Deals with a study that explored whether the wage bargaining efforts of unions of production workers influence the salary levels of nonproduction workers. Model to identify the earnings levels of production and nonproduction workers; Results and discussion; Conclusion. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Unionism among management personnel, like certain farm commodity prices, tends to reach but not to exceed the level supported by the government. In the several years before 1947 trade union efforts by foremen attracted widespread attention. With the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act and its...

Reply to Rothbaum and Ross, in "Two Views on Wage Differences," in this issue.

The failure of labor markets to produce determinate rates for each occupation as postulated by traditional theory may be explained, according to this article, in large part by the nature of the hiring process. Diversity of wages among semiskilled workers, who usually are hired on a...

Re-examines the structural unemployment in the United States. Criticisms of the structural hypothesis; Views of R.A. Gordon, an economist, on structural unemployment; Criteria for judging whether for a particular group structural unemployment has increased; Areas of increased structural...

Appraises the effect of size of enterprise on wage differentials in Japanese manufacturing. Application of the multivariate technique; Results of multivariate analysis; Causes of wage differentials. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)