2000 54 Oct. ILR Review 59 77 Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:23:y:1969:i:1:p:3-142009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

Deals with a study that developed an equitable standard to be used in the arbitration of wage disputes among public employees. Problems with arbitration; Availability of tax resources; Determinants of need. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.) 1 1969 23 Oct. ILR Review 3 14 David B. Ross

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:29:y:1976:i:4:p:544-5642009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

Examination of the effect of the United States Office of Federal Contract Compliance on upgrading the status of minority workers in the country. Government requirements for a firm's affirmative action policies; Comparison between involuntary quotas and voluntary contracts; Selection criteria for awarding of contracts. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.) 4 1976 29 July ILR Review 544 564 James J. Heckman Kenneth I. Wolpin

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:39:y:1986:i:4:p:552-5632009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

This paper presents a method for testing whether the volume of strike activity in a unionized firm or industry is affected by the cost of such activity as measured by output lost, and applies that method to Canadian data at the one-digit SIC level. Output losses are estimated through bivariate transfer function analysis of time series data, and rank correlations between these estimates and a measure of strike activity are then calculated across industries. The results support the hypothesis that strike activity varies inversely with the cost of strikes, but this evidence is not strong, possibly due to the small sample size used in the cross-section analysis. (Abstract courtesy JSTOR.) 4 1986 39 July ILR Review 552 563 Dennis Maki

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:55:y:2002:i:3:p:448-4722009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

This paper examines employee reactions to the introduction of work teams, reduced job classifications, and skill-based pay as established through the Modern Operating Agreement (MOA) between Chrysler Corporation and the United Auto Workers. Survey data suggest that workers responded favorably to the MOA across six diverse manufacturing plants, despite variation in founding conditions. The authors draw on field research to assess differences in effects across individual plants. Individual attitudes were more negative in plants facing the threat of sell-off, although individuals in those plants also reported engaging in more of the team-based behaviors required by the MOA. Individual responses to the MOA also varied by demographic characteristics, and by perceptions of the MOA's impact on various individual, group, and organization-level outcomes. (Author's abstract.) 3 2002 55 Apr. ILR Review 448 472 Larry W. Hunter John Paul Macduffie Lorna Doucet

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:52:y:1999:i:2:p:271-2882009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

During the 1980s in Mexico the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers widened. The authors assess the extent to which this increased wage inequality was associated with Mexico's sweeping trade reform in 1985. Examining data on 2,354 Mexican manufacturing plants for 1984-90 and Mexican Industrial Census data for 1965-88, they find that the reduction in tariff protection in 1985 disproportionately affected low-skilled industries. Goods from that sector, the authors suggest, may have fallen in price because of increased competition from economies with reserves of cheap unskilled labor larger than Mexico's. The consequent increase in the relative price of skill-intensive goods could explain the increase in wage inequality. (Abstract courtesy JSTOR.) 2 1999 52 Jan. ILR Review 271 288 Gordon H. Hanson Ann Harrison

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:53:y:2000:i:2:p:272-2892009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

The authors examine the sensitivity of wage setting in two federal pay systems-the General Schedule (GS) system, covering white-collar workers, and the Federal Wage System (FWS), covering blue-collar workers-to local wages and cost-of-living. In 1978 and 1980, the years of the data, FWS wages were designed to reflect local labor market wage levels, while GS wages were intended to be responsive to national wage trends, independent of local wage levels. The authors find that FWS wages were closely tied to local external market conditions, as intended. However, GS wages, both for new hires and for longer-tenure employees, were also responsive to those conditions (though less so than FWS wages). To circumvent policies designed to screen out local labor market effects, GS administrators apparently employed such practices as assigning new employees to higher grade levels than were formally warranted. (Abstract courtesy JSTOR.) 2 2000 53 Jan. ILR Review 272 289 Craig A. Olson Donald P. Schwab Barbara L. Rau

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:17:y:1964:i:3:p:380-3982009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

Attempts to provide an analytical mechanism for evaluating, and some empirical data for evaluating, the impact of pension legislation in the Chilean labor market as a factor responsible for dualism, stagnation, and inequality. Salient aspects of social security legislation in the U.S. and Chile; Percentage of unemployed retired population. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.) 3 1964 17 Apr. ILR Review 380 398 Tom E. Davis

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:34:y:1981:i:3:p:356-3642009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

This paper proposes and tests a model designed to study the feedbacks between strikes and wages in an environment more inflationary than that analyzed in previous studies. A model embodies the hypothesis that strike activity and wage changes are jointly determined by the expectations of workers about the future price level, the target rate of growth in their real earnings, and the labor market situation as reflected in the rate of unemployment. The empirical analysis departs from most previous studies by estimating a simultaneous-equation system. The model is tested with data describing the experience in Chile from 1956 through 1973, a period during which strikes were legal and prices rose over 16,000% in that country. The results in the main support the propositions of the theoretical model. (Abstract courtesy JSTOR.) 3 1981 34 Apr. ILR Review 356 364 Mario I. Blejer

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:12:y:1958:i:1:p:20-342009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

This article explores the reasons for the divergent rulings of the several states which have passed on the legality of the integration of unemployment insurance and SUB plans. Based upon an examination of the relevant administrative rulings, court cases, and state statutes, the authors' principal conclusion is that in most instances the fate of integration was determined less by statutory language than by the political setting in which the issue was decided. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.) 1 1958 12 Oct. ILR Review 20 34 Jack Chernick Charles R. Naef

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:54:y:2001:i:3:p:631-6462009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl

Using data from the 1990 U.S. Census (PUMS 5%), the authors present the first large-scale study of wage differentials between heterosexual and homosexual men. The homosexual sample, consisting of gay men in unmarried partnered relationships, are estimated to have earned 15.6% less than similarly qualified married heterosexual men, and 2.4% less than similarly qualified unmarried partnered heterosexual men. The authors interpret these two figures as upper- and lower-bound estimates of the differential between homosexual and heterosexual men. The dual comparison enables the authors to disentangle the penalty to being unmarried from other determinants of the wage differential; estimated at 14.1%, this variable appears to be the main source of the wage gap. (Author's abstract.) 3 2001 54 Apr. ILR Review 631 646 Sylvia A. Allegretto Michelle M. Arthur

oai:RePEc:ilr:articl:v:3:y:1949:i:1:p:80-982009-04-22RePEc:ilr:articl