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Eileen Appelbaum is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC, and Fellow at Rutgers University Center for Women and Work. Prior to joining CEPR, she held positions as Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University and as Professor of Economics at Temple University. She is past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association and served on the Board of the Industry Studies Association. Her current research focuses on the financialization of hospitals and health systems and she has published widely on this topic.

Dr. Appelbaum has a long-standing interest in domestic outsourcing. Relevant publications include Domestic Outsourcing in the U.S.: A Research Agenda to Assess Trends and Effects on Job Quality (with Annette Bernhardt, Rosemary Batt, and Susan Houseman),  Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality, and “The Networked Organization: Implications for Jobs and Inequality,” also with Rosemary Batt, in Making Work More Equal (D. Grimshaw et al.)

Andrea Atencio is a labor economist pursuing an Economics PhD at the University of Illinois (UIUC). Before joining the University of Illinois, she worked in the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. At these institutions, Atencio’s research mostly focused on the implications of legal and social institutions on the gender wage gap in countries over the whole spectrum of development.

More recently, Atencio has studied the role of domestic outsourcing on the decline of labor fluidity that the U.S. has experienced in the last few decades. In particular, she has quantified how much of the observed drop in worker reallocations can be attributed to domestic outsourcing; this research adds labor fluidity indicators to the list of measurement issues which we can incur for not accounting for outsourced workers. Her current research focuses on how domestic outsourcing has altered the labor market structure and the mechanisms behind these changes. Atencio’s other research investigates labor market frictions in developing economies and the relationship between recruitment effort, firm growth and aggregate productivity.

Kate Bahn is the director of labor market policy and economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her areas of research include gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market, care work, and monopsonistic labor markets. Previously, she was an Economist at the Center for American Progress. Bahn also serves as the executive vice president and secretary for the International Association for Feminist Economics. She has published popular economics writing for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, and Newsweek, as well as scholarly research published in Feminist Economics and Gender, Work & Organization. Bahn received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. from Hampshire College.

Rosemary Batt is the Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work at the ILR School, Cornell University. She is a Professor in Human Resource Studies and International and Comparative Labor and editor of the School’s flagship journal, the ILR Review. Her research focuses on global and comparative international studies of management and employment relations. In 2019 she was awarded a grant from the Sloan Foundation to research the effect of franchising on the labor market outcomes of managers and frontline employees, including the outsourcing and subcontracting of work.

She was a coordinator of the Global Call Center Project. See The Globalization of Service Work: Comparative Institutional Perspectives on Call Centers: Introduction to a Special Issue of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review to read some of her findings.  She has written extensively on the effect that human resource practices and employment relations have on organizational performance, the quality of jobs, and wage and employment outcomes.

Along with Annette Bernhardt, Susan N. Houseman, and Eileen Appelbaum, she co-authored the Upjohn Institute working paper, Domestic Outsourcing in the United States: A Research Agenda to Assess Trends and Effects on Job Quality.

Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation.  His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity. His book, Work in the New Economy, focuses on the role of flexible labor in Silicon Valley.  He has authored or co-authored five other books (most recently Equity, Growth and Community) and more than 70 journal articles, chapters, and research reports.  He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

Nick Bloom is the William E. Eberle Professor of Economics in the department of economics at Stanford University and Professor, by courtesy, at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He is also the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Professor Bloom’s research focuses on measuring and explaining management practices.  His publication, Inequality and the disappearing large firm wage premium, reflects on the impact that outsourcing may be having on the size and wages of companies.

He has been working with McKinsey & Company as part of a long-run effort to collect management data from over 10,000 firms across industries and countries. The aim is to build an empirical basis for understanding what factors drive differences in management practices across regions, industries, and countries, and how this determines firm and national performance.

Françoise Carré is Research Director of the Center for Social Policy (CSP) at University of Massachusetts Boston.  Her policy relevant work includes studies of retail employment, community-based job brokers in the U.S., and research on international statistics and representation issues for informal workers in developing and developed countries.

