Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1993

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1993

The decentralization of collective bargaining: a literature review and comparative analysis.
October 1, 1993... Reports have appeared since the early 1980s suggesting that the locus of collective bargaining is shifting downward in a number of countries, often from a national or multi-company level to the firm or plant level. This paper reviews evidence...

Trucking deregulation and the black/white wage gap.
October 1, 1993... Several studies have documented the existence of black/white wage gaps in regulated industries. The recent trend toward less stringent regulation may have lowered the racial wage gap, however, by making it increasingly costly for employers to...

Do workers accurately perceive gender wage discrimination?
October 1, 1993... Over the past two decades economists have estimated progressively more sophisticated measures of gender discrimination. These estimates, all of which examine unexplained residuals, follow from single equation methods, the original Oaxaca (1973)...

Teachers' attitudes toward merit pay: examining conventional wisdom.
October 1, 1993... Controversy over merit pay and other forms of performance-based pay has marked the debate on education reform since the early 1980s. Teacher unions have been among the strongest opponents of such plans (Calhoun and Protheroe 1983). At the state...

Is unemployment insurance addictive? Evidence from the benefit durations of repeat users.
October 1, 1993... The relationship between the receipt of unemployment insurance (UI) and individual labor market behavior has attracted much attention. The vast literature on this relationship deals mainly with the "static disincentives" associated with...

Spillover effects between the insured and uninsured unemployed.
October 1, 1993... The disincentive effects of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system have been extensively studied by economists over the past two decades. Both theoretical and empirical analyses conclude that an increase in the level of UI benefits will...

The effect of employee benefits on the demand for part-time workers.
October 1, 1993... By most recent estimates, 18% of the U.S. labor force, and about 27% of working women, are on tie job less than 35 hours per week (Blank 1990b). It has been hypothesized that because their shorter hours, these part-time workers are likely to be...

Voting behavior in union representation elections: the influence of skill homogeneity and skill group size.
October 1, 1993... The dramatic decline in successful organizing drives has spurred important studies of union organizing ability. Recent work has examined the roles of sectoral shifts, employer resistance to unionization, and changing labor force demographics...

The effects of union membership on wages and employee benefits: the case of Australia.
October 1, 1993... Previous studies have estimated the union wage effect in Australia to range from near zero to 13-15%. Miller and Mulvey (1992a) also found that union members in Australia arc more likely than nonmembers to receive fringe benefits such as...

The Economics of Organizational Choice: Workers, Jobs, Labor Markets, and Implicit Contracting.
October 1, 1993... Workers, Jobs, Labor Markets, and Implicit Contracting. By Marvin E. Rozen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. ix, 202 pp. ISBN 0472102788. $37.50 cloth. This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the economic...

Industrial Relations in Canadian Industry.
October 1, 1993... Labor-Management Relations Edited by Richard P. Chaykowski and Anil Verma. Toronto: Dryden (a division of Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, Limited), 1992. 491 pp. ISBN 0-03-922877-0. During the 1980s, the Canadian economy was...

Alcohol and Other Drugs: Issues in Arbitration.
October 1, 1993... Issues in Arbitration. By Tia Schneider Denenberg and R. V. Denenberg. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 1991.387pp. ISBN 0-87179-687-2. $47.00 cloth. In the interest of full disclosure, there is one intriguing question to...

Japan's California Factories: Labor Relations and Economic Globalization.
October 1, 1993... Labor Relations and Economic Globalization. By Ruth Milkman. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, 1991. xviii, 130 pp. ISBN 0-89215-1714. $11.00. This well-researched monograph had its origin in a simple question: are the...

The New Politics of British Trade Unionism: Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy.
October 1, 1993... Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy. By David Marsh. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1992. 268 pp. ISBN 0-87546-704-0,$36.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-87546-705-9, $17.95 (paper). This book is the single most comprehensive account available of the impact...

Politics Within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil.
October 1, 1993... Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil By Ben Ross Schneider. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. xxiii, 337 pp. ISBN 0-8229-3689-5. $49.95 cloth. In this admirably written analysis of bureaucratic...

Legislating for Conflict.
October 1, 1993... By Simon Auerbach. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xxv, 256pp. ISBN 0-19-825275-7. $69.00 cloth. In the past decade there have been major changes in industrial relations law in Britain. Five Acts of Parliament and a number of...

The Railway Labor Act and the Dilemma of Labor Relations.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1993... By Frank N. Wilmer. Omaha, Neb.: Simmons-Boardman, 191. 209 pp. ISBN 0-911382-12-7. Frank N. Wilner Assistant Vice President of the Association of American Railroads in Washington, D.C., has written an excellent treatise on the Railway...

Women and Social Security: Progress Towards Equality of Treatment.
October 1, 1993... By Anne-Marie Brocas, Anne-Marie Cailloux and Virginie Oget. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1990. 116 pp. ISBN 92-2-10559-0. Using examples largely from industrialized countries, the authors of this book review progress toward equal...

Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work.
October 1, 1993... By Marjorie DeVault. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 257 pp. ISBN 0-226-14359-7. "The underlying principles of housework must be made visible. The work must be separable from the one who does it, instead of in the traditional...

EBRI DATABOOK on Employee Benefits, 2d ed.
October 1, 1993... By Joseph s. Piacentini and Jill D. Foley. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Employee Benefit Research Institute, 1992. v, 559 pp. ISBN 0-86643-076-8. $35.95. U.S. policy makers and researchers interested in health insurance, retirement, and other...

Expanding the Employer-Provided Health Insurance System.
October 1, 1993... By Sheila R. Zedlewski. Lanham, Md.: The Urban Institute Press, 1991. 99 pp. ISBN 0-87766-508-7, $29.75 (cloth); ISBN 0-87766-509-5, $14.75 (paper). Increased access to health insurance and to health care is at the forefront of current...

Structural Changes in U.S. Labor Markets.
October 1, 1993... Edited by Randall W. Eberts and Erica L. Groshen. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1992. 250 pp. ISBN 0-87332-825-6. $39.95 cloth. The surprisingly low rate of nominal wage inflation during the latter half of the 1980s is the motivation for this...

In Search of Flexibility: The New Soviet Labor Market.
October 1, 1993... Edited by Guy Standing. Geneva: ILO Publications, 1991. xiv, 440 pp. ISBN 92-2-1077446. This volume consists of 19 papers selected from those presented at a conference organized by the ILO in Moscow in October 1991. The vast majority of...

The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life.
October 1, 1993... By Richard H. Thaler. New York: The Free Press (a Division of Macmillan, Inc.), 1992. ix, 230 pp. ISBN 0-02-932465-3. $22.95. Economists traditionally model human behavior as rational and self-interested. An argument for this approach is...

In Pursuit of the Ph.D.
October 1, 1993... By William G. Bowen and Neil G. Rudenstine. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. 442 pages. ISBN 0-692-04294-2. $35.00 cloth. In these times of pinched financial resources, unpredictable enrollments, and the impending...

The Climate of Workplace Relations.
October 1, 1993... By Ali Dastmalchian, Paul Blyton, and Raymond Adamson. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1991. xiii, 215 pp. $69.95. At a time when both the popular press and the academic press appear to be captivated by laudatory case studies of...

Joint Training Programs: A Union-Management Approach to Preparing Workers for the Future.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1993... By Louis A. Ferman, Michele Hoyman, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Ernst J. Savoie. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1991. 288 p. ISBN 0-87546-177-8. $32.00 cloth, $16.85 paper. Joint Training Programs discusses the scope and methods of...

Merit Pay: Linking Pay Increases to Performance Ratings.
October 1, 1993... By Robert Heneman. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1992. 298 pp. ISBN 0-201-52504-6. $17.56 paper. Heneman's Merit Pay is an important contribution to the literature on compensation management. Despite surveys indicating that a majority of...

Transforming Organizations.
October 1, 1993... Edited by Thomas A. Kochan and Michael Useem. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xi, 420 pp. ISBN 0-19-506504-2. $29.95. Kochan and Michael open Transforming Organizations by reminding us that it is over 30 years since Douglas...

The Healthy Company: Eight Strategies to Develop People, Productivity, and Profits.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1993... By Robert H. Rosen. New York: St. Martin's, 1991. 315 pp. ISBN 0-87447-655-4. $22.95. A wide gap between the needs of employees and the business needs of firms is a key stylized fact in the field of human resource management. Policies are...

The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo.
October 1, 1993... By John D. French. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. 378 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2029-6. $47.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. This book examines the formation of an industrial working class in twentieth-century Sao Paulo and workers'...

Status Influences in Third World Labor Markets: Caste, Gender, and Custom.
October 1, 1993... Edited by James G. Scoville. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. 329 pp. ISBN 3-11-012647-8; ISBN 0-89925-746-1. $69.95 cloth. This book comprises 13 contributions based mainly on revised papers presented to various International...

The Shape of the New Europe.
October 1, 1993... Edited by Gregory F. Traventon. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1992. 232 pp. ISBN 0-87609-107-9. $16.95. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth (or was it just the other day?), there was a stable, bipolar world order. This...

Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America.
October 1, 1993... By Jonathan A. Glickstein. New Heaven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991. 498 pp. ISBN 0-300-04789-4. $50.00. The first half of the nineteenth century in America was a period of rapid industrialization and growing controversy about the...

International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War.
October 1, 1993... By Dennis MacShane. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. x, 3224 pp. ISBN-0-19-827366-5. $68.00. Uncommon are scholarly studies that explore the institutions of international trade unionism, and even more rare are those that seek to show causal...

Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force.
October 1, 1993... By Alboro Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. vii, 428 pp. ISBN 0-19-503853-3. $29.95. In Railroads Triumphant, Albro Martin explores what he sees as "the Grand Paradox in the history of American material civilization,"...

The War on Labor and the Left: Understanding American's Unique Conservatism.
October 1, 1993... By Patricia Cayo Sexton. Boulder Col.: Westview, 1991. 325 pp. ISBN 0-8133-1062-8. $24.95 cloth. In this thoughtful and sweeping survey, Patricia Sexton, a professor of sociology at New York University, reexamines a question that has...

New Approaches to Economic and Social Analyses of Discrimination.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1993... Edited by Richard R. Cornwall and Phanindra V. Wunnava. New York: Praeger, 1991. ISBN 0-275-93581-7. $49.95. This book contains 13 chapters by economists and sociologists (mostly the former) on various aspects of racial and gender...