Hye Jin Rho

I'm an industrial relations scholar and an assistant professor at the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. My research examines how new technologies, organizational practices, and evolving employment arrangements are reshaping work and workers' experiences — and what these changes mean for inequality, worker well-being, and power in the workplace.

My work is organized around two interconnected themes: the proliferation of algorithmic management and digital technologies that reshape how work is organized and governed; and evolving organizational practices and employment arrangements that structure workers' access to jobs, their ability to exercise voice, and the distribution of rewards.

I use both quantitative and qualitative methods, drawing on proprietary firm-level datasets, original surveys, interviews, field experiments, and restricted U.S. Census data.

I received my PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management with the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and an Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vox, CBS News, MIT Technology Review, and cited in a U.S. Senate briefing, among others.