How new is the "new employment contract"? : evidence from North American pay practices / David I. Levine [and others].

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002.
Description
xiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    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.
    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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