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Pat Simpson
Title: Associate Professor
Office #: 410 - 1 East Pearson
Phone: 312-915-6611
E-mail: psimpso@luc.edu


Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois
  • M.A. Labor History, University of Pittsburgh
  • B.A. History and Philosophy, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Research Interests

  • Social stratification and labor markets
  • Standards and norms of organizational justice
  • Labor market status of older workers
  • Contract administration and union steward power

Professional Associations

  • Member, National Industrial Relations Research Association
  • Member, Chicago Chapter, Industrial Relations Research Association
  • Member, Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution
  • Member, International Association of Feminist Economists
  • Member, American Sociological Association
  • Member, American Association of University Professors
  • Board Member, Chicago Chapter, Industrial Relations Research Association

Courses Taught

  • HRIR 404: Human Capital Economics
  • HRIR 406: History of Work in America
  • HRIR 462: Labor Management Relations
  • HRIR 465: Global Industrial Relations
  • HRIR 493: Collective Bargaining

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Women, Organizational Justice, and Union Organizing,� Employee Rights and Responsibilities.," Employee Rights and Responsibilities, 2007 , Co-Authors: Simpson, P. and Kaminski, M.
"Distributive Justice Revisited: A Reconceptualization and Empirical Test," Journal of Labor Research, 27: 237-262. 2006 , Co-Authors: Simpson, P. A., and Varma, A.

"The Aging Population and Social Security: Women as the Problem and as the Solution. ," Challenge, 49: 105-119 2006 , Co-Authors: Ferber, M. F., Simpson, P. A., and Rouillon, V.

"Rising Income Inequality in a Time of Plenty: The Influence of Micor-Justice Standards and Group Membership on Macro-Justice Perceptions," Employee Rights and Responsibilities, Vol. 17, No. 1, 47-61 2004 , Co-Authors: M. Kaminski

"Gender Differences in the Content and Effects of Emotional Labor in Managerial Jobs," Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 89, No. 4, 715-721 2004 , Co-Authors: L. K. Stroh

""Is There a Technology Wage Gap? Associations Among Age, Skills, and Compensation"," Internatonal Journal of Selection and Assessment, 11: 141-149. 2004 , Co-Authors: E. L. Perry, O. NicDomhnaill, and D. Siegel

""The Effects of Age Group, Technology, and Social Policy on Adult Women's Training Participation"," The Sociology of Job Training, Research in the Sociology of Work, 12, 287-318 2004 , Co-Authors: L. K. Stroh

""Win Some" Lose Some: Women's Status in the Field of Human Resources in the 19990's"," Women in Management Review, 18: 191-198 2004 , Co-Authors: D. Lenior

"Revisiting Gender Variation in Training," Feminist Economics, 2002 , Co-Authors: L. K. Stroh

"Variation in Human Capital Investment Activity by Age," Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2002 , Co-Authors: M. M. Greller, L. K. Stroh

"Skills Shifts and Black Male joblessness in Major Urban Labor Markets," Social Science Research, 2000

"In Search of Late Career: A Review of Contemporary Social Science Research Applicable to the Understanding of Late Career," Human Resource Management Review, 1999 , Co-Authors: M.M. Greller

"Continuing Progress? Trends in Occupational Segragation in the United States Over the 1970�s and 1980's," Feminist Economics, 1998 , Co-Authors: F. Blau, P.A.


PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Women, Organizational Justice, and Union Organizing," Association of Employment Policies and Practices, Oct. 6-8 2006, Co-presenting: Simpson, P. and Kaminski

"Social Security Reform: A Literature Review with Inernational Data," 13th Annual Conference on Feminist Economics; International Association of Feminist Economics, Aug. 6, 2004, Co-presenting: Marianne F. Ferber and Vanessa Rouillon

"The Aging Population and Social Secruity: Must We Destory Social Security to Save It?," University of Illinois Labor Economics Workshop Series, Sept. 2004, Co-presenting: Marianne F. Ferber and Vanessa Rouillon

"Is There a Technology Wage Gap? Associations Among Age, Skills, and Compensation," SIOP, April 28-30 2002, Co-presenting: E. L. Perry, P. A. NicDomhnaill, D. Siegel

"Organizing Women: What Works and What Doesn't?," Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association, Jan. 4-6 2002 , Co-presenting: M. Kaminski

"Human Resources in the New Millennium: The Case for Extending the Work Life of Older Adults," Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, Polish-American Center for Resolution of Labor-Management Disputes, 2001

"Unionists' Reactions to Rising Wage Inequality: The Relationship Between Microjustice and Macrojustice Revisited," Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association, 2001 , Co-presenting: M. Kaminski

"Age and Gender Variation in Post-School Training," Annual Meeting, Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 16-17 2001 , Co-presenting: L. K. Stroh

"Distributive Justice: A New Dimension?," Annual Meeting, SIOP, April 27-29 2001 , Co-presenting: A. Varma

"Unionists' Reactions to Rising Wage Inequality: The Relationship Between Microjustice and Macrojustice Revisited," Labor Unions Refereed Papers Competition. Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association, January 4-7 2001 , Co-presenting: M. Kaminski

"Skills Shifts and Changes in Racial Labor Market Allocation Over the 1980�s," Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association, 2000

"Revisiting Gender Variation in Post-School Human Capital Investment," Women and Education Referred Roundtable. Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, August 12-16 2000 , Co-presenting: L. K. Stroh

"Are Women Training More," Women, Capital, and Labor Section, 10th Annual Women and Society Conference, June 9-11 2000

"Age and Technology: A Comparison of Computer Use Among Older and Younger Workers," Annual Meeting, American Psychological Society, June 10-12 2000 , Co-presenting: E. L. Perry

"Skills Shifts and Changes in Racial Labor Market Allocation Over the 1980�s," Labor Markets Refereed Papers Competition, Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association, January 7-10 2000

"Skills Shifts and Changes in Racial Labor Market Allocation Over the 1980�s," Labor Markets Regular Session, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, August 6-8 1999

"Skills Shifts and Black Male Joblessness in Urban Labor Markets Over the 1980's," Labor Markets Roundtable, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 13-16 1998


CONTRIBUTIONS OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Older Worker Training" ," P. A. Beatty and R. Visser eds., Managing an Aging Work Force, (Melbourne, FL: Krieger Publishing), 2004

"Shattering the Glass Ceiling in the New Millennium," F. Crosby and P. Stockdale eds., (Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity, (Sage Publications), Thousand Oaks, CA 2002 , Co-Authors: L. K. Stroh, C. Langlands,

"A Human Capital Approach to Worklife Vitality," W. J. A. Goedhard eds., (Healthy and Productive Aging of Older Workers, (ICOH Scientific Committee), The Hague, NL 2000


BOOK REVIEWS
Alisa McKay, "Review of The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and a Citizens� Basic Income ," Feminist Economics, 2007 , Co-Authors: Simpson, P.

Harish C. Jain, Peter J. Slaone, and Frank M. Horowitz, "Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison," Human Resource Management, Vol. 43, Nos. 2 & 3, 281-283 2005

Research in Progress

Title: Health Care and Colllective Bargaining
Area of Research: Analysis of direct and indirect costs of work stoppages associated with disputes over employee health care provision.
Collaborators: Simpson, P. A.

Title: Public Pension Reform and Elderly Poverty in the European Union
Area of Research: Analyes the impact of public pension reform and increases in elderly poverty in European Union states.
Collaborators: Simpson, P. A., Ferber, M. F., and Brun, M

Title: To What Effect Innovation?
Area of Research: Revise and resubmit to a refereed journal, Human Resource Management
Collaborators: Pichler, S., and Simpson, P. A.