Scholars, employers, and certainly many employees share a perception that how work is organized has radically changed.

The author illustrates the utility of institutional labor economics and makes a case for a reconsideration of it. Two recent developments motivate this effort: the rise of New Personnel Economics (NPE) as a significant subfield of labor economics and the substantial shifts in work organization...

This paper investigates how the increased use of computers affects clerical and managerial employment. The author hypothesizes that the much-discussed displacement effect-computers taking over for clerks-is offset at least in part by complementary effects. For example, computers may increase...

The author, using data on 694 U.S. manufacturing establishments from a 1992 survey, examines the incidence of innovative work practices (teams, job rotation, quality circles, and Total Quality Management) and investigates what variables, including human resource practices, are associated with...

Analyzes sex discrimination in professional employment in a metropolitan publishing firm. How sex differentials in earnings are generated within a single company; The company's internal labor market; Impact of marriage and children on the results and interpretation of the data; Differences in...

An unresolved question about now-widespread innovative work systems such as teams and quality programs is whether they influence wage determination. This study examines that possible association in manufacturing. The author uses data from the 1997 National Establishment Survey that allow...

High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) took root in the early 1990s but then faced an environment of organizational turmoil and restructuring. This paper, drawing on a second-round survey of employers that replicated and extended a 1992 survey, addresses two questions: whether HPWO...

Results of an empirical test of some ideas about the segmentation of the labor force. Classification of the different jobs within the primary sector; Social status of occupations; Empirical analysis; Empirical results. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Unionism and collective bargaining among U.S. state and local government employees are being widely debated, and some of these governments have sharply reduced or eliminated public employee unionism and bargaining rights. Such actions are based on a belief that fiscal adversity facing state and...

Presents a quantification of both the wage and nonwage terms of union agreements designed to permit rigorous analysis of the determinants of collective bargaining outcomes. Cross-sectional analysis of the outcomes of bargaining between a sample of city governments and locals of the International...