OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Labour Review is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Essential jobs, remote work and digital surveillance: Addressing the COVID‐19 pandemic panopticon	51
Is this time really different? How the impact of the COVID‐19 crisis on labour markets contrasts with that of the global financial crisis of 2008–09	30
Gender and COVID‐19: Workers in global value chains	23
Power relations in global supply chains and the unequal distribution of costs during crises: Abandoning garment suppliers and workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	22
The labour market fallout of COVID‐19: Who endures, who doesn't and what are the implications for inequality	22
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers' livelihoods	20
Occupational safety and health challenges for maritime key workers in the global COVID‐19 pandemic	19
Engagement with sustainability at the International Labour Organization and wider implications for collective worker voice	19
Coping with precarity during COVID‐19: A study of platform work in Poland	15
COVID‐19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities	15
Labour market flexibility in Indian manufacturing: A critical survey of the literature	15
COVID‐19 and a “crisis of care”: A feminist analysis of public policy responses to paid and unpaid care and domestic work	12
COVID‐19 in Latin America: The effects of an unprecedented crisis on employment and income	11
The Rana Plaza disaster seven years on: Transnational experiments and perhaps a new treaty?	11
Making collective bargaining more inclusive: The role of extension	11
Not as simple as it seems: The ILO and the personal scope of international labour standards	10
Introduction: Worldwide patterns of legal segmentation in employment law	10
Beyond “Industry 4.0": B2B factory networks as an alternative path towards the digital transformation of manufacturing and work	10
Three labour governance mechanisms for addressing decent work deficits in global value chains	10
Disruption in the apparel industry? Automation, employment and reshoring	9
Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
The green factor: Unpacking green job growth	9
The performance effects of collective and individual bargaining: A comprehensive and granular analysis of the effects of different bargaining systems on company productivity	8
Not just black and white, but different shades of grey: Legal segmentation and its effect on labour market segmentation in Europe	7
From Rana Plaza to COVID‐19: Deficiencies and opportunities for a new labour governance system in garment global supply chains	7

Syrian refugee labour and food insecurity in Middle Eastern agriculture during the early COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Health, cognition and work capacity beyond the age of 50: International evidence on the extensive and intensive margins of work	7
COVID‐19 disparities by gender and income: Evidence from the Philippines	7
Ripe to be heard: Worker voice in the Fair Food Program	7
Proportionate response to the COVID‐19 threat? Use of apps and other technologies for monitoring employees under the European Union's data protection framework	6
“There is no future in it”: Pandemic and ride‐hailing hustle in Africa	6
Occupational segregation of female and male immigrants in Europe: Accounting for cross‐country differences	6
The effects of the pandemic on gig economy couriers in Argentina and Chile: Precarity, algorithmic control and mobilization	6
Freedom at, through and from work: Rethinking labour rights	5
Networks of trust: Accessing informal work online in Indonesia during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Labour is not a commodity: The content and meaning of work in the twenty‐first century	5
Legal segmentation in China, India, Malaysia and Viet Nam	5
Assessing companies' decent work practices: An analysis of ESG rating methodologies	5
Social partner participation in the management of the COVID‐19 crisis: Tripartite social dialogue in Italy, Portugal and Spain	4
Introduction: Disruptions in global value chains – Continuity or change for labour governance?	4
A capacity index to replace flawed incident‐based metrics for worker safety	4
The changing importance of lifetime jobs in the United Kingdom	4
The evaluation of workers by customers as a method of control and monitoring in firms: Digital reputation and the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation	4
The rise, demise and replacement of the Bangladesh experiment in transnational labour regulation	4
The trade–labour relationship in the light of the WTO Appellate Body's embrace of pluralism	4
Law and gendered labour market segmentation	4
Inequality and informality revisited: The Latin American case	4
Shorter hours wanted? A systematic review of working‐time preferences and outcomes	3
Freedom of association and collective bargaining in the platform economy: A human rights‐based approach and an ever‐increasing mobilization of workers	3
Tasks, occupations and wages in OECD countries	3
Editorial: The Special Issue on COVID‐19 and the world of work	3
Labour and technology: Reflecting on a century of debate in the International Labour Review	3
South Korean first‐tier suppliers in apparel global value chains: Upgrading and labour implications in the Asian context	3
From Geneva to San José: The ILO standards and the Inter‐American System for the protection of human rights	3
The long discourse on informality as reflected in selected articles of the International Labour Review	3
Why is the business case for social compliance in global value chains unpersuasive? Rethinking costs, prices and profits	3
Good jobs and bad jobs for Indonesia's informal workers	3
Changing perspectives on poverty and inequality: The contributions of the International Labour Review	2
Doing and undoing gender at work: The workplace experiences of trans people in Switzerland	2
Essential yet excluded: COVID‐19 and the decent work deficit among domestic workers in Brazil	2
Segmenting and equalizing narratives in the ILO's standard‐setting practice	2
Gender wage gap trends in Europe: The role of occupational skill prices	2
International labour migration, farmland fallowing, livelihood diversification and technology adoption in Nepal	2
Introduction: Transnational futures of international labour law	2
The role of local stakeholders in transforming economic upgrading into social upgrading in Ethiopian textile and garment firms	2
Do unions provide employment protection in times of economic crisis? A natural experiment of COVID‐19	2
Labour disputes in contexts of trade union fragmentation and pluralism: An empirical analysis of the case of Chile	2
Collective bargaining in domestic work and its contribution to regulation and formalization in Italy	2
Gender, family status and health characteristics: Understanding retirement inequalities in the Chilean pension model	2
The value of complaints mechanisms in the private labour regulation of GVCs: A case study of the Fair Labor Association	2
The correlation between unemployment and economic growth in Latin America – Okun's law estimates by country	2
The relationship between international law and European labour legislation and its impact on the development of international and European social law	1
Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? Revisiting the insider–outsider theory*	1
Digital platforms and the changing freelance workforce in the Russian Federation: A ten‐year perspective	1
Obstacles to labour market participation among Arab Palestinian women in Israel	1

Leveraging transparency to shift capital‐labour relations in garment sector production: A critical analysis of the design and structure of the Bangladesh Accord	1
Safety and health at work as fundamental rights: A comparative‐historical study of the ILO's strategy of realistic vigilance	1
Information and avoidance behaviour: The effect of air pollution disclosure on labour supply in China	1
Labour market segmentation in Southern Africa and its impact on vulnerable workers	1
On social regionalism in transnational labour law	1
Internal migration, remittances and labour force participation in rural India: A gender perspective	1
Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub‐Saharan Africa: Informality and the colonial exploitative legal employment standard	1
On the International Labour Organization and prison labour: An invitation to recalibrate	1
Disentangling the attractiveness of telework to employees: A factorial survey experiment	1
Working‐time preferences among women: Challenging assumptions on underemployment, work centrality and work–life balance	1
Educational mismatches of newly hired workers: Short‐ and medium‐term effects on wages	1
Determinants of inequality in Indian regular wage employment, 1993–2012	1
Towards inclusive collective industrial relations: Selected articles from theInternational Labour Reviewthroughout the last century	1
Robots and employment: A review	1
Labour law in the 100 years of the International Labour Review	1
The International Labour Review and gender equality: The importance of women's unpaid and paid work	1
Delving into the past – Looking to the future	1
Tracking the changing discourse on development in the International Labour Review	1