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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
63
Citations
14342
World Ranking
704
National Ranking
80

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  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Jill Rubery is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research activity is positioned within the broad domain of social sciences, with a focus on various interconnected subfields including sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, public administration, and gender studies.

Their scholarly writing addresses multiple topics, prominently featuring employment and welfare studies, digital economy and work transformation, labor movements and unions, social policy and reform studies, work-family balance challenges, gender diversity and inequality, and workplace health and well-being.

Rubery has contributed to several academic journals frequently, with multiple publications in the Industrial Relations Journal and Gender Work and Organization. Other common venues for their work include the Human Resource Management Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and Revue internationale du Travail.

Their research collaboration network involves recurrent co-authorships with scholars such as Grace Gao, David Knights, Deborah Kerfoot, Patricia Lewis, and Ida Sabelis.

Recent notable papers include:

  • The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers' Mental Health at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study, 2022, Journal of Social Policy
  • Raising the bar? The impact of the UNISON ethical care campaign in UK domiciliary care, 2021, Transfer European Review of Labour and Research
  • Gender pay equity: Exploring the impact of formal, consistent and transparent human resource management practices and information, 2020, Human Resource Management Journal
  • A case of employers never letting a good crisis go to waste? An investigation of how work becomes even more precarious for hourly paid workers under Covid, 2021, Industrial Relations Journal
  • Fragmenting work: Theoretical contributions and insights for a future of work research and policy agenda, 2022, Human Resource Management Journal

Best Publications

  • Women's Employment in Europe: Trends and Prospects

    Jill Rubery;Mark Smith;Colette Fagan

  • Structured labour markets, worker organisation and low pay

    Jill Rubery

  • Fragmenting work: blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies

    Mick Marchington;Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery;Hugh Willmott

  • Women and Austerity: The Economic Crisis and the Future for Gender Equality

    Maria Karamessini;Jill Rubery

  • The Organisation of Employment: An International Perspective

    J. Rubery;Damian Grimshaw

  • Feminist fallacies: a reply to Hakim on women's employment.

    Ginn J;Arber S;Brannen J;Dale A

  • Women and European Employment

    Jill Rubery

  • CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP

    Jill Rubery;Jill Earnshaw;Mick Marchington;Fang Lee Cooke

  • Challenges and contradictions in the ‘normalising’ of precarious work

    Jill Rubery;Damian Grimshaw;Arjan Keizer;Mathew Johnson

  • Women and recession revisited

    Jill Rubery;Anthony Rafferty

  • The reconstruction of the supply side of the labour market: the relative autonomy of social reproduction

    Jane Humphries;Jill Rubery

  • National Working-Time Regimes and Equal Opportunities

    Jill Rubery;Mark Smith;Colette Fagan

  • Organisations and the Transformation of the Internal Labour Market

    Damian Grimshaw;Kevin G. Ward;Jill Rubery;Huw Beynon

  • Managing Employment Change: The New Realities of Work

    Huw Beynon;Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery;Kevin Ward

  • Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in the EU: the impact of the EU employment strategy

    Jill Rubery

  • How to Close the Gender Pay Gap in Europe: towards the gender mainstreaming of pay policy

    Jill Rubery;Damian Grimshaw;Hugo Figueiredo

  • Employer strategy and the labour market

    J. Rubery;Frank Wilkinson

  • Working Time, Industrial Relations and the Employment Relationship

    Jill Rubery;Kevin Ward;Damian Grimshaw;Huw Beynon

  • Dilemmas in the management of temporary work agency staff

    Kevin Ward;Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery;Huw Beynon

  • Integrating the Internal and External Labour Markets

    Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery

  • Gender Segregation in Societal Context

    Jill Rubery;Colette Fagan

Frequent Co-Authors

Damian Grimshaw
Damian Grimshaw King's College London
Colette Fagan
Colette Fagan University of Manchester
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Debra Howcroft
Debra Howcroft University of Manchester
John Hassard
John Hassard University of Manchester
Shirley Dex
Shirley Dex University College London
Sara Arber
Sara Arber University of Surrey
Jonathan Gershuny
Jonathan Gershuny University College London
Peter Moss
Peter Moss University College London
Simon Deakin
Simon Deakin University of Cambridge

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