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How new is the "new employment contract"? : evidence from North American pay practices / David I. Levine [and others].
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English
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Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002.
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xiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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HD4975 .H64 2002
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Wages
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United States
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Wages
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Canada
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Compensation management
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Compensation management
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Labor contract
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Labor contract
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Labor market
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Labor market
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Comparative industrial relations
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W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Levine, David I., 1960-
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Summary note
Topics covered include theories and changes of labour markets, wage structures, job characteristics, skills and wages, pay flexibility.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and indexes.
Contents
The Old Employment Contract 2
The New Employment Contract 3
The Data 4
Overview of Results 6
2 Theories of Internal Labor Markets 9
What is an Internal Labor Market? 10
Institutionalist Approaches to Understanding Internal Labor Markets 13
Institutionalist Hypotheses of Changing Internal Labor Markets 15
Economic Theories of Internal Labor Markets 25
Why Study Internal Labor Markets and their Evolution? 41
3 Changes in Internal Labor Markets 45
Career Length: Tenure and Displacement 46
Employee Attitudes 48
Relation of Internal and External Markets 50
Pay Practices 51
Employee Benefits as Risk-Sharing Mechanisms 56
Work Organization 57
Sectoral shifts 59
4 Wage Structures at Large and Small Employers 63
Methods: Decomposing Changes in the Size-Wage Gap 63
Results 67
Background: Has the Employer Size Declined for the Typical Employee? 67
Are Wage Structures at Large and Nearby Small Employers Converging? 78
5 Changes in Wage Structures within and between Employers 85
The Data 85
Methods 87
Results 94
Trends in Total Variation 94
Persistence of Wage Components 103
6 Job Characteristics, Skills, and Wages 111
The Data 111
Results with the 1986 Hay Data 112
Results with the Indiana/Japan Data 118
Results over Time in the Hay Data 126
7 Changes in Attitudes toward Pay Flexibility 129
The Data 129
Hypotheses 130
When are Layoffs Acceptable? 138
Justice Theory Hypotheses 140
Results 145
Predictions and Study Results 153
Have Institutions and Wage Structures Weakened? 156
Study Results in Terms of Theory 161
Implications of this Research 167
Limitations and Future Research 176
Appendix A An Illustrative Model of Human Capital Theory 179
Appendix B The Current Population Survey 183
Appendix C The Cleveland Community Salary Survey 199
Appendix D How Representative is the Community Salary Survey 205
Appendix E Did Deregulation or Growing Imports Weaken Wage Structures? 211
Appendix F The Hay Data 215
Appendix G The Indiana/Japan Data 225
Appendix H The Survey Questions Concerning Layoffs 227
Appendix I Complete Results of Layoff Questions 231
5.1 Standard Deviation of CSS Wage Components over Time 95
5.2 Changing Returns on Skill 98
5.3 Covariance of Employer and Occupational Effects over Time 100
5.4 Occupation, Employer and Internal Structure Wage Differentials Autocorrelations by Length of Time between Observations 104
5.5 Occupation Autocorrelations over Time 106
5.6 Employer Autocorrelations over Time 106
5.7 Internal Structure Autocorrelations over Time 107
6.1 Decomposing Inequality 116
6.2 Standard Deviation of Establishment Effects with and without Job Characteristics 127
6.3 Changes in Inequity (Hay data, 1986-92) 127
8.1 The Size-Wage Gap 157.
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ISBN
088099231X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780880992312 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0880992328 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780880992329 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0585470286
9780585470283
LCCN
2002025887
OCLC
49421793
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