Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1995

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1995

Human resource bundles and manufacturing performance: organizational logic and flexible production systems in the world auto industry.
January 1, 1995... Despite claims that innovative human resource (HR) practices can boost firm-level performance and national competitiveness, few studies have been able to confirm this relationship empirically, and still fewer have systematically described the...

A re-examination of the relationship between union membership and job satisfaction.
January 1, 1995... One of the most consistent findings in the industrial relations literature is that job satisfaction is lower among unionized workers than nonunionized workers. A second finding, paradoxical in light of the first, is that union workers have lower...

The determinants of NLRB decision-making revisited.
January 1, 1995... The five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decides the fate of hundreds of disputes annually between labor and management. Under significant time constraints to make decisions about disputes that vary in importance and complexity and...

Union wage concessions in the 1980s: the importance of firm-specific factors.
January 1, 1995... Previous studies have documented the incidence of union wage and benefit concessions in collective bargaining settlements in the 1980s and have shown that concessionary trends are related to declining inflation, high unemployment rates...

Pension portability and labor market efficiency: a survey of the literature.
January 1, 1995... This paper is a review of studies that have implications for the labor market efficiency effects of policies to enhance pension portability. Federal policy toward portability has been an important issue since the 1960s. Approximately 40% of...

Is job stability declining in the U.S. economy?
January 1, 1995... Stable, long-term attachments between workers and firms have been a prominent feature of the post-World War II U.S. economy (Osterman 1988; Lilien 1980). Some evidence on the recent behavior of the U.S. labor market suggests that jobs are...

Updated notes on the interindustry wage structure, 1890-1990.
January 1, 1995... The interindustry structure of wages has received unprecedented attention in recent years. Studies have found large differentials in wages across industries, even after controlling for a broad range of worker and job characteristics, including...

Does salaried status affect human capital accumulation?
January 1, 1995... Human capital models and empirical studies to verify them do not usually consider whether an individual is an hourly wage worker or a salaried worker. In this paper we offer a conceptual framework to explain why some workers are paid salaries and...

The effects of tastes and motivation on individual income.
January 1, 1995... The fact that individuals are not indifferent between safe and risky jobs or between pleasant and unpleasant working conditions has been stressed as a reason for occupational wage differentials since the time of Adam Smith. Interpersonal earnings...

When Strikes Make Sense - and Why: Lessons from the Third Republic of French Coal Miners.
January 1, 1995... Strikes have always been the most important way for workers to flex their collective muscles and make demands on employers. In the current era of global, flexible capitalism, workers' ability to engage in effective strikes is dramatically...

Can Unions Survive? The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement.
January 1, 1995... This book does not answer the question posed in the main title, but it does offer a blueprint consistent with its subtitle. The author, a George Washington University professor of law, is plainly worried about the state of the American labor...

Labor Relations at the New York Daily News: Peripheral Bargaining and the 1990 Strike.
January 1, 1995... The Daily News strike of the early 1990s was one of the most dramatic and interesting strikes of the past decade. It involved colorful and well-known characters (for example, Theodore Kheel and Robert Maxwell), violence (there were numerous...

Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy.
January 1, 1995... In this book, Daniel Fox traces how our health care priorities evolved and how the present health care system developed; argues that both the system and the priorities have become obsolete; describes obstacles that must be overcome in order to...

The Costs of Worker Dislocation.
January 1, 1995... The decline of manufacturing in the United States in the 1980s moved policy-makers and labor economists to focus increasingly on the issue of worker dislocation. Public concerns led to the passage of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining...

Social Security and Individual Equity: Evolving Standards of Equity and Adequacy.
January 1, 1995... This book evaluates equity issues that arise in the five major U.S. social insurance programs for the elderly: three cash benefit programs--Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)--and two health benefit programs--Hospital, and...

Under the Influence? Drugs and the American Work Force.
January 1, 1995... As the war on drugs rages in this country, the issue of drug use in the workplace has gained wide attention. This volume provides a useful summary of our knowledge to date of the problem of drug and alcohol use in the work force. More important,...

Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe.
January 1, 1995... Given that an American won the Nobel Prize in Economics in twelve of the years between 1979 and 1993 and that a University of Chicago economist did so in the last four of those years, it is only mildly surprising that an economics conference held...

The Economics of Earnings.
January 1, 1995... This book is a useful synthesis of a large body of theoretical and empirical work on the economics of earnings. It presents this work in a unifying framework based on the life-cycle behavior of rational and well-informed agents in a competitive...

Mutual Gains: A Guide to Union-Management Cooperation, 2d rev. ed.
January 1, 1995... More and more employees and unions are jointly exploring ways to incorporate a cooperative dimension into what has been primarily an adversarial relationship. This book examines a wide range of cooperative arrangements and presents a thoughtful...

Emotion in Organizations.
January 1, 1995... This book is a collection of original articles on the role of emotional processes in organizational life. The volume is directed at "students and researchers of organizations who, up to now, may not have considered emotion to be part of their...

Profit Sharing: Does It Make a Difference?
January 1, 1995... In this book, Douglas Kruse sets out to review the literature on the effects of profit sharing and to provide new empirical evidence on profit sharing's consequences using a new longitudinal data set containing information on both organizations...

Bet on Cowboys, Not Horses: A Technological Breakthrough for Employee Selection.
January 1, 1995... It is widely believed that organizations can maintain a competitive advantage by identifying and hiring employees who are similar to those already performing successfully within the organization and the job. That simple insight is at the heart of...

International and Comparative Industrial Relations: A Study of Industrialised Market Economies, 2d ed.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1995... This fully revised second edition of a work originally published in 1987 examines industrial relations issues in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, and Japan. All these nations, the editors...

Industrial Democracy in Europe Revisited.
January 1, 1995... Cross-national comparisons over time are rare ventures in industrial relations research. In 1975--76 the IDE International Research Group, consisting of team members from 10 western European countries, Israel, and Yugoslavia, conducted an...

From Uniformity to Divergence: Industrial Relations in Canada and the United States.
January 1, 1995... Since the mid-1950s, aggregate union density has declined substantially in the United States but increased slightly in Canada. This difference has occurred despite the fact that these two countries have remarkably similar economies and social and...