Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1996

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1996

Collective bargaining in small firms: preliminary evidence of fundamental change.
January 1, 1996... For half a century, collective bargaining has been a defining feature of the U.S. industrial relations system, yet we know surprisingly little about how it is practiced in small firms. Examining current collective bargaining experience in small...

The economic effect of strikes on the shareholders of nonstruck competitors.
January 1, 1996... Any complete assessment of the economic effect of unions must include a comprehensive evaluation of the effect of strikes on the wealth of shareholders. Prior research has shed considerable light on the burden strikes impose on the shareholders...

The effect of deregulation on employee earnings: pilots, flight attendants, and mechanics, 1959-1992.
January 1, 1996... Although several studies have analyzed the effect of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 on the structure, competitiveness, and growth of the U.S. airline industry, only a few researchers have estimated the effect of airline deregulation on...

The response of wages to protective labor legislation: evidence from Canada.
January 1, 1996... Since the 1960s and 1970s, Canada, Japan, and the countries of western Europe all have enacted legislation requiring that firms provide varying degrees of advance notice, severance pay, or other forms of assistance to laid-off workers. With the...

Earnings profiles of department heads: comparing cross-section and panel models.
January 1, 1996... Prior research has considered depreciation of human capital resulting from labor force withdrawal (Mincer and Polachek 1974, 1978; Mincer and Ofek 1982), but human capital may depreciate for other reasons as well. The present study focuses on...

Racial differences in access to high-paying jobs and the wage gap between black and white women.
January 1, 1996... Between 1940 and 1980, black women experienced considerable improvement in their economic status relative to white women. In 1940, black women earned approximately 50% of the wages earned by white women of comparable age, education, and labor...

Discrimination in the payment of full-time wage premiums.
January 1, 1996... Since Gary Becker's seminal work in 1957, economists have conducted many empirical studies of discrimination in the labor market, usually focusing on wage discrimination, which is typically characterized as payment of unequal wages to workers...

The employment effects of wage discrimination against black men.
January 1, 1996... There have been numerous empirical studies of labor market discrimination in the United States since the publication of Becker's Economics of Discrimination (1971). Although the research is motivated by Becker's models, it has not fully tested...

Does the level of occupational aggregation affect estimates of the gender wage gap?
January 1, 1996... Canada, like most of the industrialized world, is characterized by marked differences between the occupational distributions of men and women. These differences have long been viewed as a potentially important explanation for the presence of the...

The impact of 1970s repatriates from Africa on the Portuguese labor market.
January 1, 1996... Most empirical studies of the labor market effect of immigration compare wages, unemployment, and employment across cities with varying immigrant absorption rates. Such studies typically find few differences in labor market activity between high-...

Comment on Kenneth A. Swinnerton and Howard Wial, "Is job stability declining in the U.S. economy?"(response to Industrial and Labor Relations Review, v. 49, no. 2)
January 1, 1996... Methods and Results The central concept in the two papers is the t-year retention rate, R(t), which gives the probability that workers with a particular level of tenure today will have an additional t years of tenure t years hence. The t-year...

Is job stability declining in the U.S. economy? Reply to Diebold, Neumark, and Polsky.(response to article by Francis X. Diebold, David Neumark and Daniel Polsky in this issue, p. 348)
January 1, 1996... The Non-Response Issue DNP alert us to the fact that the non-response rate, that is, the proportion of supplement respondents for whom there should have been a response to the tenure question but was not, was 2.8% in 1991 and that in 1983 and...

Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America.
January 1, 1996... In the past several years, as the European Union has completed large portions of its Internal Market Program, NAFTA and FTA have been passed into law by the North American countries, and other areas of the world have moved toward greater regional...

Farm Labor Organizing: Trends and Prospects.
January 1, 1996... This monograph is the result of a study made when New York State explored the prospect of legislation affecting farmworker organizing. Although it nominally covers the United States, it necessarily focuses substantial attention on California....

The Factory and the City: The Story of the Cowley Automobile Workers in Oxford.
January 1, 1996... In 1988, the Thatcher government privatized Rover. Shortly after its purchase of Rover, British Aerospace announced the closing of one of the assembly plants in the Cowley complex in Oxford. A second announcement followed shortly in which British...

Union Resilience in Troubled Times: The Story of the Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 1960-1993.
January 1, 1996... Union Resilience covers the history of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) from 1960 to 1993. The book extends Garth Mangum's historical account of the IUOE from its founding in 1896 to 1959 in The Operating Engineers: The...

Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service.
January 1, 1996... This book is an exposition of the history and organization of the U.S. Postal Service. Especially notable is Baxter's analysis of the causes and consequences of a major bureaucratic organization's ongoing process of restructuring and...

Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century.
January 1, 1996... To better understand the 1980s phenomena of rising economic inequality and persistent levels of poverty despite robust economic expansion, in 1991 the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College convened a conference on "Poverty and...

Employee Lifestyle and Off-Duty Conduct Regulation.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... This book provides a comprehensive review of judicial, administrative, and arbitral case law affecting employer attempts at regulation of employee off-duty conduct and personal life styles. It is also an excellent 'aid in decision making' to...

Creating Economic Opportunities: The Role of Labour Standards in Industrial Restructuring.
January 1, 1996... This volume explores the cases for and against including labor standards in economic restructuring at various levels from the enterprise to the international economy. The editors are from the International Labour Office's (ILO's) International...

Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets.
January 1, 1996... The stated purpose of this collection of essays, part of the Kluwer Recent Economic Thought Series, is to "address where things stand in labor economics" (p. 1). The book's nine chapters are divided into four parts dealing with unemployment,...

Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective.
January 1, 1996... Models of Management is a welcome book because it helps to fill a large hole in the area of comparative management systems. Guillen presents tightly argued national studies of the social and institutional pressures that led to the adoption of...

Comparative Industrial Relations: An Introduction to Cross-National Perspectives, 2d ed.
January 1, 1996... This new edition of Comparative Industrial Relations updates the 1985 book and adds a chapter that looks at the economic performance of industrial relations (IR) systems. This new chapter replaces the earlier concluding chapter, which provided an...

Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France.
January 1, 1996... Twice in a little over a decade French workers sounded the tocsin of social revolt. But what a difference there was between May 1968 and 1981! Nominally, the first ended in failure with the restoration of Gaullist rule. Nonetheless, May 1968...

Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912.
January 1, 1996... This two-part study of women in the textile mills and communities of Lawrence, Massachusetts, offers fresh perspectives on class formation, the "Woman Question," and Lawrence's reputation for labor militancy. What is new is Ardis Cameron's focus...

Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968.
January 1, 1996... Once again Alan Draper has produced a book on American labor and politics firmly grounded in the literature and filled with shrewd insights and provocative judgments. The author is one of a substantial cadre of social scientists who have filled...

Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900.
January 1, 1996... The brewer, the baker, and the cigarmaker - these three trades and the people who plied them in late nineteenth-century New York provide the focus for Dorothee Schneider's analysis of the evolving relationships both between German-American...

Proletarians of the Noprth: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933.
January 1, 1996... For students and scholars interested in the history of Chicano (Mexican and Mexican American) workers in the United States, the past 15 or so years have been extraordinarily rich in the range and volume of new scholarship added to what was...

Labor on the March.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... This reissuing of journalist Edward Levinson's now classic account of the rise of mass-production unionism comes at an opportune time. Currently, union density in the United States appears to be sinking toward the levels existing prior to the...