Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 2001

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 2001

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEOCLASSICAL TRADITION IN LABOR ECONOMICS.(bibliography included)
January 1, 2001... ROBERT S. SMITH [*] This essay on labor economics examines neoclassical theory's rise to ascendancy following the second World War, with a secondary focus on the relative decline but continued influence of institutionalist economic theory....

GENDER AND PROMOTION IN THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION.(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... JAMES P. ZILIAK [*] The authors use unique panel data on American Economic Association members to test for gender differences in promotion in a profession with a well-defined promotion and job hierarchy and in which men and women exhibit...

THE USE OF FLEXIBLE STAFFING ARRANGEMENTS IN CORE PRODUCTION JOBS.(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... JOHN F. SGHNELL [*] Using data from their own 1994-96 survey of human resource managers in Alabama establishments, the authors investigate what determines the use of flexible staffing arrangements in core jobs and how such arrangements...

PREVAILING WAGE LAWS AND CONSTRUCTION LABOR MARKETS.(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... LAWRENCE F. KATZ [*] Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid wages and benefits at least equal to those "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality...

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND THE EARNINGS OF LATINO WORKERS: DO EMPLOYER SANCTIONS CAUSE DISCRIMINATION?(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... STEVEN RAPHAEL [*] Using the Current Population Surveys, the authors investigate whether sanctions against employers for hiring undocumented workers, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), adversely affected the...

THE EFFECT OF UNIONS ON WAGE INEQUALITY IN THE U.S. LABOR MARKET.(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... DAVID CARD [*] This study uses Current Population Survey micro data for 1973--74 and 1993 to evaluate the effect of changing union membership on trends in male and female wage inequality. Unionization rates of men fell between the two...

MEASURING THE EFFECT OF ARBITRATION ON WAGE LEVELS: THE CASE OF POLICE OFFICERS.(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... DEAN HYSLOP [*] The authors empirically evaluate how the provision of an arbitration statute affects police officers' wages by comparing wage levels across political jurisdictions and over time using a sample of states. Two complementary...

UNION SUCCESS IN REPRESENTATION ELECTIONS: WHY DOES UNIT SIZE MATTER?(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... HENRY S. FARBER [*] The author documents four facts regarding NLRB-supervised representation election activity over the period 1952-98: (1) election activity fell sharply and discontinuously beginning in the mid-1970s, after a two-decade...

WAGE EFFECTS OF UNIONS AND INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS IN SOUTH AFRICA.(bibliography included)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... CECILIA ELENA ROUSE [*] Using data for 1995, the authors estimate union wage premia of about 20% for African workers and 10% for white workers in South Africa--roughly similar to estimates reported for other countries, including the United...

Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Race, Gender, and Discrimination at Work. By Samuel Cohn. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2000. 200 pp. ISBN 0-8133-3201-X, $59.00 (cloth); 0-81 33-3202-8, $22.00 (paper). That women and minorities experience discrimination in occupations and...

The Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study. Edited by Christiaan Grootaert and Harry Anthony Patrinos. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 170 pp. ISBN 0-312-22122-3, $45.00 (cloth). The main purpose of the book, to develop a new...

Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth. Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, P. Brett Hammond, and Anna M. Rappaport. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 408 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3529-0, $49.95 (cloth). This volume...

Labor Economics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession. By Truman F. Bewley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 527 pp. ISBN 0-674-95241-3, $55.00 (cloth). Wage rigidity is something to be documented and something to be explained. By using...

Legal U.S. Immigration: Influences on Gender, Age, and Skill Composition.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Legal U.S. Immigration: Influences on Gender, Age, and Skill Composition. By Michael J. Greenwood and John M. McDowell. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1999. 300 pp. ISBN 0-88099-190-9, $39.00 (cloth);...

Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It. By Paul Osterman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. 222 pp. ISBN 0-691-01011-0, $24.95 (cloth). Between the election of 1932 and...

Doing Engineering: The Career Attachment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Doing Engineering: The Career Attachment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers. By Joyce Tang. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xx, 242 pp. ISBN 0-8476-9464-X, $65.00 (cloth); 8476-9465-8, $24.95 (paper). ...

HR, Management, and Personnel.(Human Resources)(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ethical Issues in Contemporary Human Resource Management. Edited by Diana Winstanley and Jean Woodall. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xii, 301 pp. ISBN 0-312-22874-0, $75.00 (cloth). This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing...

Historical Studies.(Review)
January 1, 2001... From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class. By Robert Bussell. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xxi, 257 pp. ISBN 0-271-01897-6, $57.50 (cloth); 0-271-01898-4, $19.95 (paper). ...

Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. By Michael Keith Honey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 402 pp. ISBN 0-520-21774-8, $29.95 (cloth). Black Workers Remember is a...