Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 2001

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 2001

EARNINGS LOSSES AND UNEMPLOYMENT OF DISPLACED WORKERS IN GERMANY.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... KENNETH A. COUCH [*] Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to examine the experiences of German workers following job displacement due to plant closure. In the year of displacement, annual earnings declined by about 13.5%, and...

UNEMPLOYMENT IN REGIONAL LABOR MARKETS: USING STRUCTURAL THEORIES TO UNDERSTAND LOCAL JOBLESS RATES IN WEST VIRGINIA.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... STEPHAN WEILER [*] The author uses a range of structural labor market models to understand differing regional jobless rates in a state affected by pockets of structural unemployment. Four theories of regional structural unemployment are...

RISK OF LABOR DISPLACEMENT AND CROSS-INDUSTRY LABOR MOBILITY.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... ELISABETTA MAGNANI [*] A well-supported conclusion of previous research is that displacement entails large and persistent costs for workers. It therefore seems reasonable to expect workers to try to anticipate and respond to the risk of...

INTER-INDUSTRY WAGE DIFFERENTIALS AND THE GENDER WAGE GAP: AN IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... RONALD L. OAXACA [*] An intuitively appealing method for estimating gender wage gaps by industry is shown to yield estimates that vary according to the arbitrary choice of left-out reference groups for non-industry categorical variables,...

PROFIT-SHARING, EMPLOYMENT STABILITY, AND WAGE GROWTH.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... STEPHAN DANNINGER [*] The authors conjecture that profit-sharing reduces turnover and thus increases expected returns to firm-specific human capital investments, so that the optimal levels of skill acquisition and investment in...

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF HOMOSEXUAL/HETEROSEXUAL MALE EARNINGS DIFFERENTIALS: UNMARRIED AND UNEQUAL?(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... MICHELLE M. ARTHUR [*] Using data from the 1990 U.S. Census (PUMS 5%), the authors present the first large-scale study of wage differentials between heterosexual and homosexual men. The homosexual sample, consisting of gay men in unmarried...

DOES TRAINING GENERALLY WORK? THE RETURNS TO IN-COMPANY TRAINING.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... PHILIP J. O'CONNELL [*] Using data from surveys of enterprises in Ireland in 1993 and 1996-97, the authors estimate the productivity effects of general training, specific training, and all types of training combined. Statistically...

SUPERVISORY STATUS AND UPPER-LEVEL SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE NLSY79.(National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... DONNA S. ROTHSTEIN [*] This paper examines what it means to be a supervisor, in terms of the associated responsibilities--their nature, who is likely to have them, and how they affect wages. The author examines data from a new series of...

Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Owen Darbishire [*] George R. Boyer [+] During the past two decades there have been significant changes in employment systems across industrialized countries. Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems, by Harry C....

Change in Employment Systems: Do Common International Trends Imply a Common Destination?
April 1, 2001... David Marsden [*] Harry Katz and Owen Darbishire are to be congratulated on their meticulous and wide-ranging international study of changes in industrial relations. They have succeeded in combining a broad view of change in whole systems...

Converging Divergences and European Employment Relations.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2001... Paul Teague [*] Converging Divergences is a carefully researched and well-argued book. Brimming with empirical evidence from various parts of the globe and deeply insightful without being flamboyant, it exemplifies the finest traditions of...

Converging Divergences or Converging through Four Patterns?(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2001... Enrique M. de la Garza [*] Harry Katz and Owen Darbishire's Converging Divergences is an empirical synthesis of the first order regarding the changes in labor relations in seven developed countries over a span of nearly two decades,...

High Equality, Low Activity: The Contribution of the Social Welfare System to the Stability of the German Collective Bargaining Regime.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2001... Wolfgang Streeck [*] The main trend on which employment systems are converging worldwide is, according to Katz and Darbishire, an increase in internal diversity accompanied by rising inequality. Like many of us, the authors feel more than...

Following Different Paths to Different Destinations: Comparative Labor Markets.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2001... John Pencavel [*] Changes in Labor Markets across Countries The labor markets of the relatively wealthy countries of the world have been transformed over the past twenty years or so. One fruitful way to open a discussion of Harry Katz...

Importance of Workers' Skills in Converging Divergences.
April 1, 2001... Kazuo Koike [*] My remarks on Harry Katz and Owen Darbishire's Converging Divergences center on two closely related points. First, a key variable in any framework aimed at explaining national employment systems, in my view, is workers'...

Labor-Management Relations.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California. Edited by Ruth Milkman. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 2000. 260 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3697-4, $42.50 (cloth); 0-8014-8617-3,...

Economic and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Weaving Work and Motherhood. Anita Ilta Garey. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xi, 229 pp. ISBN 1-56639-700-6, $19.95 (paper). Americans might venerate "work" and "motherhood," but we judge the working mother as both an...

Human Resources, Management, and Personnel.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Human Resource Strategy: Formulation, Implementation, and Impact. By Peter Bamberger and Ilan Meshoulam. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2000. 224 PP. ISBN 0-7619-1424-2, $24.95 (cloth). When reading books, many of us--perhaps not you--skip...

History.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. By Jefferson Cowie. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. 273 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3525-0, $29.95 (cloth). For a quarter-century after World...

A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice.(Review)
April 1, 2001... A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook, with a Foreword by Arlene Kaplan Daniels. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1998. 354 pages. ISBN 1-55861-189-4, $29.95 (cloth). The autobiography of...