Linda Barrington

Linda Barrington is the Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research in the ILR School at Cornell University. She is also the Executive Director of the Institute for Compensation Studies (ICS), an interdisciplinary initiative in that analyzes, teaches, and communicates broadly about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work. Barrington comes to the ILR School from The Conference Board, a global business membership and research organization. There, she held several positions over the past 10 years, including economist, special assistant to the CEO, research director, and most recently Managing Director of Human Capital. Prior to The Conference Board, Barrington was on the economics faculty at Barnard College of Columbia University. While on faculty at Barnard College, she published several articles on gender economics, poverty measurement and economic history. She has also taught at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, and a B.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Research Statement

Throughout her career, Barrington has completed research on global living standards, the working poor, gender and poverty, new workforce entrants, CEO perceptions of their top challenges, and executive compensation. She has published academic articles in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic History, and the Historical Statistics of the U.S. Her work also appears in numerous business/practitioner reports published by The Conference Board, including research projects assessing trends in CEO challenges, top executive compensation, and issues surrounding workforce demographics, productivity, and wellness. She is co-author of Employment and Work: Key Issues and Future Directions-The SAGE Reference Series on Disability. She is also editor and contributing author to The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American Economic History. Barrington has received underwriting for her research from various sources, including the Atlantic Philanthropies, Rockefeller Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and most recently the U.S. Department of Education''s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Barrington has presented expert opinion related to gender pay gaps to state-level policy panels. She has appeared on CNN, NBC Nightly News, as well as CNBC and Bloomberg, and has been a frequent contributor on economic issues to All Things Considered and Marketplace, in addition to other NPR programming.

Publications

Journal Articles

• Kevin Hallock, Xin Jin, Linda Barrington. 2014. Employer practices in improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities: A trans-disciplinary and employer-inclusive research approach, Rehabilitation Research, Policy and Education: Journal of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education . 28(4):264-290.
• Linda Barrington, Susanne Marie Bruyere, Margaret Waelder. 2014. Employer practices in improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities: A trans-disciplinary and employer-inclusive research approach, Rehabilitation Research, Policy and Education: Journal of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education . 28(4):208-224.
• Linda Barrington, Susanne Marie Bruyere, Margaret Waelder. 2014. Employer practices in improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities: A trans-disciplinary and employer-inclusive research approach, Rehabilitation Research, Policy and Education: Journal of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education . 28(4):208-224.
• Linda Barrington, Kevin Hallock. 2013. "Can Compensation Design Issues Be Resolved Better by Having Organizations and Academics Combine Forces?", WorldatWork Journal . 22(2).
• Harris Allen, Christopher Woock, Linda Barrington, William Bunn. 2008. "Age, Overtime, and Employee Health, Safety and Productivity Outcomes: A Case Study", Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine . 50(8):873-894.
• Linda Barrington. 1997. "Estimating Earnings Poverty in 1939: A Comparison of Orshansky Method and Price Indexed Definitions of Poverty, Review of Economics and Statistics . LXXIX(3):406-414.
• Linda Barrington. 1996. Race and Earnings Poverty, 1939-1959: A Refined Classification and Potential Measurement Bias, Essays in Economic and Business History . XIV
• Linda Barrington. 1994. "At What Cost a Room of Her Own? Factors Contributing to the Feminization of Poverty Among Prime-Aged Women, 1939-1959", Journal of Economic History . 54(2):342-357.

Books

• Susanne Marie Bruyere, Linda Barrington. 2012. Sage Reference Series on Disability: Vol 3- Employment and Work. Thousand Oaks, CA, United States: Sage Publications, 2012.

Book Chapters

• Linda Barrington. 2015. Engaging employers as stakeholders in the research process. in A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Effective Employer Practices for Enhancing Employment Outcomes for Individuals with Disabilities. ILR Press, 2015. Susanne Bruyere. (Revising to Resubmit)
• William Erickson, Sarah von Schrader, Susanne Marie Bruyere, Linda Barrington. 2012. Chapter 5 Annotated Data, Statistics, Tables, and Graphs. in Employment and Work. Sage, 2012. S. Bruyere and L. Barrington. (40)
• Linda Barrington, Gordon Fisher. 2006. Poverty in Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. in Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Linda Barrington. 1999. Editor’s Introduction: Native Americans and U.S. Economic History. in The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History. Westview Press , 1999. Linda Barrington.
• Linda Barrington. 1998. The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History. Boulder, CO, United States: Westview Press , 1998. Joel Mokyr and Robert Margo. (320 Pages)

Book Reviews

• Linda Barrington. 2014. “Book Review: People with Disabilities - Sidelined or Mainstreamed? By Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, and Peter Blanck,” ILR Review. ILR Review, 2014. (793-794)

Professional Activities

• TSR, Executive Compensation, and Firm Performance. Presented to University of St Andrews. St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK. 2016.
• Prepared comments to the: New York State Standing Committee on Labor on proposed minimum wage increase. Presented to New York State . Albany, NY. 2016.
• The Gender Wage Gap: Where to from Here?. Presented to The Conference Board of Canada. Toronto, ON. 2015.
• Gender Pay Equity Analytics - A Case Study of a Large Multinational Organization. Presented to ILR and Cornell’s Institute for Social Sciences. New York, NY. 2015.
• Honoring the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act . Presented to University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the EEOC. Washington, D.C.. 2015.
• Prepared comment to the: New York State Senate Task Force on Workforce Development. Presented to New York State Legislation . Albany, NY. 2015.
• Presented to New York State Standing Committee on Labor. Albany, NY. 2015.
• Inequality. Presented to Center for European Policy Studies, organised in cooperation with the Latvian Presidency of the EU. Brussels. 2015.
• Are the Skill Needs for Innovation Changing?. Presented to Socio-economic Sciences & Humanities, European Commission – European Research Area; Seventh Framework Programme. Brussels. 2014.
• The Optics of Executive Compensation. Presented to ILR. New York, NY. 2014.
• Presented to The Conference Board. online. 2014.
• Pay Equity: What President Obama''s New Executive Order Means for You and Your Employees. Presented to Kenexa. online. 2014.
• Pay Equity: Understanding the Relationship Between Pay Transparency, Compensation Communications and Perceptions. Presented to BLR. online. 2014.
• Employer Practices Research to Inform Disability Policy and Workplace Practice: Drawing from Diverse Data Sources and Analytical Approaches. Alexandria Virginia. 2014.
• Improving Employment Outcomes for Persons with Disabilities: What Employers Can Tell Us. Presented to National Association for Rehabilitation Research and Training. Bethesda, MD. 2011.

Areas of Expertise

• Compensation and Employee Benefits
• Diversity and Inclusion
  
• Human capital measurement
• Labor force composition and market trends