摘要:

Government regulations and business policies affecting employee relations are on an up ward trend, whereas the role of organized labor in private‐sector industrial relations is on a downward trend. The significance of the displacement of private‐sector unions in this transformation is not sufficiently addressed in the literature. The papers in this volume, summarized in this introduction, partly respond to this unmet need. We conclude with an agenda for future research about the labor movement, unions, and government in industrial relat

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00294.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Slower workforce growth, more gradual industrial restructuring, a tighter labor market, and the gradual emergence of a more efficient organizing capability will help to stem the projected decline in private‐sector union membership. A broad array of consumer benefits and the development of new form of union membership, such as those that do not necessarily result in exclusive recognition, should also help stem that decli

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00295.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The future role of government in industrial relations depends on the choices made by employers, workers, and especially governments. Technological change and internationalization have reduced the viability of both Keynesian economics and the mass production system, once integrally related to the industrial relations systems of industrialized democracies after the 1930s. Economic success will require new policies and high‐performance systems more appropriate for a global, knowledge‐intensive economic environ

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00296.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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A productive workforce depends on a country's educational system, the quality of its health care, training and retraining opportunities, its family policy, its labor policies with or without unions, and the quality of public services. On all counts, a significant portion of the U.S. workforce is in serious trouble. Numerous community cases and experience abroad teach that ideological boundaries in the United States inhibit the formation of new partnerships, coalitions, and forums essential to the development of more productive human resources

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00297.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In this paper we compare the changing pattern of unionization in OECD countries, reviewing existing evidence and presenting new information on union‐nonunion differentials in labor market outcomes in these countries. Our principal source of information are the micro data files of the International Social Survey Programme cross‐country surveys of 1985–87. Our analysis shows that U.S. unions have a larger effect on wages than on other outcomes than unions in other OECD countries, and we argue that the high union premium in the United States has contributed to the decline in union density and divergence of the US. industrial relations

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00298.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Employment grows about 4 percentage points per year more slowly in union than in nonunion plants. This first examination of union employment effects at the plant level suggests that unionized plants face substantial competitive pressure. As much as 61 percent of the decline in the present unionized may be accounted for by slower employment growth in union plants

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00299.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Using survey data on labor union coverage at the firm level, this paper examines union‐nonunion differences in investment activity among 706 U.S. companies during the 1970s. Consistent with a model of union rent seeking, firm‐level collective bargaining is associated with significantly lower physical capital and R&D investment, even after controlling for firm and industry characteristics. Deleterious union effects on investment are considerable throughout the 1972–80 period, but they vary across industries. Without significant changes in collective bargaining power or strategies, diminished investment activity by unionized companies is likely to exacerbate the already considerable decline in U.S. union co

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00300.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Private‐sector unions are losing their monopoly appeal because of international competition. While their voice appeal is rising among less skilled and assimilated workers, who are increasingly predominant in mass production, unions are declining among more skilled workers, who are increasingly participating in business decisions on the job. In addition, public‐sector unions are evolving from being the tools of their politician‐employers into traditional monopoly

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00301.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Through a case study of a large industrial company (TRW), this paper examines the history and functioning of independent local unions(ILUs). TRW's ILU plant wages were about the same as those at affiliated union plants and higher than those at nonunion plants. The premium explains why TRW and other companies discarded ILUs in favor of a “new” nonunion model. Yet ILUs can remedy some of the defects in that model and thus belong on the policy and research ag

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00302.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper examines the controversy surrounding advance notice within the framework of a simple jobless duration model that is based on the differential search intensity of notified and nonnotified workers. The determinants of notice are also analyzed to evaluate whether the observed benefits are a chimera produced by sample selection, and a procedure is outlined for calculating the effects of mandatory notice using voluntary notice data

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00303.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY