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Keeping Our Best: Econometric Analysis of Retention and Performance at Engineering Solutions
(2002-07-01)This study analyzes the retention and performance of 100 engineers who started work at “Engineering Solutions” in 1996, of whom 65 were still with the firm in 2002. The retention analysis shows that the firm retained ... -
Key Issues Currently Facing American Higher Education
(2004-07-25)In this paper, presented at the NACUBO annual meetings in Milwaukee in 2004, the author traces the fundamental problems facing the country’s colleges and universities, in particular the reasons for the rapid rise in tuition ... -
Key Issues Facing Trustees of National Research Universities in the Decade Ahead
(2005-12-13)[Excerpt] Trustees of public and private research universities have a fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interest of their institutions. However, actions that appear to be in the private interests of their ... -
Knowledge Exchange and Combination: The Role of Human Resource Practices in the Performance of High-Technology Firms
(Academy of Management, 2006-06)In this study, we developed and tested a theory of how human resource practices affect the organizational social climate conditions that facilitate knowledge exchange and combination and resultant firm performance. A field ... -
Knowledge Gathering, Team Capabilities, and Project Performance in Challenging Work Environments
(2006-08-01)Knowledge gathering can create problems as well as benefits for project teams in work environments characterized by overload, ambiguity, and politics. This paper proposes that the value of knowledge gathering in such ... -
La Confrontacion del Chicano con el Inmigrante Mexicano
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] El gobernador de California, Jerry Brown, ha senalado que Estados Unidos esta. entrando en una nueva etapa en su evolucion historica. Se refiere a ella como una "era de limites". Las sendas del pasado no pueden ... -
La educación secundaria en los Estados Unidos. ¿Qué pueden aprender otros de nuestros errores?
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] El ritmo de los estudiantes estadounidenses para adquirir nuevas habilidades se desacelera durante la educación secundaria. -
Labor and Global Justice: Emerging Reform Coalitions in the World's Only Superpower
(2004-01-01)This paper examines rejuvenated labor, environmental and campus movements in the U.S., in case studies of living wage, anti-sweatshop, sustainable development and Justice for Janitors campaigns. The cases offer surprising ... -
Labor and Regional Development in the U.S.A.: Building a High Road Infrastructure in Buffalo, New York
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] In a country where worker representatives lack broadly institutionalized roles as "social partners," how can they play a constructive role in solving the problems of regional development? In Buffalo, New York, ... -
Labor and the Democrats: It’s Time for a Break
(1985-02-25)[Excerpt] Instead of tightening them, the labor movement should be re-examining its links to the Democrats. Party officials are not bashful about it. "We have to quit running on labor's agenda," says one state chairman. ... -
Labor and Urban Crisis in Buffalo, New York: Building a High Road Infrastructure
(2005-03-30)With inequality growing and competitive market forces on the march, can unions play a constructive role in solving the problems of capitalist economic development? Should they try? In this study of coalition building in ... -
Labor Costs and the Social Dumping Debate in the European Union
(1994-10-01)This study examines the labor cost incentive for capital movement in manufacturing within the European Union, a key aspect of the "social dumping" debate in Western Europe. The authors find that the percentage differences ... -
Labor Economics
(1998-01-01)The authors hypothesize that most labor economists "sooner or later had to incorporate at least the appearance of institutional concerns in their papers to avoid indigestion whenever lunching with colleagues outside the ... -
Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds is an energizing, optimistic book. By using the contemporary metropolis as a comparative laboratory to see what contexts and strategies contribute best to labor revitalization, ... -
Labor Law and the Legal Way: Collective Bargaining in the Chilean Textile Industry under the Unidad Popular
(1973-05-01)[Excerpt] This study describes the legal creation of an industry-wide, tripartite collective bargaining structure in the private sector of the Chilean textile industry. The former structure limited collective bargaining ... -
Labor Market
(2007-08-01)[Excerpt] According to textbooks such as Ronald Ehrenberg and Robert Smith’s "Modern Labor Economics" (2005), a "labor market" is the place where labor services are bought and sold. The term "labor" is equated to the term ... -
Labor Market Analysis Using SIPP
(1985-01-01)This paper examines the potentiality of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for labor market analysis. We consider five areas of analysis: (1) labor force participation, employment, and unemployment; (2) ... -
Labor Market Data Needs Relating to Antidiscrimination Activity: Comment
(1980-01-01)[Excerpt] Barbara Bergmann's background paper divides data needs in the antidiscrimination area into data that would be useful in the formulation of national policy and data that would be useful as an aid in enforcing the ... -
Labor Market Institutions and Restructuring in U.S. Deregulated Telecommunications Services
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter summarizes some of the recent literature concerning the changing nature of markets, technology, and employment relations in deregulated telecommunications services in the United States. It draws on ... -
Labor Market Outcomes of Deregulation in Telecommunications Services
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] This paper examines the labor market outcomes of deregulation in the telecommunications industry, focusing specifically on changes in union density, real wages, wage inequality, and employment levels. Deregulation ...
