Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 1997

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 1997

The gender earnings gap among college-educated workers.
July 1, 1997... One of the most striking changes in the distribution of earnings during the 1980s was the decline in the gap between men and women. The female-male ratio of median earnings for full-time workers changed little from 1950 to 1980 but rose...

The persistence of gender earnings inequality in Taiwan, 1978-1992.
July 1, 1997... During Taiwan's successful economic development, the gender earnings differential remained unchanged, with women continuing to earn 65% of what men earned. This paper analyzes why the gender earnings differential stagnated in the 1980s....

Public employment agencies and unemployment spells: reconciling the experimental and nonexperimental evidence.
July 1, 1997... This paper empirically investigates the relationship between the use of public employment agencies (PEAs) and unemployment spells. A standard finding in the econometric literature on this issue is that job-seekers reporting PEA use have lower...

Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing."
July 1, 1997... Left-of-center critics of U.S.-style capitalism have in recent years focused on two main indictments of the country's labor markets: stagnant and increasingly unequal wages, and an authoritarian, anti-union management style. In Fat and Mean,...

North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain.
July 1, 1997... Much has been written on either side of the debate over new forms of work organization and labor-management relations in the auto industry. Proponents of lean production and its associated cooperative labor-management relations argue that the...

Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace.
July 1, 1997... In this splendid book, Paul Johnston applies his broad understanding of contemporary social theory to an analysis of a series of carefully matched field research cases to achieve genuine theoretical insights. His analysis addresses such...

Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990s.
July 1, 1997... The authors of this slender volume use the testimony before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations (the eponymous "Dunlop Commission") as a prism through which the state of industrial relations and labor law at mid-decade can...

Assisting Workers Displaced by Structural Change: An International Perspective.
July 1, 1997... In his third Upjohn monograph on displaced worker policy, Duane Leigh turns to the international evidence on this issue. Specifically, Leigh asks what can be learned about the effectiveness of policies directed at displaced workers from...

Disability, Work, and Cash Benefits.
July 1, 1997... It is widely believed that the Social Security system is in need of urgent repair. Economic forecasts project that, under current rules, sometime in the early part of the 21st century payments to beneficiaries will exceed the fund's ability to...

Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization.
July 1, 1997... There is no doubt that rights-inflected movements are with us for the foreseeable future. If anything, the salience of rights claims will intensify with international trade agreements that jeopardize both the substance and spirit of labor and...

Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy.
July 1, 1997... In 1907 John R. Commons, Richard Ely, and other academic economists formed the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL), which actively lobbied for labor legislation during the Progressive Era. Scholars and contemporaries have described...

Free for All? Lessons for the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.
July 1, 1997... Although the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE) is one of the most important social science experiments undertaken in recent decades, it has not received much recognition outside the sphere of health services research. The efforts of Joseph...

Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality.
July 1, 1997... Recent reports in the media suggest that the U.S. economy is on an upswing. The dollar is strong in overseas markets like Japan and Germany, and people who have been searching for jobs for some time are finally finding work. Many of these people,...

Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York.
July 1, 1997... Those who are inclined to offer glib generalizations about the relationship between economic change, racial discrimination, and black poverty will likely be chastened by a close reading of Roger Waldinger's study of African-Americans and...

Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage, and Employment Among American Women.
July 1, 1997... In Balancing Act, Spain and Bianchi describe the various aspects of women's lives that affect their simultaneous roles as mothers, workers, and wives. An updated revision of the authors' earlier book American Women in Transition (1986), this text...

Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice.
July 1, 1997... The appearance of Organizational Learning H is a genuinely welcome event. Greatly advancing the authors' important arguments in their earlier work, Organizational Learning (1978), it offers new theoretical and practical perspectives on a vital...

Organizations in America: Analyzing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices.
July 1, 1997... Organizations in America, a collection of 16 papers' by the four lead authors and seven associates, presents results from the 1991 National Organizations Study. Versions of many of these chapters were published in a special issue of The American...

Labor Relations in Transition: Wages, Employment, and Industrial Conflict in Russia.
July 1, 1997... This volume consists of ten articles by Russian scholars together with an introduction and summary by the editor. In the introduction, Clarke writes, The distinctive feature of our research program has been its emphasis on the internal...

Organized Industrial Relations in Europe: What Future?
July 1, 1997... The comparative industrial relations literature tends to be rather descriptive, and edited volumes typically consist of national case studies, with an introduction or conclusion that seeks to generalize across these case studies. This volume...

Works Councils: Consultation, Representation, and Cooperation in Industrial Relations.
July 1, 1997... Organized under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research, this collection of papers offers both detailed country case studies and a comprehensive comparative analysis of contemporary works councils. Focused primarily on seven...