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Underinvestment in Employer Training: Is a Mandate to Spend on Training the Answer?
(1993-01-01)American employers and their workers under invest in employer training. Under investment occurs because training generates externalities, because the tax system is biased against training investments, and because most ... -
Underinvestment in on-the Job Training?
(1991-01-01)[Excerpt] A growing number of commentators are pointing to employer sponsored training (OJT)as a critical ingredient in a nation's competitiveness. American employers appear to devote less time and resources to the training ... -
Undocumented Workers: Crossing the Borders of Immigration and Workplace Law
(2012-04-01)[Excerpt] This Article endeavors to comprehensively outline the emerging field of immployment law. As this Article specifies below, this field broadly includes empirical, legislative, administrative, judicial, and other ... -
Uneasy Terrain: The Impact of Capital Mobility on Workers, Wages, and Union Organizing. Part II: First Contract Supplement
(2001-06-01)In September 2000 we submitted our research report, "Uneasy Terrain: The Impact of Capital Mobility on Workers, Wages, and Union Organizing," to the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission. The findings from our study were ... -
Uneasy Terrain: The Impact of Capital Mobility on Workers, Wages, and Union Organizing
(2000-09-06)In May 2000, the United States Trade Deficit Review Commission contracted with Cornell University to conduct a study updating Cornell’s previous research on the impact of plant closings and threats of plant closings on ... -
Unemployment and the UK Labour Market Before, During and After the Golden Age
(2005-04-01)During the ‘golden age’ of the 1950s and 1960s unemployment in Britain averaged 2 per cent. This was far lower than ever before or since and a number of hypotheses have been put forward to account for this unique period ... -
Unemployment Insurance and Strikes
(1992-01-01)In several states workers who are unemployed because of a labor dispute can collect unemployment benefits. Due to imperfect experience rating, such policies can create a public subsidy to strikes. This study examines whether ... -
Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gain
(1976-12-01)[Excerpt] In order to evaluate what the "optimal" level of UI benefits is, one must therefore first estimate the magnitude of the relationships between UI benefits levels and unemployed workers' durations of unemployment ... -
Unequal Progress: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession 2002-03
(2003-03-01)[Excerpt] Most colleges and universities adopted budgets for the 2002-03 academic year in the spring and early summer of 2002. At that time, a pessimist might have cited several factors – negative rates of return from ... -
Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] Human Rights Watch selected case studies for this report on workers’ freedom of association in the United States with several objectives in mind. One was to include a range of sectors - services, industry, ... -
Unifying Germany: Crisis, Conflict, and Social Partnership in the East
(1997-01-01)[Excerpt] I argue that social partnership is alive and well in eastern Germany. My evidence for this surprising outcome includes the IG Metall strike victory of 1993 and plant-level case studies of restructuring and ... -
Union Attitudes Toward Management Cooperation
(1977-01-01)Much has been written in recent years about the need for unions and managements in the United States to move beyond traditional collective bargaining and begin working together cooperatively to establish creative new ... -
Union Attitudes Towards Significant Aspects of Job Training Programs for the Disadvantaged
(1972-01-01)Complementing their earlier study of employer non-participation in manpower programs for the disadvantaged, the authors now turn their attention to the union aspect of non-participation. The present survey extensively ... -
Union Leadership and Member Attitudes: A Multi-Level Analysis
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] Analyses of union leadership roles show that union presidents should have both a within-union focus and an external focus. The authors combined multi-level survey data from 3,871 union members in 248 local teachers’ ... -
Union Organizing Among Professional Women Workers
(2005-03-01)"Women in professional and technical occupations fill a unique niche in the US workforce and the US labor movement. For, while the image of an elementary or secondary school teacher is not likely one that would come to ... -
Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply?
(1990-04-01)This study investigates the validity in Japan of union participation models developed in North America. The results of ordinary least squares analysis suggest that members' participation in unions is positively related to ... -
Union Tactics Matter: The Impact of Union Tactics on Certification Elections, First Contracts and Membership Rates
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt] This study examines the impact of union tactics on certification election win rates, first contracts and post-contract membership rates in the public sector. Based on an in-depth survey of union organizers in a ... -
Union-Free Bargaining Strategies and First Contract Failures
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] The objective of this paper is to investigate what happens during first contract negotiations, especially the unproductive ones that do not result in an agreement. Complete files were reviewed of 54 first contract ... -
Union-Member Relations and Satisfaction with Unions in South Korea
(1999-01-01)This paper uses a large sample of South Korean union members working in different industries and occupations to test a model of union satisfaction. The results suggest that union-member relations- member representation and ... -
Unionization Among College Faculty - 1996
(1996-04-01)[Excerpt] Unionization among college and university faculty continued its slow but steady increase in 1995. Academic unions now represent 246,207 professors, a growth of 3,986 (1.65 percent) from that reported in last ...
