	Employment Patterns among Women: A Comparative Study of Rural Malawi and Rural Pakistan	109	9	12	51	37
9n98d9wq	An opportunity not taken…yet: U.S. labor and the current economic crisis	109	11	11	48	39

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