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Paul Osterman

Paul Osterman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
11945
World Ranking
5788
National Ranking
2745

Paul Osterman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul Osterman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 127 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Paul Osterman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul Osterman sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Paul Osterman is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences, health professions, and economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research spans several subfields including general health professions, economics and econometrics, public administration, demography, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered in their work include employment and welfare studies, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, labor movements and unions, retirement, disability, and employment, as well as the digital economy and work transformation.

Paul Osterman's recent publications have appeared predominantly in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review. These works include:

  • How American Adults Obtain Work Skills: Results of a New National Survey (2021), Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • A Forum on the Politics of Skills (2022), Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • Contract Employment: Measurement and Implications for Employer-Employee Relationships (2022), Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • Reconsidering Occupational Internal Labor Markets: Incidence and Consequences (2024), Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • Book Review: Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Is Bad for Business and Employees. By Peter Cappelli (2024), Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Their frequent coauthors include Nichola Lowe, Bridget Anderson, Joe William Trotter, Natasha Iskander, and Rina Agarwala.

Best Publications

  • How Common is Workplace Transformation and Who Adopts it

    Paul Osterman

  • The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government

    Linda Markowitz;Thomas A. Kochan;Paul Osterman

  • Change at Work

    Peter Cappelli;Laurie Bassi;Harry Katz;David Knoke

  • Work Reorganization in an Era of Restructuring: Trends in Diffusion and Effects on Employee Welfare

    Paul Osterman

  • Work Family Programs and the Employment Relationship

    Paul Osterman

  • Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy

    Paul Osterman

  • Choice of Employment Systems in Internal Labor Markets

    Paul Osterman

  • Skill, Training, and Work Organization in American Establishments

    Paul Osterman

  • Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It

    Paul Osterman

  • An Empirical Study of Labor Market Segmentation

    Paul Osterman

  • Broken ladders : managerial careers in the new economy

    Michael B. Arthur;Paul Osterman

  • THE WAGE EFFECTS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE WORK ORGANIZATION IN MANUFACTURING

    Paul Osterman

  • Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market

    Paul Osterman;Thomas A. Kochan;Richard M. Locke;Michael J. Piore

  • Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market

    Paul Osterman

  • The Impact of Computers on the Employment of Clerks and Managers

    Paul Osterman

  • Internal Labor Markets

    Paul Osterman

  • Overcoming Oligarchy: Culture and Agency in Social Movement Organizations

    Paul Osterman

  • Supervision, discretion, and work organization

    Paul Osterman

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Job Quality: What Does It Mean and How Might We Think about It?

    Paul Osterman

  • In Search of the High Road: Meaning and Evidence:

    Paul Osterman

  • Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism.

    Paul Osterman;Michael Burawoy

  • Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market

    Craig V. D. Thornton;Paul Osterman

  • Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy.

    Susan N. Houseman;Paul Osterman

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Cappelli
Peter Cappelli University of Pennsylvania
David Card
David Card University of California, Berkeley
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
Finis Welch
Finis Welch Texas A&M University
Alan B. Krueger
Alan B. Krueger Princeton University
Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley
Michael B. Arthur
Michael B. Arthur Suffolk University

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