About this IRC® + IRC4HR® Project
Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) supports IRC4HR’s mission to “advance the knowledge and practice of human relations in the workplace” by furthering our understanding of the world of work, labor, and employment. This is accomplished through multi-disciplinary research to address challenging questions that have an impact on employment relations, human resources, labor, business, workers, economics, law and policy, organizational behavior, and many other aspects of working life.
Funded by a philanthropic gift, the ILR Future of Work Fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students who work with Cornell’s world-leading faculty on innovative and impactful research projects. Fellowships are awarded to faculty and units at ILR to allow them to hire the very best early-career researchers in their fields.
The fellowship program is designed to promote the benefits of strong collaboration between newer researchers and resident faculty members in studying impactful topics related to the future of work. The Fellows benefit directly from engagement and mentoring from the ILR faculty members they work with, establishing a track record and path to future career success. Faculty benefit from the work of the Fellows in advancing their research projects and opening up new opportunities and innovations through collaborations with these early career academics.
IRC4HR is proud to have established a three-year annual award that will further support one Future of Work Fellow each year by providing funds for experiments, surveys, and research tools, and to engage undergraduates as research assistants, which will lead to greater research productivity, while also enhancing the education of students through collaboration with the Fellow and ILR faculty.
The first Fellow to receive the annual funds from IRC4HR is Bart de Koning. Bart has been named a Future of Work Fellow by the ILR Labor Dynamics Institute, where his main task will be to create an experimental job search platform, targeting job seekers in occupations that are threatened by automation. He will work under the supervision of Michèle Belot, Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, and Philipp Kircher, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations.
The majority of de Koning’s research focuses on the role of expectations and information in human capital investments and labor supply decisions.He recently earned his doctorate from the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University and received both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Please check back here mid-2024 for news about Bart’s research or you can receive updates from IRC4HR by providing your name and email address.
Researchers
Michèle Belot
Michèle is the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). She is the Director of the Labor Dynamics Institute at Cornell and President of the European Association of Labour Economists. Prior to joining Cornell, Professor Belot was Professor at European University Institute and the University of Edinburgh School of Economics.
Philipp Kircher
Philipp is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and Honorary Professorial Fellow at University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining Cornell, Professor Kircher was Professor at European University Institute and the University of Edinburgh School of Economics.
Bart de Koning
Bart is a Future of Work Fellow at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). He recently earned his doctorate from the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University and received both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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