ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00749.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Although macroeconomic developments may seem removed from the world of micro‐level HRM‐IR practices, such practices are heavily influenced by the macro economy. Wage and price inflation, for example, are closely related, and the general state of the economy influences decisions on hiring, layoffs, and hours. The labor market's tendency toward periods of extended labor surplus or shortage condition the nature of the employer‐employee relationship. Economic circumstances affect the labor relations climate and that climate has a bearing on national productivity trends. Government policy in the future may seek to encourage certain kinds of compensation systems, such as profit sharing, for macro reasons. HRM‐IR practitioners, too, may benefit by reconsidering policies which make wages relatively inf

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00750.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article reviews recent developments in international trade theory that relate to issues of human resource management and industrial relations Some trade models with imperfectly competitive goods markets and thir liks to strategic trade and industrial policy and described. These models, results are shown to be sensitive to the incorporation of labor market imperfections. Applications of trade theory to international labor migration and human capital acquisition are also included.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00751.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper reviews some of the contributions of and challenges to human capital theory. It focuses on the alleged link between earings and education and experience and on competing explanations for observed earning differentis by race and by gender. The review concludes that while human capital theory provides some central insights about the supply side of the labor market, the challenges to this theory suggest that the demand side od the market, i.e., the actions of human resource managers, also play a key role in detemining earnings and employment. Moreover, these challenges suggest that government policies can be instrmental in effecting a more efficient and equitable use of human resources.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00752.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Our essay focuses on the economics of long‐term contractual relationships between a firm and its employees, referred to as the internal labor market. We review the economics literature on match‐specific investments, risk aversion, asymmetric information, and transaction costs. We argue that an integrated treatment of all four factors is needed in order to apply implicit contract theoy to internal labor markets. Integrating the topics also highlights the tradeoffs created among these factors. Our discussion stresses contract enforcement mechanisms, including self‐enforcing contracts and third‐party enfo

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00753.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper examines labor‐oriented aspects of pensions and deferred benefits. Recent work has embedded pensions in the framework of optimal compensation schemes that induce workers to behave in certain ways. Most pension formaulas present workers with securities that look like optioons the tendency for turnover rates to fall as vesting approaches, even though there has been no change in the naive valuation of pension accrual. The paper also discusses the use of pensions as severance pay and notes that the various pension formaulas have different incentive effect

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00754.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In the first part of this paper, the importance of concerted behavior by workers emerges from examination of some prominent theories which set out to explain wage rigidity in the face of declining demand or excess supply without abandoning key elements of competitive theory. In the second part, the imoportance of certain Keynesian and satificing behavioral postulates in motivating concerted worker behavior is suggested by the shortcomings of some contemporary econmic models of the trade union which assume expected utility maximization and accurate knowledge of market conditions under ordinary circumstances.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00755.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper reviews recent research on the economics of unions and collective bargaining, emphasizing the implications for human resource management. Research findings on the impact of unions, strategic union avoidance behavior by management, strategic use of labor law by unions and employers, and conflict and conflict resolution in labor relations are discussed. The paper highlights unexploited connections between research on unioun impact and research on strategic behavior.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00756.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The new institutional labor economics is a promising development, but it has faults that could be remedied by an infusion of theoretical and methodological insights from the old institutional approach. This claim is illustrated by a critical analysis of three key concepts: asset specificity, defefrred rewards, and opportunism. The essay concludes with a set of methodological precepts to guide future research.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00757.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1990.tb00758.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY