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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Essential jobs, remote work and digital surveillance: Addressing the COVID‐19 pandemic panopticon	42
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	23
Engagement with sustainability at the International Labour Organization and wider implications for collective worker voice	18
Gender and COVID‐19: Workers in global value chains	18
The future of work: Meeting the global challenges of demographic change and automation	18
The labour market fallout of COVID‐19: Who endures, who doesn't and what are the implications for inequality	17
Power relations in global supply chains and the unequal distribution of costs during crises: Abandoning garment suppliers and workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Occupational safety and health challenges for maritime key workers in the global COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Labour market flexibility in Indian manufacturing: A critical survey of the literature	13
COVID‐19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities	13
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers' livelihoods	12
Coping with precarity during COVID‐19: A study of platform work in Poland	11
Employment effects of skills around the world: Evidence from the PIAAC	9
Introduction: Worldwide patterns of legal segmentation in employment law	9
Technological change and employment in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico: Which workers are most affected?	9
The green factor: Unpacking green job growth	8
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 as simple as it seems: The ILO and the personal scope of international labour standards	8
COVID‐19 in Latin America: The effects of an unprecedented crisis on employment and income	8
Beyond “Industry 4.0": B2B factory networks as an alternative path towards the digital transformation of manufacturing and work	8
Making collective bargaining more inclusive: The role of extension	8
Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Not just black and white, but different shades of grey: Legal segmentation and its effect on labour market segmentation in Europe	7
The Rana Plaza disaster seven years on: Transnational experiments and perhaps a new treaty?	7
Syrian refugee labour and food insecurity in Middle Eastern agriculture during the early COVID‐19 pandemic	7

COVID‐19 and a “crisis of care”: A feminist analysis of public policy responses to paid and unpaid care and domestic work	7
Disruption in the apparel industry? Automation, employment and reshoring	7
COVID‐19 disparities by gender and income: Evidence from the Philippines	6
ISO 45001 and controversial transnational private regulation for occupational health and safety	6
Three labour governance mechanisms for addressing decent work deficits in global value chains	6
“There is no future in it”: Pandemic and ride‐hailing hustle in Africa	6
To what extent is social security spending associated with enhanced firm‐level performance? A case study of SMEs in Indonesia	6
The effects of the pandemic on gig economy couriers in Argentina and Chile: Precarity, algorithmic control and mobilization	6
Ripe to be heard: Worker voice in the Fair Food Program	6
Inequality of opportunity and (unequal) opportunities in the youth labour market: How is the Arab world different?	6
Health, cognition and work capacity beyond the age of 50: International evidence on the extensive and intensive margins of work	6
Labour market turnover in Latin America: How intensive is it and to what extent does it differ across countries?	6
From Rana Plaza to COVID‐19: Deficiencies and opportunities for a new labour governance system in garment global supply chains	6
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	4
The trade–labour relationship in the light of the WTO Appellate Body's embrace of pluralism	4
Introduction: Disruptions in global value chains – Continuity or change for labour governance?	4
Social partner participation in the management of the COVID‐19 crisis: Tripartite social dialogue in Italy, Portugal and Spain	4
Law and gendered labour market segmentation	4
Proportionate response to the COVID‐19 threat? Use of apps and other technologies for monitoring employees under the European Union's data protection framework	4
Occupational segregation of female and male immigrants in Europe: Accounting for cross‐country differences	4
The rise, demise and replacement of the Bangladesh experiment in transnational labour regulation	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	3
Good jobs and bad jobs for Indonesia's informal workers	3
A capacity index to replace flawed incident‐based metrics for worker safety	3
Freedom of association in the Bangladeshi garment industry: A policy schizophrenia in labour regulation	3
Freedom of association and collective bargaining in the platform economy: A human rights‐based approach and an ever‐increasing mobilization of workers	3
Why is the business case for social compliance in global value chains unpersuasive? Rethinking costs, prices and profits	3
South Korean first‐tier suppliers in apparel global value chains: Upgrading and labour implications in the Asian context	3
The changing importance of lifetime jobs in the United Kingdom	3
The long discourse on informality as reflected in selected articles of the International Labour Review	3
Measuring the effect of matching problems on unemployment	3
Tasks, occupations and wages in OECD countries	3
Networks of trust: Accessing informal work online in Indonesia during the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
Does deregulation decrease unemployment? An empirical analysis of the Spanish labour market	2
Freedom at, through and from work: Rethinking labour rights	2
Labour and technology: Reflecting on a century of debate in the International Labour Review	2
Photographs of young generations on the Dutch labour market	2
Changing perspectives on poverty and inequality: The contributions of the International Labour Review	2
How does labour share respond to risk? Theory and evidence from the Chinese industrial sector	2
Assessing companies' decent work practices: An analysis of ESG rating methodologies	2
Editorial: The Special Issue on COVID‐19 and the world of work	2
Gender, family status and health characteristics: Understanding retirement inequalities in the Chilean pension model	2
Do unions provide employment protection in times of economic crisis? A natural experiment of COVID‐19	2
Collective bargaining in domestic work and its contribution to regulation and formalization in Italy	1
Doing and undoing gender at work: The workplace experiences of trans people in Switzerland	1
Working‐time preferences among women: Challenging assumptions on underemployment, work centrality and work–life balance	1
Determinants of inequality in Indian regular wage employment, 1993–2012	1
The relationship between international law and European labour legislation and its impact on the development of international and European social law	1
Gender wage gap trends in Europe: The role of occupational skill prices	1

Digital platforms and the changing freelance workforce in the Russian Federation: A ten‐year perspective	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
Introduction: Transnational futures of international labour law	1
The role of local stakeholders in transforming economic upgrading into social upgrading in Ethiopian textile and garment firms	1
Labour market segmentation in Southern Africa and its impact on vulnerable workers	1
On social regionalism in transnational labour law	1
The correlation between unemployment and economic growth in Latin America – Okun's law estimates by country	1
Towards inclusive collective industrial relations: Selected articles from theInternational Labour Reviewthroughout the last century	1
International labour migration, farmland fallowing, livelihood diversification and technology adoption in Nepal	1
On the International Labour Organization and prison labour: An invitation to recalibrate	1
Information and avoidance behaviour: The effect of air pollution disclosure on labour supply in China	1
Delving into the past – Looking to the future	1
Tracking the changing discourse on development in the International Labour Review	1
Segmenting and equalizing narratives in the ILO's standard‐setting practice	1
Internal migration, remittances and labour force participation in rural India: A gender perspective	1
Inequality and informality revisited: The Latin American case	1
From Geneva to San José: The ILO standards and the Inter‐American System for the protection of human rights	1
Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub‐Saharan Africa: Informality and the colonial exploitative legal employment standard	1