Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1992

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1992

Does drug use lower wages? (Employment and Earnings Effects of Drug Use: Two Studies)
April 1, 1992... The use of Illegal drug is predominantly an activity of young adults,(1) whose average earnings are lower than those of older persons. It is also a widespread activity . In a 1988 survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 58.9% of...

Labor market effects of marijuana and cocaine use among young men. (Employment and Earnings Effects of Drug Use: Two Studies)
April 1, 1992... To say that the use of illicit drugs is viewed with alarm in the United States would surely be an understatement. Concern has focused not only on the personal tragedy and social repercussions of addiction, but also on the purported labor...

Employment and earnings effects of drug use: discussion by the authors. (Employment and Earnings Effects of Drug Use: Two Studies)
April 1, 1992... Discussion by Andrew M. Gill and Robert J. Michaels Despite differences in samples, definitions of variables, regression specifications, and econometric methods, our findings on drug use and wages broadly agree with those of Register and...

The transformation of labor unions in Eastern Europe: the case of Bulgaria.
April 1, 1992... The sweeping changes in eastern and central Europe have profoundly affected labor-management relations. In this paper I focus on the ways in which Bulgarian labor unions are changing., especially those most closely identified with the unions...

The effect of unions on firm performance in Japanese manufacturing.
April 1, 1992... The relationships between unions and firm performance has been the topic of extensive research in the United States and Britain. In a recent survey of the research of this subject, Addison and Hirsch (1989) concluded that unions substantially...

The link between business strategy and industrial relations systems in American steel minimills.
April 1, 1992... There can be little doubt that a prominent feature of the current industrial relations landscape in the United States is the great diversity of industrial relations policies, practices, and outcomes. In industries ranging from autos and steel...

Wage rule formation in the aerospace industry.
April 1, 1992... The 1980s saw radical changes in the nature of wage bargaining in the union sector, with the advent of concession bargaining and other departures from previously stable wage rules. In this paper, I seek explanations for some of the key changes...

The determinants and extent of UAW pattern bargaining.
April 1, 1992... The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) makes no secret about its bargaining behavior: Under the UAW's bargaining tradition, once the union selects a target negotiators work...

The economic progress of black women, 1940-1980: occupational distribution and relative wages.
April 1, 1992... The story of black women's labor market status over the past few decades is one of dramatic progress: black women went from earning 44% as much per hour as white women in 1940 to earning between 89% and 111% as much in 1980, depending on the...

The impact of the 1962 repatriates from Algeria on the French labor market.
April 1, 1992... Upon Algeria's independence from France in 1962, 900,000 people of European origin returned to France within the space of a year. This paper examines the impact of these repatriates on the French labor market. Previous studies of...

The effect of hospital bargaining unit structure on industrial relations outcomes.
April 1, 1992... When the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was extended to the health care industry in 1974, possible disruptions in patient care and increased costs were major Congressional concerns. Bargaining unit proliferation became an issue because...

The impact of quality of work life programs and grievance system effectiveness on union commitment.
April 1, 1992... Unions have viewed the increasing use of Quality of Work Life (QWL) programs in unionized workplaces with a great deal of caution and concern. In particular, union leaders have expressed fears that QWL programs will erode members' commitment to...

Arbitration of Discharge Grievances in Ontario: Outcomes and Reinstatement Experiences.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... Labor-Management Relations This study updates a similar study by George W. Adams published by the Industrial Relations Centre at Queens University in 1978. Barnacle provides thorough but concise reviews of discipline/discharge theory and...

Industrial Relations at Work: The Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... This study is based on the largest survey of industrial relations practices in individual workplaces ever undertaken in Australia. The survey, sponsored by the Australian government, covered managers and union delegates in workplaces employing...

A Rational Choice Analysis of Union Militancy with Application to the Cases of British Coal and Fiat.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... I liked this short book very much: it has an imaginative theme, unusually good writing, clarity, and marvelous pace, Remarkably, it makes stimulating reading for the specialist researcher and yet could usefully be assigned to an undergraduate...

Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.
April 1, 1992... This report is the impressive result of five years of study and analysis by Ronald Goldstock and his associates of a ten-billion-dollar-per-year industry employing 100,000 people-an industry that, because of its intensely competitive nature and...

