Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 2001

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 2001

THE GENDER GAP IN TOP CORPORATE JOBS.
October 1, 2001... KEVIN F. HALLOCK [*] Using the ExecuComp data set, which contains information on the five highest-paid executives in each of a large number of U.S. firms for the years 1992-97, the authors examine the gender compensation gap among...

THE WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR WORK/FAMILY POLICIES: A STUDY OF TEACHERS.
October 1, 2001... T. LYNN RIGGS [*] Recent evidence suggests that employers and employees may benefit from work/family policies and that even non-beneficiaries may support such policies. The authors posit that these policies generate not only "use" values...

UNION ORGANIZING UNDER NEUTRALITY AND CARD CHECK AGREEMENTS.
October 1, 2001... JILL KRIESKY [*] Collectively bargained language concerning union organizing has become increasingly common. Typically included in such language is the employer's agreement to remain neutral in the organizing process, or to recognize...

CHANGES IN EARNINGS INSTABILITY AND JOB LOSS.
October 1, 2001... ANN HUFF STEVENS [*] This paper examines the contribution of job loss or displacement to increasing male earnings instability between 1970 and 1991. Earnings instability increased among both displaced and not-displaced men, so changes...

THE WEALTH OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
October 1, 2001... JONATHAN GRUBER [*] Many studies have investigated the adequacy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as a form of income replacement, but few have looked at other resources with which the unemployed can finance their unemployment...

WORKERS AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION: THE IMPACT OF TRADE REFORMS IN MEXICO ON WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT.
October 1, 2001... ZADIA M. FELICIANO [*] Between 1986 and 1990, the Mexican government reduced tariffs and import license coverage by more than 50%. The author, using micro-level data, analyzes the impact of trade reform on Mexican wages and employment....

THE EARNINGS AND EMPLOYMENT OF NURSES IN AN ERA OF COST CONTAINMENT.
October 1, 2001... EDWARD J. SCHUMACHER [*] Previous research has shown that from the 1980s through the early 1990s, nurses enjoyed substantial wage and employment gains that stemmed, to some extent, from increased labor demand. Using individual data for...

HEALTHCARE REFORM AND THE WORKPLACE EXPERIENCE OF NURSES: IMPLICATIONS FOR PATIENT CARE AND UNION ORGANIZING.
October 1, 2001... DENNIS G. SHEA [*] The introduction of market-based reforms over the past twenty-five years has fundamentally changed the way healthcare is delivered in the United States. This paper reports the results of a survey of the workplace...

WHY EMPLOYERS USE FLEXIBLE STAFFING ARRANGEMENTS: EVIDENCE FROM AN ESTABLISHMENT SURVEY.
October 1, 2001... SUSAN N. HOUSEMAN [*] Drawing on a nationally representative survey of private sector establishments, the author presents new evidence on which employers use flexible staffing arrangements and why they use them. The surveyed employers made...

Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. By J. Paul Leigh, Steven Markowitz, Marianne Fahs, and Philip Landrigan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 328 pp. ISBN 0-472-11081-0, $49.50 (cloth). The sizable costs of...

Issues in the Economics of Immigration.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Issues in the Economics of Immigration. Edited by George J. Borjas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 399 pp. ISBN 0-226-06631-2, $55.00 (cloth). This volume consists of nine papers prepared for a January 1998 National Bureau of...

Women and Work.
October 1, 2001... Women and Work. By Richard P. Chaykowski and Lisa M. Powell. McGill, Ont.: Queen's University Press, 1999. viii, 306 pp. ISBN 0-88911-806-X, $49.95 (cloth); 0-88911-808-6, $18.95 (paper). In recent decades, gender issues in the workplace...

Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off. By Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press) for the Economic Policy Institute, 2000....

Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much. By Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 322 pp. ISBN 0-674-00328-4, $39.95 (cloth). The starting point for Ronald Ehrenberg's Tuition Rising is the stark reality...

High School Career Academies: A Pathway to Educational Reform in Urban School Districts?(Review)
October 1, 2001... High School Career Academies: A Pathway to Educational Reform in Urban School Districts? By Nan Maxwell and Victor Rubin. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2000. 237 pp. ISBN 0-88099-212-3, $34.00 (cloth);...

Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region. Edited by Chris Rowley and John Benson. London: Frank Cass, 2000. 314 pp. ISBN 0-7146-5035-8, $59.50 (cloth); 0-7146-8089-3, $26.50 (paper). Rowley and Benson and the 23 contributors to...

Construction Workers.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Construction Workers, U.S.A. By Herbert Appelbaum. Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1999. 248 pp. ISBN 0-313-30937, $59.95 (cloth). Studies of the so-called "New Economy" seem to be in vogue these days, maybe because there are good...

Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable, and the Decline of Construction Unions.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable, and the Decline of Construction Unions. By Marc Linder. Iowa City: Fanpihun, 2000. xix, 430 pp. ISBN 0-9673899-0-9, $15.00 (paper). During the past thirty years, the building trades...

Labor Statistics Measurement Issues.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Labor Statistics Measurement Issues. Edited by John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser, and Robert Topel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (NBER Series), 1999. 478 pp. ISBN 0-226-31458-8, $60.00 (cloth). In empirical labor economics, data...