Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 1992

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 1992

Advance notice and unemployment: new evidence from the 1988 displaced worker survey. (Studies of the Effectiveness of Advance Notice of Layoff)
July 1, 1992... The impact of advance notice of displacement on unemployment has attracted close scrutiny in recent years, facilitated by the publication of two large-scale, nationally representative surveys of dislocated workers, namely, the retrospective...

The impact of advance notice: a comment on a study by Nord and Ting. (Stephen Nord and Yuan Ting, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 44, p. 681, July 1991) (Studies of the Effectiveness of Advance Notice of Layoff)
July 1, 1992... In their analysis of the effects of advance notification of plant closings, Nord and Ting (ILR Review, July 1991) claim that much can be expected of current legislation that mandates a 60-day prenotification standard because the outcomes of...

The impact of advance notice: a rejoinder. (response to John T. Addison, Douglas A. Fox, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Pedro Portugal, Industrial and Labor Relations Law Review, vol 45, p. 645, 665, July 1992) (Studies of the Effectiveness of Advance Notice of Layoff)
July 1, 1992... In our recent study (ILR Review, July 1991), using data from the 1988 CPS Displaced Workers Survey, we found that workers who were given at least 60 days' written advance notification of layoffs due to plant closings or relocations had...

How do arbitrators treat external law? (Studies of Grievance and Arbitration Processes)
July 1, 1992... For decades arbitrators have grappled with the question of how best to deal with external law - public law external to a collective bargaining agreement. This issue took on new urgency throughout the 1970s and 1980s in the wake of Supreme Court...

Salary arbitration and pre-arbitration negotiation in major league baseball. (Studies of Grievance and Arbitration Processes)
July 1, 1992... Since 1974, major league baseball has utilized final offer arbitration to determine the salaries of some players. When this system is invoked, each side submits a final salary offer for an arbitrator to consider. An arbitration hearing is...

A comparison of interest arbitrator decision-making in experimental and field settings. (Studies of Grievance and Arbitration Processes)
July 1, 1992... The decision-making process used by arbitrators to settle new contract disputes between labor and management has been the subject of several recent empirical studies. This research is motivated by the central role of arbitrator decision-making...

A simultaneous analysis of grievance activity and outcome decisions. (Studies of Grievance and Arbitration Processes)
July 1, 1992... Empirical analyses of the grievance mechanism have generally focused on two related issues: the determinants of the filing of grievances and the determinants of the timeliness with which grievances are resolved. Recent studies have extended the...

An empirical analysis of employed and unemployed job search behavior.
July 1, 1992... This paper presents an empirical analysis of the job search activity of employed and unemployed job seekers. The analysis uses data on several aspects of job search behavior as reported by job seekers in a 1980 survey. This study is one of the...

Salary dispersion, location in the salary distribution, and turnover among college administrators.
July 1, 1992... The large psychological literature on relative deprivation, equity theory, and social comparison processes provides evidence that the distribution of rewards affects individual attitudes and behavior. In economics, Frank (1984) has argued that...

The determinants of labor absence: economic factors and workgroup norms across countries.
July 1, 1992... Recently, economic research has begun focusing on the causes of absence. In this study we use a new, cross-national data set to test three explanations of voluntary absence behavior. The first explanation is based on a traditional labor-leisure...

Swedish wage-earner funds: an experiment in economic democracy.
July 1, 1992... Sweden's extensive and universalistic welfare state has long attracted the attention of foreign observers. More recently, Sweden has been invoked not only as a model of progressive social policy, but also as a model of industrial and economic...

Comment on Alan B. Krueger, 'The Evolution of Unjust-Dismissal Legislation in the United States." (includes reply by Krueger) (Industrial and Labor Relations Law Review, vol. 44, p. 644, July 1991)
July 1, 1992... In his article published in the July 1991 issue (Volume 44, Number 4, pp. 644-60), Alan B. Krueger, citing anecdotal evidence, states that "employer groups in some states actually support and sponsor unjust-dismissal legislation" (p. 658). "A...

An alternative to Bemmels's method of investigating biases in arbitration. (includes reply by Brian Bemmels)
July 1, 1992... The effects of arbitrators' and grievants' characteristics on the arbitration decision have been the focus of several recent studies. In an effort to reveal biases, Bemmels (1988a, 1988b, 1988c, 1990) introduced a method for evaluating...

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
July 1, 1992... One of the perennial features of the study of the American working class has been an effort to explain the specific nature of trade union development in this country. For the first institutionalists early in this century down to the most avid...

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
July 1, 1992... Few forces in American public life did more to shape the possibilities and limits of reform in the Progressive era than did American law. In a time of tremendous social upheaval, sweeping economic change, bitter political conflict, and diverse,...

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
July 1, 1992... During the past two decades an enormous body of literature has appeared in legal journals and law reviews exploring the impact of the law on both industrial relations in the United States and the policies and practices of the labor movement....

