Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 2000

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 2000

INCARCERATION AND RACIAL INEQUALITY IN MEN'S EMPLOYMENT.
October 1, 2000... BECKY PETTIT [*] To estimate employment-population ratios for black and white men with an adjustment for incarceration--a factor overlooked by most research on employment inequality--the authors combine data from surveys of prisons and...

ILLEGAL CHILD LABOR IN THE UNITED STATES: PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS.
October 1, 2000... DOUGLAS MAHONY [*] Using the Current Population Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey, and other sources, the authors provide the first comprehensive estimates of the number of minors working in violation of federal and state child...

EFFECTS OF WORK-RELATED ABSENCES ON FAMILIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE GULF WAR.
October 1, 2000... JOHN H. JOHNSON, IV [*] The Gulf War provides an opportunity to estimate the effect of work related separations on military families. Using data from the 1992 Survey of Officers and Enlisted Personnel, the authors estimate the effect of...

THE EFFECT OF EXPANDING MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE.
October 1, 2000... LARA D. SHORE-SHEPPARD [*] Federal legislation passed in the late 1980s greatly expanded the Medicaid program to include children in families with incomes at and above the poverty threshold, regardless of family structure. Using March...

HOUSEHOLD SPECIALIZATION AND THE MALE MARRIAGE WAGE PREMIUM.
October 1, 2000... LESLIE S. STRATTON [*] Empirical research has consistently shown that married men have substantially higher wages, on average, than otherwise similar unmarried men. One commonly cited hypothesis to explain this pattern is that marriage...

MALE/FEMALE EARNINGS DIFFERENCES IN SELF-EMPLOYMENT: THE EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE, CHILDREN, AND THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION OF LABOR.
October 1, 2000... GREG HUNDLEY [*] Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are used to investigate reasons for the gender earnings gap among the self-employed. Compared to...

MULTI-LEVEL BARGAINING DURING BULGARIA'S RETURN TO CAPITALISM.
October 1, 2000... This paper emphasizes the close interrelatedness among various levels of bargaining in transition economies. Focusing on the Bulgarian case, the author argues that in Bulgaria and other transition economies, neither purely national nor purely...

WOMEN IN TRANSITION: CHANGES IN GENDER WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
October 1, 2000... ELIZABETH BRAINERD [*] Under state socialism, women fared relatively well in the labor market: female-male wage differentials were similar to those in the West, and female labor force participation rates were among the highest in the...

COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENROLLMENT, COLLEGE MAJOR, AND THE GENDER WAGE GAP.
October 1, 2000... DUANE E. LEIGH [*] The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among other factors, the closing of the male-female differential in post-secondary education. This paper looks specifically at the role...

Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining. By Leo Troy. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. 256 pp. ISBN 0-7656-0469-8, $60.95 (cloth). Although industrial relations is a diverse field, trade unions and collective bargaining have long defined...

Employment Practices and Business Strategy.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Employment Practices and Business Strategy. Edited by Peter Cappelli. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vi, 226 pp. ISBN 0-19-512859-1, $29.95 (cloth). In his introduction to this book, Peter Cappelli, noting the existence of "good"...

The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India. By Patrick Heller. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. xi, 277 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3590-0, $49.95 (cloth);...

The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium. By Andrew Martin and George Ross, with Lucio Baccaro, Anthony Daley, Lydia Fraile, Chris Howell, Richard M. Locke, Rianne Mahon, and Stephen J. Silvia. New York:...

Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement. By Howard Kimeldorf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 254 pp. ISBN 0-520-21833-7, $17.95 (paper); 0-520-21832-9, $45.00 (cloth). ...

Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain. By Sidney Pollard. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999. xx, 313 pp. ISBN 0-86078-793-1, $97.95 (cloth). This book is a collection of fifteen previously published essays by the late Sidney...

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. By Judith Stein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 425 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2414-3, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4727-5, $19.95 (paper). ...