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Peter Norlander

Associate Professor of Management

Peter Norlander is a nationally recognized expert on gig work, guest worker programs, labor mobility, and methods for mining the text of labor market documents to improve data and knowledge about work. He leads the Quinlan school's social impact initiative, strengthening Chicago's business support ecosystem to level the playing field for underserved businesses. He teaches courses on employment relations, business consulting, negotiation and conflict management, managing and motivating in the workplace, and global and comparative employment relations. 

Education

  • PhD Management and Organizations, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA
  • BS Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, NY

Research Interests

Professional Employment

  • Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Data Econometrics Algorithms and Learning (IDEAL), 2024-present
  • Global Labor Organization, Fellow, 2018-present
  • Postdoctoral scholar and instructor, Research Design and Applications for Data Analysis, Online Masters of Information and Data Science program, University of California, Berkeley School of Information 2014-2015
  • Teaching Assistant, Negotiations, Human Resources Management, Social Network Analysis, Leadership Foundations, Interpersonal, Group and Cultural Dynamics at Work, MBA, Part-Time MBA, Global Executive Latin America and Asia MBA programs, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2009-2014.

Professional/Community Affiliations

  • Labor and Employee Relations Association Chicago Chapter
  • Academy of Management

Courses Taught

  • HRER 311: Employment Relations
  • ACJL 350: Conflict Management and Negotiations 
  • HRER 502: Global and Comparative Employment Relations
  • HRER 417B: Managing and Motivating in the Workplace 
  • Business Consulting

Publications/Research Listings

Refereed Journal Articles

'Meisenbacher, S., Nestorov, S., & Norlander, P. (2025) “Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data” Washington Center for Equitable Growth Working Paper.: https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/extracting-onet-features-from-the-nlx-corpus-to-build-public-use-aggregate-labor-market-data/
Github: https://github.com/Job-Ad-Research-at-QSB-LUC/JAAT
HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/loyoladatamining
Atz, U., Eliason, B., Norlander, P., Pinto, S., & Steinbaum, M. (2025). The Balance of Power in Franchising. Working Paper. https://marshallsteinbaum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/balance_of_power_in_franchising_10-19-25.pdf
Norlander, P. (2024), "New Evidence on Employee Noncompete, No Poach, and No Hire Agreements in the Franchise Sector", Elsner, B. and Polachek, S.W. (Ed.) Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part B, Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 52B. Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 225-253. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-91212024000052B031
CRAML Github: https://github.com/sjmeis/CRAML_Beta
Sauerwald, S., & Norlander, P. (2024). Political Directors and the Recruitment of Foreign Workers. Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241300311
Erickson, C. L., & Norlander, P. (2022). How the past of outsourcing and offshoring is the future of post-pandemic remote work: A typology, a model and a review. Industrial Relations Journal, 53(1), 71– 89. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12355

Norlander, P. (2021).  Do guest worker programs give firms too much power?  IZA World of Labor. https://wol.iza.org/articles/do-guest-worker-programs-give-firms-too-much-power

Norlander, P., Jukic, N., Varma, A., & Nestorov, S. (2021).  The Effects of technological supervision on gig workers:  organizational control and motivation of Uber, taxi, and limousine drivers.  The International Journal of Human Management, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2020.1867614.  Accepted Manuscript:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3756543 

Norlander, P., Ho, G.C., Shih, M., Walters, D.J. & Pittinsky, T.L. (2020). The Role of Psychological Stigmatization in Unemployment Discrimination, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, DOI:10.1080/01973533.2019.1689363

Gibbons, E., Greenman, A., Norlander, P., and Sorensen, T. (2019). Monopsony Power and Guest Worker Programs. Antitrust Bulletin, 64: 540-565. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0003603X19875040. (Working Paper Version; Equitable Growth Write-Up).

Norlander, P, Varma, A. (2019). H-1B and L-1 visa-sponsored guest workers in the USA: An analysis of the strategic impact of Indian and other firms. Thunderbird Int. Bus. Rev. 2019; 61: 565– 579.https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22044

Norlander, P. Ho, G.C., Shih, M., Walters, D.J. & Pittinsky, T.L. (2019). The Role of Psychological Stigmatization in Unemployment Discrimination, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, DOI:10.1080/01973533.2019.1689363

Norlander, P., & Sørensen, T. A. (2018). 21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States. Migration Letters; Vol. 15, Iss. 3: 409-422. (Working Paper Version)

Depew, B., Norlander, P., Sorensen, T. Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns of Skilled Guest Workers. Journal of Population Economics. (Working Paper Version)

Norlander, P., Erickson, C., Kuruvilla, S., & Kannan-Narasimhan, R. (2015). India’s Outsourcing Industry and the Offshoring of Skilled Services Work: A Review Essay. E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, 4(1). 

Under Review

Norlander, P. and DeVaro, J. "Labor Law Violations, Economic Conditions, and Labor-Market Power: The case of Wage Theft Against H-1B Workers." Under review at Journal of Law and Economics. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3858061

Norlander, P., Does, S., Shih, M.  "Deprivation at work: The Racial Gap Between White and Non-White Americans' Quality of Work Life." Working paper.

Shih, M., Does, S., Norlander, P. The Absence of Positive Experiences: Examining Disparities at Work. (submitted)

Harris, D. A., Norlander, P. Fifteen Years Later: The Pipeline to the Top at Best Practice and Matched Comparison Firms. (submitted)

Other Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapters

Norlander, P. (2019). The Growing Divergence in US Employee Relations: Individualism, Democracy, and Conflict. In International ComparativeEmployee Relations, Eds. Pietro Manzella and Karl Koch. Edward Elgar. London, UK. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973229.00018. (Working Paper Version).

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Dasgupta, B. Norlander, P. (2019). Living in India: Western and Indian Thinking. In Doing Business in India. Budhwar, P., and Varma, A. (eds.). Routledge: London.

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management in Asia. Handbook of HRM in Asia. Routledge.

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management and Motivation. Sage.

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). HRM and performance in Asia. Routledge Handbook of HRM in Asia (pp. 19). Routledge.

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). Performance Management and motivation (278-301). Human resource management: Strategic and International Perspectives (Second Edition ed., pp. 278-301). Sage.  

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management in Asia. Handbook of HRM in Asia. Routledge.  

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management and Motivation. Sage.

Book Review 

Norlander, P. (2017). The Co-Operative Firm Keywords, edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni. A Review. The Co-Operative Firm Keywords, edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni. http://ejcls.adapt.it/index.php/ejcls_adapt/article/viewFile/437/652

Awards

  • Gemini Academic Program Award, January 2026.
  • Co-PI, Small Business Administration Community Fund, 2023 – Sept 2026, “Strengthening Minority Owned Businesses.”
  • Co-PI, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, June 2023 – Sept 2026, “Building an open-source knowledge base and machine learning tools to automate the transformation of job advertisement text into data.”
  • PI, Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant, June 2022- 2025, “A Public Dataset of Firm-Level Employment Practices.”
  • PI, Economic Security Project, Antimonopoly Fund, January 2022. “Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts.”