Rate My Professor Fidan Kurtulus

Her research focuses on labor economics topics including the organization of workers within firms, participatory workplace practices and employee ownership, causes and consequences of workplace diversity, and long-term effects of affirmative action on U.S. employment since the Civil Rights Movement. Key publications include the book How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions? Employee Ownership, Employment Stability, and Firm Survival: 1999-2011 (with Douglas Kruse, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2017); The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Women and Minorities Over Three Decades: 1973-2003 (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016); Affirmative Action and the Occupational Advancement of Minorities and Women During 1973-2003 (Industrial Relations, 2012); An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Employee Ownership and Employment Stability in the U.S.: 1999-2011 (with Doug Kruse, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2018); and An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives and the Delegation of Worker Authority (with Jed L. DeVaro, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010). Kurtulus has received the Early Career Research Award from the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (2012), Joseph Cabral Distinguished Fellowship (2014-2016), Chancellor's Junior Faculty Fellow at UMass Amherst (2010), and J. Robert Beyster Fellowship (2009).