Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1999

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1999

EMPLOYEE DISCHARGE AND REINSTATEMENT: MORAL HAZARDS AND THE MIXED CONSEQUENCES OF LAST CHANCE AGREEMENTS.
October 1, 1999... A last chance or return to work agreement (hereafter referred to as an LCA) is a written contract that is used to "salvage a recalcitrant employee" (Snow and Pringle 1991:514), specifically, an employee who has already been discharged or for...

DETERMINANTS OF THE SURVIVAL OF GAINSHARING PROGRAMS.
October 1, 1999... Gainsharing programs, such as the Scanlon, Modified Scanlon, Rucker, and Improshare plans, have been adopted by American corporations at an accelerating rate in the past decade.(1) Two Towers Perrin surveys, which obtained responses from the...

JOB TENURE AND JOB MOBILITY IN BRITAIN.
October 1, 1999... According to work history data from the British Household Panel Survey, men and women in Britain hold, on average, a total of five jobs during their lifetimes, and half of all lifetime job changes occur in the first ten years. Are there gender...

METHODS OF PAY AND EARNINGS: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS.
October 1, 1999... Over the past twenty years or so, a number of theoretical models have been developed to analyze the employment relationship, with a particular focus on how contracts can be structured to provide appropriate incentives. Despite the rapid pace at...

FIRMS' WAGE POLICIES AND THE RISE IN LABOR MARKET INEQUALITY: THE CASE OF PORTUGAL.
October 1, 1999... Rising inequality has characterized the evolution of labor returns in most OECD economies. The explanation of this trend is obscured by the fact that inequality increased most sharply within groups of workers with similar attributes. A shift in...

INFLATION STABILIZATION AND THE VANISHING SIZE-WAGE EFFECT.
October 1, 1999... Wage guidelines long have played a role in governments' attempts to reduce the rate of inflation. Incomes policies, as the guidelines are called, have been used extensively since the Second World War in Europe and the United States. More...

OCCUPATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND GENDER EARNINGS DIFFERENTIALS IN MEXICO.
October 1, 1999... During the years 1987-93, Mexico's economy opened up considerably and, spurred by increasing trade with the industrialized world, underwent substantial structural reforms. This experience has most likely reshaped the industrial structure of the...

DOES HIGH SCHOOL EMPLOYMENT AFFECT HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE?
October 1, 1999... In the United States and other developed countries, teens acquire human capital mainly through formal schooling. Nevertheless, a large fraction of U.S. teens allocate a substantial amount of time to the labor market. For example, data from the...

The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements.
October 1, 1999... By Julius Getman. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. 256 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3476-9, $29.95 (cloth). This detailed, moving account of the Paperworkers' 1987-88 strike at Jay, Maine, including its prelude and...

Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by James Peoples. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer, 1998. xii, 390 pp. ISBN 0-7923-8065-7, $137.50 (cloth). Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets attempts to answer the question: How was labor affected by "deregulation" in product markets? The...

Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by Francine D. Blau and Ronald G. Ehrenberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997. 336 pp. ISBN 0-87154-117-3, $42.50 (cloth). The purpose of this edited collection is to help "better understand the factors that have impeded...

Academic Couples: Problems and Promises.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by Marianne A. Ferber and Jane W. Loeb. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 323 pp. ISBN 0-252-02316-1, $49.95 (cloth); 0-252-06619-7, $19.95 (paper). While the presence of couples in academe is not a new phenomenon,...

The Welfare State in Transition: Reforming the Swedish Model.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by Richard B. Freeman, Robert Topel, and Birgitta Swedenborg. A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Conference report. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 477 pp. ISBN 0-22626178-6, $74.00 (cloth). In...

Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1998. 435 pp. ISBN 088099188-7, $33.00 (cloth); 088099-187-9, $23.00 (paper). In the preface to this volume of readings, the...

Low Pay and Earnings Mobility in Europe.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by Rita Asplund, Peter J. Sloane, and Ioannis Theodossiou. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1998. 286pp. ISBN 1-8589-8854-3, $85.00 (cloth). Within the OECD countries, earnings inequality has risen dramatically over the past twenty...

Unequal Pay for Women and Men: Evidence from the British Birth Cohort Studies.(Review)
October 1, 1999... By Heather Joshi and Pierella Paci, with Gerald Makepeace and Jane Waldfogel. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. 181 pp. ISBN 0-262-13340-7, $30.00 (cloth). Unequal Pay for Women and Men is a well-written, systematic study of trends in and...

Managing Tomorrow's High Performance Unions.(Review)
October 1, 1999... By Thomas A. Hannigan. Westport, Conn.: Quorum, 1998. 320 pp. ISBN 1-56720-102-4, $59.95 (cloth). Surprisingly few books apply concepts from private, public, or nonprofit management to labor unions. Any book that examines the internal...

Durable Goods: A Covenantal Ethic for Management and Employees.(Review)
October 1, 1999... By Stewart W. Herman. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. 240 pp. ISBN 0-2680084-3, $40.00 (cloth); 0-268-00885-X, $20.00 (paper). The author of this book, whose specialty is Christian business ethics, seeks to explain how...

The Human Resources Management Handbook, vols. 1-3.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by David Lewin, Daniel J.B. Mitchell, and Mahmood A. Zaidi. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1997. Entire set: ISBN 0-7623-0246-1, $250.00 (cloth, 890 pp.). By part: Part I, ISBN 0-7623-0247-X, $86.25 (260 pp.); Part II, ISBN 0-76230248-8,...

Regionalization and Labour Market Interdependence in East and Southeast Asia.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Edited by Duncan Campbell, Aurelio Parisotto, Anil Verma, and Asma Lateef. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 295 pp. ISBN 0 321 17703 8, $69.95 (cloth). This volume is about economic interdependence among countries in the East and Southeast...

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Human Resource Management.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... Edited by Lawrence H. Peters, Charles R. Greer, and Stuart A. Youngblood. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. 448 pp. ISBN 0-631-21079-2, $29.95 (paper). This book, intended for scholars and practitioners, is a comprehensive, intelligently formatted,...