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This study examines shareholder reactions to the announcements of OSHA penalties in the press over the years 1979‐89. The analysis demonstrates that investors react negatively to the announced sanctions over the time interval immediately surrounding the announcement day. The decreases in the values of the subject firms are, however, found to be unrelated to the relative size of the penalty, to the number of non‐record‐keeping violations, and to whether the penalties were attributable to employee injury or death. The findings suggest that for the stockholders the nature of the announced OSHA sanctions is largely irrelevant, and they further point toward a reassessment of the assumed deterrent impact of the penal

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00341.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Although there has been a large amount of research on the unionnonunion salary differential in higher education, little empirical work has been done on the possible nonsalary effects of faculty unions. This paper, using data from the AAUP and other sources, investigates unionization's impact on faculty retention rates. It is found that, holding salary, benefits, and other factors constant, unions increase a school's faculty retention rate for associate and full professors (although not for assistant professors). The impact of unionization, however, is not felt until a number of years after a representation election.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00342.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Anecdotal evidence suggests that the political power of public employee unions has been a major cause of excessive growth in municipal expenditures. Previous studies, however, have not directly measured union political activities but instead have used some type of unionization or collective bargaining proxy. This paper uses unpublished data from the International City Management Association (ICMA) to develop a more direct measure of police and fire union political activity. It is found that increased union political activity leads to greater department expenditures but not necessarily to greater municipal expenditures or revenues. The results also suggest that unions increase department spending through political activity and not through the collective bargaining process itself. Further, it appears that political activity increases department spending through higher employment and not through higher compensation.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00343.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper analyzes the 1981‐87 employment shifts away from high‐wage industries, using a shift‐share framework, coupled with a two‐sector general equilibrium model. I find that (1) the shift‐share drag on average pay growth was unprecedented in the postwar period, on the order of 1/4‐1/3 percent per year, for hourly compensation; and (2) output shifts, including the trade deficit, were a more important cause of the employment shifts than were rapid productivity growth in manufacturing and other contracting industries. As a result, the shift‐share drag on average pay growth should be interpreted primarily as coming out of aggregate productivity growth, rather than as a redistribution

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00344.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Using a stratified random sample from the Michigan Bureua of Workers' Disabilitys Compensation claims files, the author examined the distribution of disability benefits across injured workers to detemine which workers have access to disability benefits in addition to workers' compensation. Using a ligit model, the result indicate that low‐income workers employed by smaller, less financially stable firms are more likely to depend exclusively on workers' compensation for income while disabled The policy implication is that the burden of the problems with workers' compensation is more likely to fall on those workers who are least able to bear i

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00345.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Using data from a survey of executives in charge of the labor relatins or human resource management funciton ar large U.S. corporations, athe authors to test the hypothesis of some unionists that management's perception of a cooperative relationship with the union is one in which the unions are pasive, willing to make concessions. and Satisfied with little or no role in the decision‐making process. We find, as have others, that those managers who are most likely to view their relationship with the union as cooperative are those who also peceive the smallest role for unions in the decision‐making proc

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00346.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Casual observations suggest that employment probation is widely used by employers but virtually no attention has been paid to the topic in the industrial relations or labor economic literature. This paper examines the reasons for the incidence of probation us in the labor market and the dispersion of observed probation lengths. The findings broaden our knowledge of this employment feature and are relevant to topics such as wage growth, employee screening, turnove, and optimal contracts because they reveal whethe theroretical medels often used to study these issues are well‐founde

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00347.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Abuse in the Workplace: Management Remedies and Bottom Line Impact. By Emily S. Bassman.Classrooms in the Workplace: Workplace Literacy Programs in Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Firms. By Kevin Hollenbeck.Culture, Self‐Identity and Work. By Miriam Erez and P. Christopher Earley.Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives. By Joanne Martin.Eastern's Armageddon: Labor Conflict and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines. By Martha Saunders.Employee Representation: Alternatives and Future Directions. Edited by Bruce E. Kaufman and Morris M. Kleiner.Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions and Communities. Edited by Charles Craypo and Bruce Nissen.Hybrid Factory: The Japanese Production System in the United States. Edited by Tetsuo Abo.In the Rings of Saturn. By Joe Sherman.The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States. By Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00348.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY