Past Events

Learn about career paths in HR & hear life stories from senior leaders via a panel discussion after networking!

Join the Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER) department for our upcoming In-Person Open House to learn more about our undergraduate and master’s degree options, along with our 5-year program! Free pizza will be provided!

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.

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.

Interested in learning about pathways and careers related to earning a PhD? Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) is hosting a virtual open house this Monday, October 27th! Join us to learn about our Human Resource Management concentration, careers in academia, and the admissions process.

Join us on campus at Rutgers for an Open House to learn about the major/minor in Human Resource Management (HRM) and the master's program (MHRM), along with HRM Honors and Study Abroad options!

We welcome SMLR students from every background to join us for our Diwali party! Let’s celebrate the festival of lights together with free food, activities & a fashion show!

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.

The School of Management & Labor Relations is hosting a Fall 2025 Networking & Recruiting Event! Explore exciting jobs, internships, or just practice networking with recruiters? We encourage all SMLR undergraduate and graduate students, and alums to attend this event! Come meet with employers to learn about opportunities at these various organizations.

This talk introduces an important theory in evolutionary biology: the r/K strategy theory.