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Wage and Occupational Differences Between Black and White Men: Labor Market Discrimination in the Rural South
(1978-07-01)"The existence of labor market discrimination based on race is well established.However, study continues into a variety of aspects of discrimination-among them the extent to which it exists in different regions. Gwartney ... -
Wage Floors and Economic Development
(1986-12-01)[Excerpt] I shall refer to minimum wages and other wage-increasing institutions collectively as "wage floors." Throughout the paper, they are assumed to be set in real terms, therefore not be eroded by inflation or ... -
Wage Floors and Unemployment: A Two-Sector Analysis
(1997-01-01)This paper analyzes the effect of a wage floor on unemployment. Using a model with covered and noncovered sectors, comparative static analysis is performed with respect to the size of the wage floor, the elasticity of ... -
Wage-Setting Institutions and Economic Growth
(1989-01-01)Wage-setting institutions in several Asian and Latin American economies are compared and contrasted. The Asian economies have relied more on market wage determination, whereas the Latin American economies have encouraged ... -
Waging the War for Talent: Do Recruitment and Screening Strategies Raise Employee Performance?
(2005-05-25)We use data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to provide an empirical answer to the question, “Do recruitment and screening strategies raise employee performance?” Our approach differs from previous empirical ... -
Walking the Talk: The Impact of High Commitment Values and Practices on Technology Start-ups
(2004-08-14)We examine the impact of high commitment work systems (HCWS) on high-technology start-ups. We differentiate two components of a HCWS: the human resource practices and the espoused values of the firm's leadership and ... -
Wall Street Likes its Women: An Examination of Women in the Top Management Teams of Initial Public Offerings
(1999-04-01)[Excerpt] As part of an overall research project exploring the determinants of initial public offering (IPO) firm success, I examine the effect of having women on the top management teams of IPO firms on the organizations’ ... -
We'll Close! Plant Closings, Plant-Closing Threats, Union Organizing and NAFTA
(1997-03-01)This article is based on Final Report: The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize. The report was commissioned by the tri-national Labor Secretariat of the Commission for ... -
Wege zur Transformation gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsstrukturen
(2003-09-01)[Excerpt] Bei einer länderübergreifenden Betrachtung erweist sich die Neubelebung der Arbeiterbewegung als ein komplexer Prozess des Wandels, der je nach soziopolitischem und ökonomischem Kontext variiert.Zwar lassen sich ... -
Welfare Reform and the Plight of the Poor in the Rural South
(1978-04-01)[Excerpt] The major discussions of welfare reform today center on: (1) who would be affected—primarily recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children— and, for the first time, households headed by men regardless of ... -
Welfare Reform, Precarity and the Re-Commodification of Labour
(2015-05-01)While welfare reform matters for workers and workplaces, it is peripheral in English-language sociology of work and industrial relations research. This article’s core proposition is that active labour market policies (ALMPs) ... -
Welfare Reform: The View from New Hampshire and Massachusetts
(1978-04-01)As he promised during his election campaign, President Carter has proposed a major overhaul of the welfare system. Under the Better Jobs and Income Act, unveiled in August 1977, the major components of the current welfare ... -
What a Difference a Decade Makes: Growing Wealth Inequality Among Ivy League Institutions
(2001-05-03)[Excerpt] The eight Ivy League institutions – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale - are among our nations most selective undergraduate institutions. They also are among its ... -
What are the Effects of Work Restructuring on Employee Well-Being and Firm Performance? Evidence from Telecommunications Services
(1995-05-20)The purpose of this study was to assess whether there are benefits to employees and firms associated with new forms of work organization and human resource and industrial relations practices. I examine a series of interrelated ... -
What Collective Bargaining Promises and What it Does
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] From the outset of my career in teaching, I have been deeply interested in the question of freedom. This interest is in part due to my upbringing and in part is the result of my academic training. Not only its ... -
What Did Unions Do in Nineteenth-Century Britain?
(1988-06-01)The article examines the development of the insurance function of trade unions. It analyzes how such policies worked, and why union benefit packages differed across occupations. It also addresses the impact of insurance ... -
What is Labor’s True Purpose? The Implications of SEIU’s Unite to Win Proposals for Organizing
(2005-07-01)[Excerpt] That labor is in a crisis cannot be questioned. While there may be some labor leaders who are content to keep ministering to an ever less powerful, shrinking base, there were few in the room that day that would ... -
What is the Practical Relevance of Dispositional Effects on Job Satisfaction?
(1990-12-01)A review of research on dispositional effects on job satisfaction reveals two potential practical implications. First, it has been suggested that personnel programs designed to increase satisfaction levels may not have ... -
What Should Be the Federal Role In Supporting And/Or Shaping Development Of State Accountability Systems For Secondary School Achievement?
(2002-06-01)In the 1960s U.S. participation rates in secondary education were the highest in the world. This is no longer true. According to the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) data…enrollment rates of 16 ... -
What Types of Organizations Benefit from Team Production, and How Do They Benefit?
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] Using data from a large cross section of British establishments, we ask how different firm characteristics are associated with the predicted benefits to organizational performance from using team production. To ...