Fairweather's Practice and Procedure in Labor Arbitration, 3d ed.
April 1, 1992... The Elkouris' How Arbitration Works is undoubtedly the reference work most often cited by the parties in an arbitration case, but Fairweather's vade mecum may well be the volume most frequently consulted by the arbitrator. Although Fairweather...

The New Global Competition: State Policy and Market Power.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... Industrial Relations, Politics, and Government This is a book by Canadians for Canadians, an empirical and analytical critique of the Conservative government's policy of trade-led growth through trade liberalization and the...

America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan.
April 1, 1992... Economic and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions Edward Berkowitz is one of a group of scholars who specialize in analysis of the welfare state. Others in the group are Michael Katz (another historian), Theda...

Setting Safety Standards: Regulation in the Public and Private Sectors.
April 1, 1992... We are now about 25 years into the modern era of federal safety regulation. For at least 15 of these years, politicians, bureaucrats, economists, and populist advocates of such regulation have differed over the desirability of using...

Dangerous Premises: An Insider's View of OSHA Enforcement.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... In a series of narrative drawn from his own experiences as a health inspector for the State of California OSHA program, Don Lofgren portrays the day-to-day problems faced by OSHA in its attempts to protect worker safety and health. Rendering a...

Social Security's Looming Surpluses: Prospects and Implications.
April 1, 1992... This book, though small considering the complexity and importance of its subject, contains a wealth of information and opinions about the projected growth in the assets of the Social Security trust funds (the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and...

The Tax Treatment of Fringe Benefits.
April 1, 1992... Let me reveal my biases. I strongly advocate including the accrual of pension benefits and some portion of employers contributions for health insurance in the personal income tax base. On a theoretical level, a comprehensive personal income tax...

Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach.
April 1, 1992... Labor Economics This book provides a fairly comprehensive survey of research on models concerned with job search and matching. The first two chapters of the book provide the reader with the basic economic and econometric tools necessary...

Urban Labour Market Structure and Job Access in India: A Study of Coimbatore.
April 1, 1992... This is book about "labor status" - what it is, how it works, and how it can be used in labor market analysis. The authors make a convincing case that the labor status approach is indeed a useful one to follow. The best way to understand...

Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government.
April 1, 1992... Human Resources, Personnel, and Organizational Behavior In her latest book, Martha Derthick argues that the ability of national administrative agencies to carry out their responsibilities is severely constrained by their...

National Service: Pro and Con.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... This volume, based on conference proceedings, sets out to evaluate whether national service really is "an idea whose time has come," as claimed by Senator Sam Nunn. Each essay in the volume provides arguments supporting or opposing national...

New Developments in Worker Training: A Legacy for the 1990s.
April 1, 1992... The debate on education and training in the United States has shifted dramatically in the last 20 years, from concerns with "overeducation" to a focus on training in the workplace. It is not clear that workplace training in the United States...

40 Years, 20 Million Ideas: The Toyota Suggestion System.
April 1, 1992... In this book, Yuzo Yasuda, a journalist, describes the employee suggestion system in Toyota and examines its economic and behavioral impact. Toyota's Creative idea Suggestion System started in 1951. By the 1988, the cumulative number of...

The Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective with the United States.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... In previous work, Masanori Hashimoto has powerfully applied firm-specific human capital theory to some aspects of Japanese labor markets, such as their prevalent bonuses, longer tenures, and steeper wage profiles. In this stimulating book, he...

Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1992... Daughters of Shtetl examines the lives of young, working-class, first generation, immigrant Jewish women at the turn of the century. Susan Glenn traces the origins of these women's ethnic, religious, class, political, and gender identities from...

Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers.
April 1, 1992... The employer role in industrial relations has been neglected in the fields of business history, economic history, and labor history. Noting this neglect, editor Sanford Jacoby, a pioneer in the study of employers' industrial relations role,...

Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines.
April 1, 1992... Cradle to Grave is a study of industrial relations - and much else - and about the copper workings of the Keweenaw Peninsula of upper Michigan. It spans the entire lifecycle of this district, from the discovery of rich mineral deposits in the...

The Political Failure of Employment Policy: 1945-1982.
April 1, 1992... Mucciaroni's book chronicles the evolution of employment policy during the postwar period. It appears at appears at a time when the reputation of employment policy has been in decline for almost two decades, resources have been falling for more...