Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1992

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1992

The effect of the minimum wage on the fast-food industry. (New Minimum Wage Research: A Symposium)
October 1, 1992... AFTER nearly a decade with no change in the federal minimum wage, legislation increased it from $3.35 to $3.80 on April 1, 1990, and increased it again to $4.25 on April 1, 1991. The amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) further...

Using regional variation in wages to measure the effects of the federal minimum wage. (New Minimum Wage Research: A Symposium)
October 1, 1992... ONE of the traditional criticisms of a federal minimum wage policy is that it imposes a higher relative wage floor in regions with lower average.wages (see Stigler 1946:360-61). An appropriate minimum wage for New Jersey, for example, may...

Do minimum wages reduce employment? A case study of California, 1987-89. (New Minimum Wage Research: A Symposium)
October 1, 1992... FEW substantive issues generate as much agreement among economists as the effects of minimum wage legislation. It is widely believed that the imposition of a binding wage floor will reduce the employment of younger and less-skilled workers....

Employment effects of minimum and subminimum wages: panel data on state minimum wage laws. (New Minimum Wage Research: A Symposium )
October 1, 1992... A federal minimum wage was first implemented in the United States with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which now covers more than 90% of all workers. Since its enactment, there has been widespread debate about the merits of...

The wage mobility of minimum wage workers. (New Minimum Wage Research: A Symposium)
October 1, 1992... IN April 1990, the federal minimum wage was increased for the first time in nearly a decade. At its previous rate of $3.35 per hour, the statutory minimum had lost about one-third of its purchasing power and had also dropped relative to the...

Gender differences in attitudes toward unions.
October 1, 1992... WOMEN in the United States are less likely than men to be unionized. In 1991, 19.3% of employed men were union members, compared to only 12.6% of employed women (BLS 1992). The hypotheses that have been advanced to account for this difference...

Labor-managed cooperatives and private firms in North Central Italy: an empirical comparison.
October 1, 1992... FOLLOWING the publication in 1958 of a seminal paper by Benjamin Ward, "The Firm in Illyria," a voluminous theoretical economics literature emerged to analyze the behavior of the "labormanaged firm," an idealized characterization of Western...

Product quality improvement through employee participation: the effects of unionization and joint union-management administration.
October 1, 1992... EMPLOYEE participation programs (defined here as work groups, teams, circles, or committees eliciting the input of employees and union representatives) have become widespread across American industry. Recent surveys suggest that since the...

Union effects on productivity: evidence from Western U.S. sawmills.
October 1, 1992... SEVEAL recent studies address the question of whether and how unions affect production technology in the private sector. Most find that unions increase productivity, suggesting that any negative effects of restrictive work rules and other...

Wage-pension trade-offs in collective agreements. (Ontario)
October 1, 1992... THERE iS a fairly extensive theoretical and empirical literature on the tradeoff between wages and various desirable and undesirable characteristics of a job. Much more limited is the literature on the trade-off between wages and pension...

Strikes as collective voice: a behavioral analysis of strike activity. (Canada)
October 1, 1992... OVER the past decade, the quantitative literature on strike activity has been dominated by neoclassical economic models that attribute strikes primarily to imperfect or asymmetrical information. This literature does a great deal to advance our...

Effects of labor legislation and industry characteristics on union coverage in Canada.
October 1, 1992... The authors investigate the determinants of union coverage using 1986 cross-section data on Canadian workers. Larger firm size, larger establishment size, and higher injury rates increase the probability of union coverage. Industry...

The Right to Strike.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1992... The Right to Strike. By K.D. Ewing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xxi, 182 pp. ISBN 0-19-825439-3. $49.95. "Trade unions [in Britain] have been content, it seems, with a legal regime which protects their funds but which leaves...

A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball.
October 1, 1992... A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1991. (Sales/distribution: Secaucus, N.J.) 430 pp. ISBN 1-55972-067-0. $21.95. Marvin Miller was elected head of the Major League Baseball Players...

A Behavioural Theory of Labour Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System, 2d ed.
October 1, 1992... A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System. 2nd Edition. By Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1991. xxvi, 437 pp. $21.95. Twenty-six years after A Behavioral Theory...

