The paper deals with the regulatory gaps that resulted in devastating and scandalizing wages and working conditions in the German meat industry for more than two decades.
Wed, 10/01/2025, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
We study the role of union heterogeneity in shaping wages and inequality among unionized workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil and job moves across multi-firm unions, we estimate over 4,800 union-specific pay premia. Unions explain 3–4% of earnings variation. While unions raise wages on average, the standard deviation in union effects is large (6-7%). Validating our approach, wages fall in markets with higher vs. lower union premia following a nationwide right-to-work law. Linking premia to detailed data on union attributes, we find that unions with strike activity, collective bargaining agreements, internal competition, and skilled leaders secure higher wages. High-premium unions compress wage gaps by education while the average union exacerbates them. Post right-to-work, however, worker support for high-premium unions falls when between-group bargaining differentials are large. Our findings show that unions are not a monolith—their structure and actions shape their wage effects and, consequently, worker support.
Fri, 10/31/2025, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
While it is well-known that spillovers occur between workplaces and civic society, examinations are largely limited to employee voice effects on distal acts like voting. Spillovers between broader employment experiences and socio-politically extreme belief formation are less developed. We theorize that positive employment experiences reduce individual-level socio-politically extreme beliefs through control loss mitigation, anxiety reductions, and exposure to new perspectives. We also propose heterogeneous job empowerment effects.
Wed, 11/05/2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Center for Global Work and Employment co-organized a summer camp with Rutgers Global for students from Renmin University of China on the Rutgers-New Brunswick Campus.
Mon, 07/31/2023 - Fri, 08/11/2023
The Center for Global Work and Employment Relations co-organized a conference with Renmin University of China on "Technology and Work" at Renmin University, Beijing. The Center for Global Work and Employment Relations co-organized a conference with Renmin University of China on Technology and Work at Renmin University, Beijing, July 16-18. More than 120 scholars and students from 46 universities in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and China participated in the conference
Sun, 07/16/2023 - Tue, 07/18/2023
Join the Center for Global Work and Employment (CGWE) on Thursday, July 13 and Friday, July 14 from 9:30-11:30am to celebrate the culmination of the first Global Future of Workers (FOWers) Initiative!
Thu, 07/13/2023 & Fri, 07/14/2023, 9:30am - 11:30am
Our current capitalist system is jeopardizing the future of the planet. How can we create the coalitions capable of moving us towards an ecofriendly solidarity society? In this talk, we will explore the priorities of the powerful, the mistaken theories that justify their hegemony, and the alternative world views that are firing the imagination and efforts of feminists and other activists to bring about transformative change.
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 12:30pm-1:30pm
China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China’s history can help us better understand state building.
Thu, 02/23/2023 - 11:00am-12:30pm
Please join us for a 2-hours seminar by Professors Jingqiu Chen and XInxin Li from Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 12pm-2pm, Feb. 21, Janice Levin Building. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Work and Employment and HRM department.
Tue, 02/21/2023, 12pm - 2pm
In this presentation, Professor Yu Xie first documents a sharp rise in economic inequality in contemporary China. He then presents results from his research program on the impact of rising economic inequality on a variety of social and demographic outcomes in China: intergenerational mobility, marriage age, marriage partner choice, fertility, and mortality.
Thu, 02/16/2023 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
Ginny Doellgast and Ian Greer (Cornell University) will present on their recent books: Exit, Voice, and Solidarity (Doellgast) and Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy: Autonomy and Automation (Greer).
Thu, 2/02/23 - 10:00am-12:00pm
How to retain and engage employees in the post-pandemic world has recently caught wide public attention in many countries. Three speakers of this forum, Robert Ployhart (University of South Carolina), Chris Rowley (University of Oxford), and Ingo Weller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), will share their insights on this issue focusing on the situations in the US, the UK, and Germany.
Mon, 11/28/22 - 10:30am-12:00pm
Online
The Center for Global Work and Employment, the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN), and the Center for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University hosted a discussion on the Just Transition Listening Project (JTLP)’s 2021 report Workers and Communities in Transition.
Mon, 05/02/2022 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
