Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1994

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1994

Recent developments in social policy in the new European Union.
October 1, 1994... In a paper published earlier in this journal (Addison and Siebert 1991), we outlined the background to and content of the 1989 European Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers (the "Social Charter"), a declaration of...

Labor costs and the social dumping debate in the European Union.
October 1, 1994... The recent debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in North America parallels the debate that has gone on for some years in the European Union (previously known as the European Community) over the common market. In both...

Health insurance and job mobility: theory and evidence. (Health Care and the Labor Market)
October 1, 1994... The nonportability of employment-related health insurance has been recognized as an important shortcoming of the prevailing system of private health insurance in the United States. The risk of losing health insurance benefits was identified as...

Health insurance and job mobility: the effects of public policy on job-lock. (Health Care and the Labor Market)
October 1, 1994... The predominant feature of private health insurance in the United States today is its link with employment. Workplace pooling of risks has several advantages - it allows for economies of scale in administration, reduces the problem of adverse...

The effect of access to post-retirement health insurance on the decision to retire early. (Health Care and the Labor Market)
October 1, 1994... Health insurance is an important benefit for older workers and retirees. Poor health can result in large out-of-pocket expenditures and may pose a threat to economic security. Access to private health insurance is particularly important for...

Workers' preferences among company-provided health insurance plans. (Health Care and the Labor Market)
October 1, 1994... An important question for health and labor economists alike is what determines employee choices of health insurance plans. This issue is of particular relevance to the current health policy debate. Recent health care reform proposals have...

Medical cost containment under workers' compensation. (Health Care and the Labor Market)
October 1, 1994... Recent evidence indicates that spending for medical care under workers' compensation - which accounts for approximately 2% of the total health expenditures in the United States - has outpaced increases in the national health care bill for at...

Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity Under Capitalist Competition.
October 1, 1994... Recent research has revealed large interindustry wage differentials, that is, differences in wages across industries for workers with substantially the same skills and experience. Howard Botwinick argues that explanations of this phenomenon...

Bettering Our Condition: Work, Workers, and Ethics in British and German Economic Thought.
October 1, 1994... In this era of (West) European integration, it has become quite clear that labor is a laggard, continuing to remain a completely national actor. In every country, large or small, ruled by social, liberal, or Christian democrats, workers and...

Tenure, Discrimination, and the Courts.
October 1, 1994... In 1972 educational institutions came within the purview of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Since that time, faculty members from legally protected groups who are denied tenure or promotions have had the right to seek legal redress if they...

Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America.
October 1, 1994... After remaining roughly stable during the early post-World War II period, family income inequality rose dramatically during the 1970s and 1980s. Census data show that the Gini Coefficient for family incomes rose from 0.349 in 1969 to 0.401 in...

Incomparable Worth: Pay Equity Meets the Market.
October 1, 1994... Ten years ago, comparable worth was the most important pay issue being debated. The State of Minnesota had just implemented a pay equity program requiring that pay for female-dominated jobs be equated to pay for male-dominated jobs of...

Mass Immigration and the National Interest.
October 1, 1994... This is an important book. Vernon Briggs is the nation's pre-eminent institutional labor economist interested in immigration, and Mass Immigration and the National Interest is the clearest statement of Briggs's belief that U.S. immigration...

Small Differences That Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States.
October 1, 1994... Major public policy reviews arc under way in both the United States and Canada. Although these two countries have experienced many of the same economic and social forces, differences in labor market institutions and social policy have resulted...

East-West Migration: The Alternatives.
October 1, 1994... The collapse of the Berlin Wall and liberalization of emigration restrictions in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union shift the discussion of intra-European migration from cold war era political issues to the economic arena. These changes...

Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and Time in the New Corporate World.
October 1, 1994... Many of today's "hottest" organizational practices, such as TQM, self-managed teams, and flatter organizational hierarchy, seek to improve American organizations' competitiveness by increasing employee involvement. This increased involvement...

Human Resource Management and Technical Change.
October 1, 1994... Can human resource management make significant contributions to the process of technical change? In papers addressing a broad range of topics, the contributors to this volume attempt, with varying success, to provide answers to that difficult...

The Diversity Advantage: How American Business Can Outperform Japanese and European Companies in the Global Marketplace.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1994... This book proposes that companies that learn to effectively harness work force diversity (in religion, race, culture, ethnicity, sex, and sexual orientation) will produce more effective means and more innovative and timely solutions to quality...

Double Shift: Transforming Work in Postsocialist and Postindustrial Societies, A U.S.-Post-Soviet Dialogue.
October 1, 1994... Those who buy Double Shift because of its title's mention of "transforming work" may feel double-crossed, because that subject really is not the book's focus. The book is instead much more about current and prospective transformations in labor...

Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region.
October 1, 1994... Recognition of the rapidly growing economic power of several East Asian countries has been slow to arouse Western interest in the region's trade unions and the industrial relations and labor-utilization practices that have supported their...

Industrial Relations Around the World: Labor Relations for Multinational Companies.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1994... This book is a collection of 25 quite brief studies of national industrial relations systems - some far too sketchy, others very competently done. The editors had intended to assemble even more studies, but for various reasons were forced to...

Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community.
October 1, 1994... In recent years scholars have recognized the uneven character of industrialization. It did not simply involve a transformation to large mechanized, capital-intensive production with gangs of unskilled laborers and operatives. Different...

Road Transport Before the Railways: Russell's London Flying Waggons.
October 1, 1994... The evolution of road transportation follows the old maxim, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." In this book, Dorian Gerhold presents a painstakingly detailed picture of the development of road transport in Southwest England...

Capital and Labor in American Copper: 1845-1990, Linkages Between Product and Labor Markets.
October 1, 1994... George Hildebrand and Garth Mangum, so-journers for decades in the U.S. copper industry, are uniquely qualified to present an account of capital and labor in American copper. Their experiences as analysts and arbitrators give them extraordinary...

Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America.
October 1, 1994... In nineteenth-century America, unemployment was rarely perceived to be a social problem by anyone except the unemployed. As more Americans entered wage and salary work, the jobless became a source of greater concern to politicians. With the...

Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860.
October 1, 1994... Peter Way, lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex, presents in this book an internal criticism and revision of some strands of the so-called "new labor history." He has collected considerable material about the unskilled...

From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1994... With labor-backed NDP governments in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, more than a third of its work force in unions, and such social benefits as universal prepaid health care and old-age security, Canada may look like a...