OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ILR Review is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Formal and Informal Regulation of Labor in AI: The Experience of Eastern and Southern Africa	65
What Defines Our Unique Precarity? A Response to the Reviews	33
Employer Discretion: The Role of Collective Agreements in the Liberalization of Industrial Relations	28
Book Review: Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. By Margot Canaday	26
Book Review: Reforming Capitalism for the Common Good: Essays in Institutional and Post-Keynesian Economics, by Charles J. Whalen	25
Book Review: Putting Skill to Work: How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times, by Nichola Lowe	23
Book Review: Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry, by Michael G. Hillard	22
Beggaring Thy Co-Worker: Labor Market Dualization and the Wage Growth Slowdown in Europe	21
Politicising Commodification: A Response to Ban, Béthoux, Rhodes, and Martínez Lucio	16
Beyond the Ladder: The Effects of Limited Promotion Opportunities on Bureaucrats’ Career Decisions and Work Effort	15
Book Reviews: Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry: An International Perspective. Edited by Dale Belman, Janet Druker, and Geoffrey White	14
What Does Codetermination Do?	13
Commentary on New Theories in Employment Relations	13
Book Review: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, by Aliya Hamid Rao	12
Book Review: Taking Back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism. By Wolfgang Streeck	10
Introduction to a Special Issue: Social Europe: The Changing Contours of Transnational Employment Relations in the European Union	10
Book Review: Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice. By Todd E. Vachon	10
Gender Inequality, Bargaining, and Pay in Care Services in the United States	10
Intersecting Biases: Does Veteran Status Overcome Disability and Gender Disadvantages in the Employment Landscape?	9
Contract Employment: Measurement and Implications for Employer–Employee Relationships	9
The Cumulative Advantage of a Unionized Career for Lifetime Earnings	9
Workplace Artificial Intelligence Regulation in China: Between Efficiency and Social Stability	9
Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native- and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock	9
The Economics of Immigration: A Festschrift in Honor of George J. Borjas	9
Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work: Evidence from California Tax Data	8

Emerging Technologies at Work: Policy Ideas to Address Negative Consequences for Work, Workers, and Society	8
Book Review: Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States, by Jonathan Levy	8
Indices to Volume 75 2022	7
Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?	7
Middle-Class Transnational Migration and Its Margins in The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program	7
The Impact of Manufacturing Credentials on Earnings and the Probability of Employment	6
Negotiating about Algorithms: Social Partner Responses to AI in Denmark and Sweden	5
Book Review: Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age. By Debbie J. Goldman	5
Trade Unions and the Welfare of Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China	5
Book Review: Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management, by Matt Vidal	5
An Empirical Analysis of Race and Political Partisanship Effects on Workplace Mobility Patterns During Lockdown, Reopening, and Endemic COVID-19	5
Days of Work over a Half Century: The Rise of the Four-Day Workweek	5
Letter from the Editors	5
Introductory Essay: Migration and the Class Question	5
Book Review: The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990, by Allison Elias	5
When the Tasks Line Up: How the Nature of Supplementary Tasks Affects Worker Productivity	4
Book Review: Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American? . By Jason S. Spicer Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exce	4
Public-Sector Unions as Equalizing Institutions: Race, Gender, and Earnings	4
What Are the Consequences of Right-to-Work for Union Membership?	4
Book Review: Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the U.S. Corporation. By William Lazonick	4
Exuberant Proclivity toward Non-Standard Employment: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data	4
Book Review: Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st-Century Europe . Edited by Julian Manley, Anthony Webster, and Olga Kuznetsova Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st	4
Linking Precarious Work to Unpaid Labor	4
Reply to “Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working” by William A. Darity Jr. et al.	3
Which Mexicans Are White? Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans	3
Schooling and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures in the United States	3
Indices to Volume 74, 2021	3
Entrepreneurship Lock and the Demand for Health Insurance: Evidence from the US Affordable Care Act	3
Book Reviews: The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation. By Heejung Chung	3
Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap: The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status	3
Book Review: Arise: Power, Strategy, and Union Resurgence, by Jane Holgate	2
Book Review: Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office, by Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross	2
Book Review: Automation Anxiety: Why and How to Save Work, by Cynthia Estlund	2
First to $15: Alberta’s Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places	2
Task Content and Job Losses in the Great Lockdown	2
Are Soft Skills Enough? Experimental Evidence on Skill Complementarity for College Graduates	2
Effects of New Technologies on Work: The Case of Additive Manufacturing	2
Book Review: The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era, by Ronald W. Schatz	2
Book Review: Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains: Problems, Progress, and Prospects, by Sarosh Kuruvilla	2
The Centrality of Labor in The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration	2
Workplace AI Regulation and Worker Resistance in Korea	2