Contact Information
M/C 504
Champaign, IL 61820
Additional Campus Affiliations
Executive Director, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Associate Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Associate Professor, Sociology
Associate Professor, Business Administration
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Recent Publications
Han, K. H., & Benton, R. A. (2026). The adverse impact of accountability policies: performance-based funding, diversity outcomes, and organizational visibility. Socio-Economic Review, 24(1), 281-330. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf028
Lamare, J. R., Benton, R. A., & Tabarani, P. M. (2024). An Empirical Analysis of Race and Political Partisanship Effects on Workplace Mobility Patterns During Lockdown, Reopening, and Endemic COVID-19. ILR Review, 77(4), 475-505. https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939241246510
Benton, R. A., Cobb, J. A., & Werner, T. (2022). Firm partisan positioning, polarization, and risk communication: Examining voluntary disclosures on COVID-19. Strategic Management Journal, 43(4), 697-723. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3352
Benton, R. A., & Kim, K. J. (2022). The Dependency Structure of Bad Jobs: How Market Constraint Undermines Job Quality. ILR Review, 75(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793920936250
Wilcox, A., McDonald, S., Benton, R. A., & Tomaskovic-Devey, D. (2022). Gender inequality in relational position-taking: An analysis of intra-organizational job mobility networks. Social Science Research, 101, Article 102622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102622