Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 2000

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 2000

THE CRAFT OF LABORMETRICS.
April 1, 2000... DANIEL S. HAMERMESH [*] Using a wide array of examples from the literature and from original estimates, the author examines the pitfalls that make good empirical research in labor economics at least as much craft as statistical technique....

WHEN ARE LAYOFFS ACCEPTABLE? EVIDENCE FROM A QUASI-EXPERIMENT.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... DAVID I. LEVINE [*] If, as has been widely suggested, internal labor markets are declining and a new employment contract with reduced employer-employee commitment is emerging, the criteria by which employees judge layoffs as fair or unfair...

OCCUPATIONAL AGE STRUCTURE AND ACCESS FOR OLDER WORKERS.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... MELISSA A. HARDY [*] This paper examines covariates of the occupational age structure and the openness of jobs to older workers. Using a large number of data sets, which together span the years 1983-98, the authors focus on the structure...

ORGANIZED LABOR'S IMAGES OF MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE: DIVERGENT FOREIGN INVESTMENT IDEOLOGIES IN ARGENTINA, SOUTH KOREA, AND SPAIN.
April 1, 2000... MAURO F. GUILLEN [*] This paper conceptualizes how organized labor in newly industrialized countries both responds to and shapes the presence of foreign multinationals. Four images of multinationals--as "villains," "necessary evils,"...

CORRELATES OF TRAINING: AN ANALYSIS USING BOTH EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE CHARACTERISTICS.
April 1, 2000... MARY JOYCE [*] Although a number of surveys now measure employee training, serious gaps remain in our knowledge of such fundamental matters as how much training takes place, who provides it, and who gets it. The authors explore these...

WHAT DETERMINES JOB QUALITY IN NURSING HOMES?(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... LARRY W. HUNTER [*] Using data from interviews and a 1991 survey of Massachusetts nursing homes, the author examines employment practices across establishments for the entry-level job of nursing assistant. Practices characteristic of good...

REFLECTIONS ON THE "HIGH PERFORMANCE" PARADIGM'S IMPLICATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AS A FIELD.
April 1, 2000... JOHN T. DELANEY [*] Over the past decade, several leading U.S. scholars have advanced a new industrial relations paradigm, according to which "high performance" work and human resource management (HRM) practices have replaced unions and...

ESTIMATING THE UNION EARNINGS EFFECT USING A SAMPLE OF DISPLACED WORKERS.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... STEVEN RAPHAEL [*] This paper improves on past longitudinal estimates of the union earnings effect by using a sample of workers for whom the error in measuring changes in union status is minimized. The author uses a sample of workers...

Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations. Edited by Keith Whitfield and George Strauss. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. 330 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3290-1, $49.95...

Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany. By Lowell Turner. Ithaca, N.Y, and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. 195 PP. ISBN 0-8014-3486-6, $39.95 (cloth); 0-80114-8483-9, $15.95 (paper). Lowell Turner has...

Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition. Edited by Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. 350 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3369-x, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8014-8405-7,...

Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Young Workers: Varieties of Experience. Edited by Julian Barling and E. Kevin Kelloway. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1999. x, 282 pp. ISBN 155798-563-4, $39.95 ($34.95 for APA members), cloth. Youths' involvement...

We'll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction.(Review)
April 1, 2000... We'll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. By Susan Eisenberg. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. 226 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3360-6, $25.00 (cloth). We'll Call You if We Need You...

Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba. Washington, D.C.: AET Press and Independent Women's Forum, 1999. 144 pp. ISBN 0-8447-4114-0, $14.95 (paper). ...

Prospects for Social Security Reform.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Prospects for Social Security Reform. Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert J. Myers, and Howard Young. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 413 pp. ISBN 1-8122-3479-0, $49.95 (cloth). This book, the latest installment in...

Public Policy toward Pensions.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Public Policy toward Pensions. Edited by Sylvester Schieber and John Shoven. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1997. 338 pp. ISBN 0-262-19387-6, $40.00 (cloth). Followers of the retirement income policy debate are familiar with the "three legged...

Gainsharing and Power: Lessons from Six Scanlon Plans.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Gainsharing and Power: Lessons from Six Scanlon Plans. By Denis Collins. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. 277 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3490-4, $39.95 (cloth). In this book, Denis Collins sets out to tell "the...

Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. By China Kwan Lee. California: University of California Press, 1998. 210 pp. ISBN 0-520-21127-8, $16.95 (paper). Gender and the South China Miracle is a rich comparative study...

Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order. Edited by Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xxiii, 269 pp. ISBN 0-31-2217-684, $79.95 (cloth). This...

Paying the Price: The Wage Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Paying the Price: The Wage Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 418 pp. ISBN 0-312-17729-1, $79.95 (cloth). This book is an important contribution for two reasons....

The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance. By Taylor E. Dark. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. 233 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3576-5, $37.50 (cloth). Informative and well written, The Unions and the...

Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement. By Richard Magat. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. xx, 229 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3552-8, $39.95 (cloth). Philanthropic foundations have...

Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935. By Ruth O'Brien. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii, 313 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2430-5, $39.95 (cloth); 08078-4737-2, $17.95 (paper). ...