2026 Paul Osterman: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	38	5789	5374	2745	2503	127	11945

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

5789

5374

2745

2503

127

11945

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

11945

World Ranking

5789

National Ranking

2745

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

2270
Citations
The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government

Linda Markowitz;Thomas A. Kochan;Paul Osterman

1483
Citations
Change at Work

Peter Cappelli;Laurie Bassi;Harry Katz;David Knoke

1140
Citations
Work Reorganization in an Era of Restructuring: Trends in Diffusion and Effects on Employee Welfare

Paul Osterman

980
Citations
Work Family Programs and the Employment Relationship

Paul Osterman

700
Citations
Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy

Paul Osterman

559
Citations
Choice of Employment Systems in Internal Labor Markets

Paul Osterman

461
Citations
Skill, Training, and Work Organization in American Establishments

Paul Osterman

337
Citations
Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It

Paul Osterman

309
Citations
An Empirical Study of Labor Market Segmentation

Paul Osterman

255
Citations
Broken ladders : managerial careers in the new economy

Michael B. Arthur;Paul Osterman

193
Citations
THE WAGE EFFECTS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE WORK ORGANIZATION IN MANUFACTURING

Paul Osterman

189
Citations
Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market

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

188
Citations
Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market

Paul Osterman

166
Citations
The Impact of Computers on the Employment of Clerks and Managers

Paul Osterman

150
Citations
Internal Labor Markets

Paul Osterman

125
Citations
Overcoming Oligarchy: Culture and Agency in Social Movement Organizations

Paul Osterman

120
Citations
Supervision, discretion, and work organization

Paul Osterman

119
Citations
Introduction to the Special Issue on Job Quality: What Does It Mean and How Might We Think about It?

Paul Osterman

115
Citations
In Search of the High Road: Meaning and Evidence:

Paul Osterman

87
Citations
Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism.

Paul Osterman;Michael Burawoy

63
Citations
Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market

Craig V. D. Thornton;Paul Osterman

2
Citations
Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy.

Susan N. Houseman;Paul Osterman

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Arthur Suffolk University

Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley

Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External Links

Personal website of Paul Osterman Google Scholar page

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