Rosemary Batt
Rosemary Batt is the Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work at the ILR School, Cornell University. She is a Professor in Human Resource Studies and International and Comparative Labor and editor of the School’s flagship journal, the ILR Review. Her research focuses on global and comparative international studies of management and employment relations. In 2019 she was awarded a grant from the Sloan Foundation to research the effect of franchising on the labor market outcomes of managers and frontline employees, including the outsourcing and subcontracting of work.
She was a coordinator of the Global Call Center Project. See The Globalization of Service Work: Comparative Institutional Perspectives on Call Centers: Introduction to a Special Issue of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review to read some of her findings. She has written extensively on the effect that human resource practices and employment relations have on organizational performance, the quality of jobs, and wage and employment outcomes.
Along with Annette Bernhardt, Susan N. Houseman, and Eileen Appelbaum, she co-authored the Upjohn Institute working paper, Domestic Outsourcing in the United States: A Research Agenda to Assess Trends and Effects on Job Quality.
Chris Benner
Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity. His book, Work in the New Economy, focuses on the role of flexible labor in Silicon Valley. He has authored or co-authored five other books (most recently Equity, Growth and Community) and more than 70 journal articles, chapters, and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Nick Bloom
Nick Bloom is the William E. Eberle Professor of Economics in the department of economics at Stanford University and Professor, by courtesy, at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He is also the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Professor Bloom’s research focuses on measuring and explaining management practices. His publication, Inequality and the disappearing large firm wage premium, reflects on the impact that outsourcing may be having on the size and wages of companies.
He has been working with McKinsey & Company as part of a long-run effort to collect management data from over 10,000 firms across industries and countries. The aim is to build an empirical basis for understanding what factors drive differences in management practices across regions, industries, and countries, and how this determines firm and national performance.
Françoise Carré
Françoise Carré is Research Director of the Center for Social Policy (CSP) at University of Massachusetts Boston. Her policy relevant work includes studies of retail employment, community-based job brokers in the U.S., and research on international statistics and representation issues for informal workers in developing and developed countries.
Françoise has edited numerous publications, including The Informal Economy Revisited, an open-access book, and Nonstandard Work, a research volume for the Labor and Employment Research Association. She is co-author of Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies, with Chris Tilly.
Currently, she studies the outsourcing of technology adoption and implementation in store-based retail (with C. Tilly). Another current project is a multi-year collaboration about cross-national statistics on informal work and organizations of informal workers with the global research and policy network WIEGO.
Her research has been funded by the C. S. Mott Foundation, Ford Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the Gould Foundation for the Paris School of Economics, and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Aixa Cintrón-Vélez
Aixa Cintrón-Vélez is Program Director at the Russell Sage Foundation, where she manages the scientific portfolio for the Future of Work program and for the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration program. She has been instrumental in supporting a research agenda that focuses, among other subjects, on the outsourcing of work and the rise in contingent employment.
Before joining Russell Sage, she was a Research Associate at the Center for Hispanic Mental Health Research, taught in the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Welfare Policy from the University of Michigan.
Research Network
Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR School at Cornell University and a Senior Research Fellow at WSI-Hans Böckler Stiftung. Her research examines the relationship between labor market and collective bargaining institutions, inequality, and job quality, with a focus on the U.S. and Europe. She is the author of Disintegrating Democracy at Work and co-editor of Reconstructing Solidarity. Her forthcoming book Exit, Voice, and Solidarity compares labor responses to restructuring (outsourcing, downsizing, and performance management) in the telecommunications industry. She is currently studying the impact of digitalization and AI on job quality in the ICT services industry and ‘just transitions’ to e-mobility in the auto industry, based on comparative research in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Norway.
St. Joseph County June 2022
The Trend: St. Joseph County lost 138 jobs from Q3 2021 to Q4 2021. Between February and March, the unemployment rate fell, while the labor force participation rate and the employment-to-population ratio both increased. This is likely a sign that unemployed individuals are reentering the labor force and finding work. Job postings were higher in March than in February, with registered nurse as the job most in demand.
Kalamazoo County June 2022
The Trend: Kalamazoo County added 1,480 jobs from Q3 2021 to Q4 2021. Between February and March, the unemployment rate fell, while the labor force participation rate and the employment-to-population ratio both increased. This is likely a sign that unemployed individuals are reentering the labor force and finding work. Job postings were higher in March than in February, with registered nurse as the job most in demand.
Calhoun County June 2022
The Trend: Calhoun County employment increased from Q3 2021 to Q4 2021 by 636 jobs. Between February and March, the unemployment rate fell, while the labor force participation rate and the employment- to-population ratio both increased. This is likely a sign that unemployed individuals are reentering the labor force and finding work. Job postings were higher in March than in February, with registered nurse as the job most in demand.
Branch County June 2022
The Trend: Branch County employment grew, experiencing an increase
of 151 jobs from Q3 2021 to Q4 2021. Between February and March,
the unemployment rate fell, while the labor force participation rate and the employment-to-population ratio both increased. This is likely a sign that unemployed individuals are reentering the labor force and finding work. Job postings were higher in March than in February, with retail sales associate and retail store manager as the most in-demand positions.
NHQI December 2017
Upjohn Institute New Hires Quality Index for December 2017 shows overall 0.2 percent uptick, much stronger growth among oldest workers
St. Joseph County November 2021
The Trend: St. Joseph County lost nearly 400 jobs from Q4 2020 to Q1 2021. From July to August, the unemployment rate fell while the labor force participation rate and employment-to-population ratio increased. This is likely a sign that unemployed individuals are finding work. Job postings were higher in August than in July, with retail sales associate as the most in-demand job.
Branch County May 2022
The Trend: Branch County employment grew, experiencing an increase of 217 jobs from Q2 2021 to Q3 2021. Between January and February, the unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate increased, and the employment-to-population ratio was unchanged. This is likely a sign that unemployed individuals are still looking for work. Job postings were higher in February than in January, with retail sales associate as the most in-demand position.
NHQI October 2017
Upjohn Institute New Hires Quality Index for October 2017 shows overall 0.4 percent uptick, but separate trends by race and ethnicity
NHQI November 2017
Upjohn Institute New Hires Quality Index for November 2017 shows overall 0.2 percent uptick, much stronger growth among oldest workers
NHQI May 2022
volume remains robust, but public-sector lags well behind
Kalamazoo County August 2022
The Trend: Kalamazoo County added 1,480 jobs from Q3 2021 to Q4 2021. Between April and May, the unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, and employment-to-population ratio all increased. This is likely a sign that some individuals are reentering the labor force and finding work, while others are still looking. Job postings were lower in May than in April because of a methodology change in posting data collection by Labor Insight from Burning Glass Technologies, a database of job- posting information. Registered nurse was the job most in demand.
Calhoun County August 2022
The Trend: Calhoun County employment increased from Q3 2021 to Q4 2021 by 636 jobs. Between April and May, the unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, and employment-to-population ratio all increased. This is likely a sign that some individuals are reentering the labor force and finding work, while others are still looking. Job postings were lower in May than in April because of a methodology change in posting data collection by Labor Insight, from Burning Glass Technologies, a database of job-posting information. Retail sales associate was the most in-demand position.
NHQI January 2023
Upjohn Institute New Hires Quality Index halts slide with 0.2 percent increase in January 2024, even as hiring volume falls and the goods sector weakens
NHQI February 2022
Upjohn Institute New Hires Quality Index for February 2022 slips 0.2 percent; Northeast shows stronger growth than South