Laysha Ostrow (IRLE Scholar) My research project will seek to reduce disability burden and increase the contribution of people with psychiatric disabilities to the New Economy by developing adaptations in Supported Education and Employment interventions that are consistent with the current U.S. workforce demands for a knowledge/technology-based economy. Disability and unemployment rates among people with […]
Minor Mora-Salas (IRLE Scholar) My research focuses on the ongoing changes in labor relations and working conditions in the construction sector in Central America due to the proliferation of different precarious work arrangements. Analyzing feasible iniciatives, unions are developing to cope with precarious work and the dilemma they face once job precarity is well established as […]
Helge Schwiertz (IRLE Scholar) In a world of nation states, migration is often described as a problem. At the same time, the perspectives of those seen as migrants or refugees are neglected in the dominant discourse. My research project, therefore, takes up these perspectives by analyzing struggles of migration against the deprivation of rights and […]
Xingguo Li (IRLE Scholar) My research project focuses on governments’ role in labor relations and comparative study of labor policy concerning informal workers between China and the United States. Government is an important actor in labor relations. Government regulation influences labor a lot. This project tries to explore the theories for government intervention in labor […]
Feng Dai (IRLE Scholar) My research is to conduct an in-depth and comprehensive survey on the traits, changes and major influencing factors of US local labor market from a historical perspective; to analyze the effects of US-China trade on the employment and wages in the US from the perspectives of import and export in services […]
Chris Tilly, Pamela Izvanáriu Research Partners: Françoise Carré, University of Massachusetts Boston; Peter Evans, University of California Berkeley. IRLE researchers are drawing lessons from case studies in the United States and around the world about what makes bad jobs bad, and strategies for improving them. This has generated a variety of syntheses and collections. The […]
Chris Tilly Research Partners: Francoise Carré, University of Massachusetts, Boston This research project, led by IRLE director Chris Tilly, looks at variations and change in retail job quality in the US in the context of global comparisons with Mexico and several European countries, including Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The project, supported by funds […]
Chris Tilly, Lauren Appelbaum Research Partners: Headway Project IRLE researchers examined the impact of the California Film and Television Tax Credit on the location of film and V production in the state, and the consequent economic impact on the California economy. Coordinated by IRLE Research Director Lauren Appelbaum and Chris Tilly, the project was completed […]
Chris Tilly Research Partner: Joshua Bloom, UCLA Department of Sociology This research investigates why and how US unions use in-depth, strategic research to build power, and why and how it works. The project is coordinated by UCLA Sociology doctoral student Joshua Bloom and IRLE Director Chris Tilly and includes a working group of several other […]
