This paper identifies the responses of measures of health care workers' relative compensation to unexpected changes in several macroeconomic variables. The results provide time series information about the relative compensation of workers in the health care sector of the economy. The findings...

Information and communication technology(ies) (ICT) is tipped to play an increasingly enabling role in the inclusion and exclusion of groups from participation in the discourse of ‘development’, with material consequences. In affecting how ‘development’ is framed, discussed and...

This article employs threshold cointegration and error-correction models to the default risk premium. The approach allows asymmetry in the dynamic process that has not been captured in previous studies of corporate credit spreads. The results indicate that the adjustment process is asymmetric...

Examines the lack of union activity among white-collar employees in the private sector in Mexico. Background on the country's economic growth and political stability; Information on labor movement and industrial relations; Legal status of white-collar workers; Details on the existing management...

Examination of a system of compulsory arbitration that has regulated labor relations for all public school teachers in British Columbia from 1937 through 1973. Description of the environment of labor relations in the country; Discussion of labor-management negotiations in British Columbia;...

Focuses on the National Labor Relations Act and its significance to the development of multiplant units in the United States. Factors that led to the development of multiplant units; Decision made at the General Motors; Disadvantages of the act. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

This paper examines the significant stand-by arrangements between the Philippines and the International Monetary Fund from 1970 to 1983. It discusses the conditions of each agreement and its success in bringing adjustment. It attempts to show the little progress achieved through any of these...