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Expertise

  • Compensation and earnings
  • Gender issues in the workplace
  • Labor market and demographics

Contact:
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
linda.barrington@cornell.edu

Biography

Linda Barrington is Associate Dean of External Relations for the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. She is also the executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies. Barrington came to Cornell University from The Conference Board, a global business membership and research organization. While there, she advanced through several positions, including economist, special assistant to the CEO, research director, and managing director of human capital. Before assuming her current role at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Barrington served as Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research of Cornell University’s ILR School. She began her career on the economics faculty at Barnard College of Columbia University, and has also taught economics at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois.

Barrington’s published research addresses compensation, gender issues in the workplace, business leaders’ perceptions of their top challenges, employees with disabilities, workforce demographics, and the working poor. Her work appears in the Review of Economics and Statistics; the Journal of Economic History; the Historical Statistics of the U.S.; the WorldatWork Journal; workspan; and numerous business-research reports. Barrington has also edited and been contributing author to three scholarly books.

Barrington has been a frequent media contributor on compensation issues and labor market statistics, and has presented expert opinion to state and national policy panels on gender pay gaps, generational workforce challenges, and compensation. She has rich career experience as an educator, researcher, media spokesperson, and executive leader, having built a successful track record in academic administration, stakeholder collaboration, and organizational management.