Labour Arbitration Yearbook: 1991, vol. 1.
October 1, 1992... Labour Arbitration Yearbook, 1991. Volume 1. Edited by William Kaplan, Jeffrey Sack, and Morley Gunderson. Toronto: Butterworths-Lancaster House, 1991. 283 pp. ISBN 0-409-89867-8. $95.00. This is the first volume in what the editors promise...

Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy.
October 1, 1992... Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy. Edited by John T. Addison. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. 306 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2285-9. The contributions to this volume fully achieve John Addison's goal of...

The Economics of Child Care.
October 1, 1992... The Economics of Child Care. Edited by David M. Blau. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991. xi, 192 pp. ISBN 0-87154-118-1. $24.95. There is no doubt this is a timely book. As mothers of young children have entered the labor force...

When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1992... When the Bough Break. s: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett. New York: Basic Books, 1991. x, 346 pp. ISBN 0-465-09165-2. $22.95. Family life in the 1990s is markedly different from what it was years ago. The...

The Economic Future of American Families: Income and Wealth Trends.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1992... The Economic Future of American Families: Income and Wealth Trends. By Frank Levy and Richard C. Michel. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1991. 132 pp. ISBN 0-87766-487-0. $31.50 cloth, $15.25 paper. Slowing economic expansion and...

Compensation Mechanisms for Job Risks: Wages, Workers' Compensation, and Product Liability.
October 1, 1992... Compensation Mechanisms for Job Risks: Wages, Workers' Compensation, and Product Liability. By Michael J. Moore and W. Kip Viscusi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 156 pp. $35.00. In the nineteenth and early twentieth...

Disability and Work: Incentives, Rights, and Opportunities.
October 1, 1992... Disability and Work: Incentives, Rights, and Opportunities. Edited by Carolyn Weaver. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 1991. 127 pp. ISBN 0-8447-3738-0. $19.75. Disability and Work: Incentives, Rights, and...

Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market.
October 1, 1992... Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market. Edited by John M. Abowd and Richard B. Freeman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. viii, 432 pp. ISBN 0-22600095-8. $49.95. Major changes in trade and immigration flows in the United States...

Self-Employment: A Labor Market Perspective.
October 1, 1992... Self-Employment: A Labor Market Perspective. By Robert L. Aronson. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1991. xiii, 156 pp., ISBN 0-87546175-1. $26.00 cloth, $10.95 paper. Reading this book has made me realize that in more than 40 years of teaching...

Jobs, Earnings, and Employment Growth in the United States.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1992... Jobs, Earnings, and Employment Growth in the United States. Edited by John Kasarda. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. 133 pp. ISBN 0-7923-9105-5. $42.00. The five essays in this edited volume were originally prepared for a...

The Labor Market as a Social Institution.
October 1, 1992... The Labor Market as a Social Institution. By Robert M. Solow. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990. xviii, 116 pp. ISBN 1-55786-086-6. $19.95. There is no greater challenge to neoclassical labor market theory than the existence, and...

The Firm as a Nexus of Treaties.
October 1, 1992... The Firm As a Nexus of Treaties. Edited by Masahiko Aoki, Bo Gustafsson, and Oliver E. Williamson. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1990. 358 pp. ISBN 0-8039-8244-5. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Ronald Coase published his classic article "The...

Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty.
October 1, 1992... Ending MandatoU Retirement for Tenured Faculty. Edited by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1991. xviii, 149 pp. ISBN 0-309-04498-7. $20.00. The 1986 amendments to the Age Discrimination in...

States, Labor Markets, and the Future of Old-Age Policy.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1992... States, Labor Markets, and the Future of Old-Age Policy. Edited by John Myles and Jill Quadagno. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. vi, 324 pp. ISBN 0-87722-790-x. $49.95. In recent years, the aging of the population, rapid...

Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement.
October 1, 1992... Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement. By Eric L. Hirsch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xviii, 253 pp. ISBN 0-520-06585-9. $39.95. In Urban Revolt, sociologist Eric L. Hirsch...

A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences.
October 1, 1992... A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences. By Alice Kessler-Harris. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. xii, 168 pp. ISBN 0-81310551-x. $19.00. In A Woman's Wage, Alice Kessler-Harris addresses an issue of...

Workers in French Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
October 1, 1992... Workers in French Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Gerard Noiriel. New York: St. Martin's, 1990. xvii, 278 pp. $58.00. Labor historians have long debated what a French version of Edward Thompson's classic study of English workers,...