Two-Tier Compensation Structures: Their Impact on Unions, Employers, and Employees.
July 1, 1992... In recent years, the W.E. Upjohn Institute has issued publications on a variety of matters relevant to the work of labor market analysts interested in firm-level human resources - studies on pensions and comparable worth, for example. Martin's...

South Korea: Dissent Within the Economic Miracle.
July 1, 1992... South Korea's stunning economic growth has forced a fundamental rethinking of theories of development, relating especially to the respective roles of states and markets, and to the relationship between political regimes and economic...

Administering the Taylor Law: Public Employee Relations in New York.
July 1, 1992... One exception to the uninterrupted decline in U.S. trade union membership over the past 35 years has been the surge in public employee unionism, especially union membership and collective bargaining in state and local governments. Aiding this...

Remedies in Arbitration, 2d ed.
July 1, 1992... This book is a useful, well-written, thorough, and judiciously balanced study of the nature and exercise of the remedy power of labor arbitrators. In this second edition, the authors not only update the published decisions that constitute their...

Collective Agreement Arbitration in Canada, 3d ed.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1992... Now in its third edition, this book provides a comprehensive review of grievance arbitration in Canada. Based on the arbitral jurisprudence (published awards that appear in the series entitled Labour Arbitration Cases or L.A.C.'s), this volume...

The Urban Underclass.
July 1, 1992... This volume of essays considers the issue of whether the underclass is, as conventional wisdom claims, a relatively new and growing problem in our largest cities or a continuation of the familiar, unyielding problem of our failure to bring the...

Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: Finland.
July 1, 1992... Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: Finland is part of a series assessing how various nations have responded "to the economic upheavals of the 1970s and 1980s" with respect to labor flexibility and unemployment. The authors consider...

Retirement and Public Policy: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
July 1, 1992... The National Academy of Social Insurance held a conference in January 1990 to discuss whether public policy can and should encourage older workers to remain in the labor force. The resulting conference volume is an engaging collection of papers...

Sickness Absence in Belgium, Germany (FR), and the Netherlands: A Comparative Study.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1992... "Sickness absence" refers to short-term (less than one-year) absences from work due to accidents or illnesses of a nonwork origin, that is, nonoccupational injury or disease. Unlike the United States or Canada, the three countries examined in...

Paying for Productivity.
July 1, 1992... This collection of five essays (with comments by leading scholars in the field) asks whether the manner in which workers are paid affects productivity or profits. Alan Blinder provides a very insightful introduction in which he points out that,...

Bridges to Retirement: Older Workers in a Changing Labor Market.
July 1, 1992... The large decline in the work activity of older men in the last 50 years has attracted the attention of a large number of economists and other social scientists. Much of the best of this research has focused on the decision to leave career...

Skills, Wages, and Productivity in the Service Sector.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1992... The focus of the papers in this collection is the sharp increase in service sector employment in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. According to Thierry Noyelle, the book's editor, two schools of thought provide explanations for that...

Beyond the Marketplace: Rethinking Economy and Society.
July 1, 1992... The title Beyond the Marketplace could lead a prospective reader to expect a book examining and discussing the nature and limits of markets, and perhaps indicating either where markets have inappropriately intruded or where they need to be...

End-User Training.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1992... This volume is the second in a series entitled "Technological Innovation and Human Resources." The first volume examined the management of technological developments; this book's concerns are issues in the end-user domain. The book has three...

Women Changing Work.
July 1, 1992... Women Changing Work is another tack taken in that long line of feminist discourse that says to men, there is another, better way to be. These concluding words by the author summarize the central point or hypothesis of this book. It is that...

Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations.
July 1, 1992... Researchers from a variety of disciplines have long noted that a key reason female earnings average about two-thirds of male earnings is that women and men often do different kinds of work. Women are disproportionately located in occupations...

Tangled Hierarchies: Teachers as Professionals and the Management of Schools.
July 1, 1992... There are those who see the school reform movement as a series of failed attempts to improve public education, initially demanding accountability and imposing control on teachers, and subsequently asking those same teachers to solve the...

The Forgotten Link: Labor's Stake in International Economic Cooperation.
July 1, 1992... This book is a delightfully concise and well-written discussion of labor's stake in contemporary international economic integration and cooperation. Neither a research study nor a full presentation of the subject, it is rather a discourse on...

Industrial Restructuring with Job Security: The Case of European Steel.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1992... Comparative economic research typically presents formidable empirical challenges. The returns to such research, however, can be substantial, since time-series or cross-section variation in policy variables within a country, even one as diverse...

Perspectives on American Labor History: Problems of Synthesis.
July 1, 1992... This volume brings together essays presented at a conference at Northern Illinois in 1984 on the question of synthesis in American labor history. Responding to the proliferation of studies in American labor history during and after the social...