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Are School Superintendents Rewarded for “Performance”?
(1988-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter presents analyses of the compensation and mobility of school superintendents in New York State during the 1978-79 to 1982-83 period. The focus is on school superintendents because they are the chief ... -
Are Social Prediction Errors Universal? Predicting Compliance with a Direct Request across Cultures
(2011-01-01)Previous research conducted in the United States has demonstrated that help-seekers fail to appreciate the embarrassment and awkwardness (i.e., social costs) targets would experience by saying “no" to a request for help. ... -
Ask in Person: You’re Less Persuasive Than You Think Over Email
(2016-01-01)Research has found people underestimate the likelihood strangers will comply with their direct requests (Bohns, 2016; Flynn & Lake, 2008). Here we argue this “underestimation- of-compliance effect” may be limited to requests ... -
Ask the Jobless If Marx Is Relevant
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Aspirations to Manage: A Comparison of Engineering Students and Working Engineers
(1988-01-01)Many, perhaps most, individuals who are trained as engineers eventually become managers. However, the reasons for this occupational transition are unclear. The present study examines the occupational aspirations (technical ... -
Assault on Workers’ Rights
(1994-01-01)The cases in this report describe employers' blatant contempt for the rights of workers to voice their opinions in the workplace. Obsessed with retaining unilateral and total authority over their employees, the owners of ... -
Assessing Assessments: A Survey of Efforts to Measure Countries’ Compliance with Freedom of Association Standards
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] This article surveys efforts by governmental and nongovernmental organizations to assess countries' compliance with core labor standards on workers' freedom of association. The relevant standards are Conventions ... -
Assessing Progress Toward Greater Equality of Income Distribution
(1976-12-31)This paper examines the suitability of increases in income equality as a criterion for assessing "commitment" and "progress" of countries, and hence, for allocating development assistance in accordance with the 1975 ... -
Assessing Progress toward Greater Equality of Income Distribution
(1980-01-01)[Excerpt] Income distribution is only one indicator of economic well-being useful in gauging improvements in the economic position of the poor; change in income distribution, appropriately conceived and measured, is as ... -
Assessing the Impact of Job Loss on Workers and Firms
(2006-04-01)Many economists agree that the United States’ openness to competition and technological change raises our living standards, but sometimes results in job losses. This article summarizes “Job Loss: Causes Consequences, and ... -
Assessing the Scope of Immigrant Organizations: Official Undercounts and Actual Underrepresentation
(2012-01-01)We examine the official scope and actual coverage of immigrant civil society in seven California cities using a widely employed 501(c)3 database. First, we code immigrant organizations in official data and compare their ... -
Assessment of the Progress of Nations on Core Labor Standards: Measures of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
(2010-07-01)The linkage between labor standards and trade agreements pursued by the US, and the burgeoning corporate codes of conduct that seek to strengthen core labor standards in global supply chains, has resulted in interest in ... -
At a Crossroad: Immigration Reform and American Unionism
(2002-01-01)"Since the founding days of the Republic, the relationship between American unionism and mass immigration has been contentious. No issue has caused the labor movement more agony and irony. It is no surprise, therefore, ... -
Attitudes Towards Work And The Market Economy In Bulgaria
(1992-08-17)[Excerpt] As in the reports on Poland (Ruiz Quintanilla 1992a) and Hungary (Ruiz Quintanilla 1992b), this summary will center on how life has changed in Bulgaria as evaluated by the Bulgarian people. The domain of interest ... -
Attitudes Towards Work and the Market Economy in Hungary
(1992-05-16)[Excerpt] A common approach in describing countries in Eastern and Central Europe is to focus on similarities among them currently and in their past but to neglect differences. This approach utilizes broad categories as ... -
Attitudes Towards Work and the Market Economy in Poland
(1992-04-16)[Excerpt] The results of the June, 1989 elections demonstrated the willingness of a majority of the Polish people to initiate the change from a one-party regime to political pluralism. While the past has been rejected, ... -
Attitudes Towards Work and the Market Economy in the Czech and Slovak Republics
(1992-09-08)[Excerpt] This report is the final in a series of four reports whose main purpose is to present a preliminary overview of attitudes towards work and the market economy in four Eastern and Central European countries (actually ... -
Author’s Reply to Wheeler-Getman-Brody Papers
(2002-03-01)[Excerpt] The contributions of Hoyt Wheeler, Julius Getman and David Brody in the December issue of this journal give important insights into strengths and weaknesses of the Human Rights Watch Report on workers' rights in ... -
Automobile Workers Strikes
(2009-01-01)Automobile workers' strikes occurred in essentially four eras: the lost strikes by the industry's craft unions in the early twentieth century, the dramatic sit-down victories of the 1930s, the mixture of wildcat and ... -
Awakening the Giant: The Revitalization of the American Labor Movement
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The key to the contemporary revival of the American labor movement is precisely a renewed mobilization of the rank and file. Based on our combined research and work in labor education and representation, we believe ...
