Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1997

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1997

The influence of industrial relations factors on U.S. foreign direct investment abroad.
October 1, 1997... One increasingly important dimension of global competition is foreign direct investment. The latest publicly available data indicate that real U.S. foreign direct investment grew by 85% over the 1982-93 period. As of 1993 there were approximately...

Do unions reduce investment? Evidence from Canada.
October 1, 1997... This paper examines the relationship between the level of industry unionization and industry investment. This is an important empirical issue because the theoretical impact of unions on investment is uncertain. There are two competing models...

Worker performance and group incentives: a case study.
October 1, 1997... It is well known that firms have difficulty getting the desired level of productivity out of their workers. Piece rate wages and individual incentive plans can lead to higher individual effort, but these systems present problems. First, they do...

Loyalty, voice, and intent to exit a union firm: a conceptual and empirical analysis.
October 1, 1997... It is well known that grievance procedures are pervasive in unionized firms, and such procedures also appear to have become widespread in nonunion firms in recent years (Ichniowski and Lewin 1988; Peterson 1992). Scholarly work on grievance...

The impact of psychiatric disorders on labor market outcomes.
October 1, 1997... This study examines the impact of psychiatric disorders (both mental and substance use disorders) on employment rates, work hours, and personal income. Although physical disability is known to be an important determinant of labor market outcomes,...

Delayed formal on-the-job training.
October 1, 1997... The stylized fact that job mobility declines steeply during the first several years of tenure has three possible explanations. First, it can be explained by statistical composition effects that result from differences in individuals' underlying...

Does a GED lead to more training, post-secondary education, and military service for school dropouts? (General Educational Development certificate)
October 1, 1997... Changes in the U.S. economy have dramatically reduced labor market opportunities for school dropouts. Between 1979 and 1993 the median real earnings of 25-34-year-old dropouts declined by 34% for men and 18% for women.(1) One reason for the...

Labor market effects of Hawaii's mandatory employer-provided health insurance.
October 1, 1997... Although it appears that health insurance reform is on hold for the time being, a key issue in the health care debate that will almost certainly reappear in the near future is whether to have an employer or individual mandate. The Clinton...

Epitaph for American Labor: How Union Leaders Lost Touch with America.
October 1, 1997... Max Green's Epitaph for American Labor is a polemic by a former trade unionist against the contemporary labor movement. Green seeks to convince the reader that John Sweeney's leadership of the AFL-CIO completes a process of leftward drift that...

The New American Reality: Who We Are, How We Got Here, Where We Are Going.
October 1, 1997... In this book Reynolds Farley provides us with a comprehensive look at the major changes in American society from 1950 to the 1990s. Relying primarily on U.S. Census data, he traces changes in the nation's economy, family structure, migration, and...

The Case for Tenure.
October 1, 1997... The Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended in 1987, which eliminated mandatory retirement for American college and university professors effective January 1, 1994, has led to concerns about the continued viability of the faculty tenure...

Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children.
October 1, 1997... Compared to previous generations, children today are more likely to be born to an unwed mother, to live with a single parent, to have both parents participate in the labor force, to live in poverty, to use drugs, or, eventually, to commit...

Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, Their Symptoms and Policy Responses.
October 1, 1997... There is a growing feeling among policy analysts and economists that private markets fail to provide an optimal level of job skills, especially to the disadvantaged. So pervasive is this view that James Heckman, Rebecca Roselius, and Jeffrey...

Labor Shortages as America Approaches the Twenty-First Century.
October 1, 1997... The focus of this book is the formation of a regression model used to identify occupations in which labor shortages will occur during the next decade. This model is based on well-known research findings showing that it is better to estimate labor...

Job Creation and Destruction.
October 1, 1997... Although the authors of this book were not the first to note the degree of job creation and destruction occurring in U.S. manufacturing industry, their work has been the most complete, comprehensive, and readily accessible. They have provided the...

What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers.
October 1, 1997... In a recent review article, Daniel Hamermesh described the study of labor demand as the "intellectual stepchild" of labor economics. Not only is the theory appropriated from production theory, he argued, but the attention devoted to the subject...

Single World, Divided Nations.
October 1, 1997... This book provides an excellent overview of the recent outpouring of research on the impact of trade on wages, particularly wages in the United States. Although the entire OECD is nominally included, most of the literature reviewed and discussed...

Investment in Women's Human Capital.
October 1, 1997... The interesting and diverse papers in this volume, largely empirical in nature, analyze issues related to women's human capital and economic development. The book is most valuable for scholars in family economics, human capital, and economic...

Unions, Management, and Quality: Opportunities for Innovation and Excellence.
October 1, 1997... This book is a plug for union participation in quality programs as well as a partial guide to the major pitfalls that union involvement in such programs might encounter. There is also a secondary message: managers of unionized plants should...

Learning to Work: The Case for Reintegrating Job Training and Education.
October 1, 1997... This book argues that the current system of federal job training has become unresponsive to current challenges of underemployment, poverty, and unemployment due to a disconnection between the job training system and the education system. W....

Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry.
October 1, 1997... In these turbulent days of industrial transformation, globalization, and workplace reorganization, images of the past point the way to the departures of the future. A dominant image of the workplace and its labor-capital relations from the end of...

Trade Unions and Democratic Participation in Europe: A Scenario for the 21st Century.
October 1, 1997... The central argument motivating the project that led to the publication of this book is that "participation is a basic human right and that ultimately, political democracy cannot flourish without social and economic democracy." Although Kester...

Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike.
October 1, 1997... In 1929 a wave of particularly bitter strikes swept over the American South, many of them in some of the country's largest textile mills. John Salmond artfully chronicles the history of one of the more famous of these strikes at the Loray Mills...

Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal.
October 1, 1997... Within a political economy mobilized to fight depression at home and wars abroad, Arthur Goldberg (1908-90) belonged to a special cadre of American Jews making important contributions to social welfare policies and to a relatively stable...

Talking Union.
October 1, 1997... In these two oral histories, the authors distill for publication the taped interviews of worker activists who played important roles in twentieth-century American labor history. While both books fall squarely within the genre of oral narrative,...

Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975.
October 1, 1997... In these two oral histories, the authors distill for publication the taped interviews of worker activists who played important roles in twentieth-century American labor history. While both books fall squarely within the genre of oral narrative,...

The U.S. Labor Movement: References and Resources.
October 1, 1997... This new annotated bibliography on the U.S. labor movement is the latest volume in the G.K. Hall Reference Publications on American Social Movements. Previous volumes have provided bibliographic guides to other contemporary social movements such...