Françoise has edited numerous publications, including The Informal Economy Revisited, an open-access book, and Nonstandard Work, a research volume for the Labor and Employment Research Association. She is co-author of Where Bad Jobs Are Better:  Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies, with Chris Tilly.

Currently, she studies the outsourcing of technology adoption and implementation in store-based retail (with C. Tilly).  Another current project is a multi-year collaboration about cross-national statistics on informal work and organizations of informal workers with the global research and policy network WIEGO.

Her research has been funded by the C. S. Mott Foundation, Ford Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the Gould Foundation for the Paris School of Economics, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Aixa Cintrón-Vélez is Program Director at the Russell Sage Foundation, where she manages the scientific portfolio for the Future of Work program and for the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration program. She has been instrumental in supporting a research agenda that focuses, among other subjects, on the outsourcing of work and the rise in contingent employment.

Before joining Russell Sage, she was a Research Associate at the Center for Hispanic Mental Health Research, taught in the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Welfare Policy from the University of Michigan.

Juan De Lara is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at The University of Southern California.  His research focuses on the intersections of race, the economy, and social movements. His book, Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Inland Southern California, uses global logistics and commodity chains to show how technological innovations and just-in-time business strategies produced new labor regimes that facilitated a more complex and extended system of global production, distribution, and consumption. He has authored several academic articles and policy papers on the warehouse and logistics sectors, including the co-authored Organizing Temporary, Subcontracted, and Immigrant Workers, a case study that focuses on outsourced labor in Southern California.

De Lara holds a Ph.D. in Geography from, UC Berkeley and an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA.  His undergraduate degree is in Sociology and Labor Studies from Pitzer College.

Pieter De Vlieger is an economist at Uber and previously obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. His research agenda centers on topics in labor and health economics, with a particular interest in how domestic outsourcing decisions affect labor market outcomes, and how physician incentives affect provision and quality of healthcare services. He studied Business Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and obtained an MSc in Economics from University College London. 

Todd Dickey is an assistant professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  His research interests are in the fields of public sector human resource management, labor and employment relations, and workplace conflict management.  See his Washington Post editorial, How can the government expect people to work without pay indefinitely?

Todd's current projects explore organizational systems for addressing workplace conflict as well as innovation and change in federal sector civil service institutions and labor relations. 

He holds a Ph.D. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, an M.A. in political science from Syracuse University, and a B.A. from Vassar College.

Adam Seth Litwin is Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History in the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) School at Cornell University and serves as an associate editor at the ILR Review.  His research examines technological change and the determinants and impact of labor relations structures.  Litwin also writes on issues involving technological change, work, and workers in the healthcare sector.  His publication, “Superbugs vs. Outsourced Cleaners: Employment Arrangements and the Spread of Health Care–Associated Infections,” is particularly relevant to the COVID pandemic. Prior to joining the ILR faculty, Litwin was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, where he held appointments in the Carey Business School and the School of Medicine. 

In the 2021 academic year, Litwin will serve as the J. William Fulbright Visiting Professor of Work and Organizational studies at the University of Sydney to study the impact of technological change on work and workers across Australia.  He has been honored by the Aspen Institute, the Sloan Foundation, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

Lawrence Mishel is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) after serving as president from 2002–2017. Mishel first joined EPI in 1987 as Director of Research. His leadership has helped build it into one of the nation’s premier research organization focused on U.S. living standards and labor markets.

Mishel’s primary research interests include labor markets, industrial relations, productivity, income distribution and education. Mishel has co-authored all 12 editions of The State of Working America, an analysis of all aspects of the U.S. labor market published by EPI from 1988 to 2012.  He is author of the EPI report  “Contingent Worker Survey is further evidence that we are not becoming a nation of freelancers,” and co-author of “Uber Drivers Are Not Entrepreneurs.”

Prior to joining EPI, Mishel was a professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and an economist for various unions: AFSCME, the Steelworkers, Auto Workers and the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO. Mishel holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.