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Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States
Alpert, William T. (contributor);  … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
employee benefits (or lack thereof) have on labor markets. And while there are, as the editors point out, substantial … differences between the employee benefits systems of Canada and the U.S., these differences showcase the impacts of specific … policies related to employee benefits on labor markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472687
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Employment Relations and Wages: What Can We Learn from Subjective Assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers’ subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662741
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Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Labor Market Spillover Effects of Welfare Reform
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002
By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … reduces wages of single mothers and male high school dropouts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116763
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Banking the Furnace: Restructuring of the Steel Industry in Eight Countries
Bain, Trevor - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Trevor Bain explores the industry restructurings that occurred in eight major steel-producing countries, including the U.S., Germany and Japan. He begins by categorizing each country as having either an adversarial or a cooperative industrial relations system, and then analyzes the differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008488912
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Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations
Sleigh, Stephen R. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book's essays analyze innovative responses by unions, corporations and governments to job loss caused by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008488913
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Labor Law, Industrial Relations, and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990s
Block, Richard N.; Beck, John; Kruger, Daniel H. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Block, Beck and Kruger present detailed examples from the testimony given during the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations (commonly called the Dunlop Commission) national and regional hearings. The Commission, by hearing from a wide range of stakeholders, sought to define the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502811
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Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations
cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel E.; McKersie, Robert B.; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
The authors identify and analyze the strategies for change and techniques most often used in today's labor negotiations. Nearly gone, they say, is the traditional "arms length" approach used by negotiators in the past. Instead, modern collective bargaining is characterized mainly by divergent...
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Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States
Block, Richard N. (contributor);  … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This volume examines the state of workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. The contributors present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472698
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Labor Unions and the Economic Performance of Unions
Hirsch, Barry T. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Hirsch develops a model of union rent-seeking in which the unions capture a share of quasi-rents that make up the … and intangible capital. Hirsch also attempts to explain the connection between the contraction of the size of unions which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478802
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Labor-Management Cooperation: New Partnerships or Going in Circles?
Cooke, William N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Cooke answers important questions about labor-management cooperative efforts and addresses the problems undermining these efforts. His analyses are based on a variety of secondary data sources plus primary data from three nationwide surveys of plant managers, union leaders, and industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478807