The Institute for Compensation Studies™ (ICS) at Cornell University's ILR School is an interdisciplinary center that researches, teaches and communicates about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work, and how these rewards influence outcomes for individuals, companies, industries, and economies.
Research and Insights
Research and Insights
How could the return of Trump-era “Schedule F” job appointments reshape the federal workforce?
Marketplace
“As commissioner, I saw no number before it was final,” said Erica Groshen, BLS commissioner from 2013 until 2017. “There were a lot of limitations on what I could see. And I was happy with that.”
The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
Prof Jessi Streib will speak on her new book Friday, September 6 on findings that show career pay equity in some populations that buck assumptions about student resources coming in to college.
Trump's social media company gains in its first day of trading on Nasdaq
AP News
“Like any meme stock or fad, as long as there’s a greater fool to buy you out for what you paid for it, than you can continue to prosper,” said Brian Dunn of ILR's Institute of Compensation Studies.
Is Truth Social really worth billions? Financial experts weigh in on Trump’s media site
The Miami Herald
“It’d be hard to see why a rational investor would want to invest in this company,” says Brian Dunn, referring to Truth Social, of ILR's Institute for Compensation Studies
Incentives can lead employees to cheat or lie at work
The Washington Post
Workplace incentives “can be a cure as well as a poison,” according to Tae-Youn Park, lead author on research published in the Academy of Management Annals that explores how incentive programs can unintentionally encourage bad behavior at work.
