Labor Relations Review Research Articles

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

The Economic and Labour Relations Review invites contributions for a Themed Collection - Indigeneity, Labour Relations, and Work

The Economic and Labour Relations Review invites contributions for a Themed Collection - Indigeneity, Labour Relations, and Work

“It's Self‐Determination. Blackfullas Making Right Decisions for Blackfullas”: Why Indigenous‐owned businesses create better Indigenous employment outcomes

AbstractPrevious research demonstrates that businesses that are Indigenous‐owned are far more likely to employ Indigenous people than non‐Indigenous‐owned businesses (Hunter, 2015). The majority of the literature on Indigenous employment uses a deficit discourse, describing factors that prevent or exclude Indigenous people from non‐Indigenous‐owned organisations. There is markedly less literature using a strength‐based approach, detailing how Indigenous‐owned businesses create workplaces without barriers to Indigenous employment. Through 32 semistructured interviews with Indigenous business owners, managers, and Indigenous employees of Indigenous‐owned businesses, this paper provides insights into how participants' businesses create workplaces that are more supportive of, and conducive to, Indigenous employment. This paper finds that Indigenous approaches to governance inform an organisational level of cultural competence, which creates tailored and specific practices that support better Indigenous employment outcomes. This resonates with the concept of Indigenous ways of “knowing, being, and doing,” and how this framework encompasses participants' approaches to business operations. In the light of increasing public and private policy commitments to improve Indigenous employment outcomes, it is imperative that the Indigenous business sector's best practice inform said policies, given its successes. However, inherent in these findings are broader discussions into more systemic and societal issues that go beyond workplace policy.

Call for Themed Collections for The Economic and Labour Relations Review

Call for Themed Collections for The Economic and Labour Relations Review

Introduction to the Virtual Special Issue: Strategy Science’s Contributions to Doctoral Reading Lists

Introduction to the Virtual Special Issue: <i>Strategy Science</i>’s Contributions to Doctoral Reading Lists

Edward P. Lazear Prize

Previous articleNext article FreeEdward P. Lazear PrizePDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJohn M. Abowd is the recipient of the 2022 Edward P. Lazear Prize for excellence in research, exemplary service to the field, and contributions to civil society. John Abowd is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor Emeritus of Economics, Statistics, and Data Science at Cornell University and associate director for research and methodology and chief scientist at the US Census Bureau. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST; France), the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA; Germany), and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB; Germany). He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, and, of course, the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). John received an AB in economics from Notre Dame and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He was on the faculty of the Princeton Department of Economics and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, now the Booth School of Business, before moving to Cornell in 1987.John was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lazear Prize because of his clear excellence in all three dimensions—research, service to the field, and public service. John has made deep research contributions in several areas. John’s early work included influential papers on unions, such as a study of “queuing” for union jobs (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1982), with Henry Farber, and a paper on how product market competition affects union wages (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993), with Thomas Lemieux. In joint work with David Card (Econometrica, 1989), John carefully described the structure and statistical properties of wages and hours in the United States. While this and other work would have been sufficient to cement John’s reputation as a leading labor economist, his seminal paper on worker and firm effects on wages (Econometrica, 1999), with Francis Kramarz and David Margolis, revolutionized the use of matched employer-employee data sets. It presaged how these data sets would come to be used in a large fraction of labor economics research ever since.John’s service to the field of labor economics includes consistent contributions to SOLE, where he served as president. John’s efforts at the Census Bureau, starting in 1998, have included leading efforts to create data sets (and access to those data sets), such as the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD), that have been key to innumerable research advances in labor economics research. In addition, John has produced a large set of PhD students who are carrying his work forward in labor economics research and public goods provision of useful data.Finally, John’s work at the Census Bureau has also led to important public policy advances. His work on census data sets is valuable across the social sciences. More recently, John and a few other census leaders worked tirelessly to ensure that the 2020 decennial census was a success despite the onset of a pandemic and vigorous attempts to politicize the effort.John’s contributions in all three dimensions of the Lazear Prize criteria have been substantial and will benefit labor economists, as well as broader society, for decades to come. He is an ideal choice for the inaugural Lazear Prize. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 40, Number 3July 2022 Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/721001 Views: 612Total views on this site © 2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Economic and Labour Relations Review: TOC December 2019

The Economic and Labour Relations Review: TOC December 2019

Analyses of Publications on Compensation Management From 2004 to 2017

The article conducts a publication analysis of articles on compensation management from 2004 to 2017. After reviewing 9,823 articles, 1,218 articles were identified and placed under 10 topics. Following the product life cycle model, 10 topics were fitted to different patterns. A cubic pattern is found on topics of benefits, compensating special groups, employee contributions, environmental factors, workforce diversity, international compensation and organizational justice. A quadratic pattern is observed on topics of individual factors, strategic compensation and wage administration. The product life cycle analyses reveal that publications on compensation management undergo growth, maturity or decline phases with respect to time. In addition, the publication analyses find that Compensation and Benefits Review is the most preferred outlet for publication of compensation articles. Furthermore, the most referred journals are Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Journal of Human Resources. Of 1,218 articles, 70.85% are multiauthored, 68% apply quantitative approach and 79% are from Euro-American countries.

Jacob Mincer Award

Previous articleNext article FreeJacob Mincer AwardPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreHenry Farber is the 2018 recipient of the Jacob Mincer Award for a lifetime of contributions to labor economics. Farber is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the Econometric Society, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association as well as a past president of the Society of Labor Economists.Hank’s study of labor markets and labor unions started well before his academic work in the field. He learned to drive a forklift while in his teens and for several years was a card-carrying member of the Teamsters Union. Hank earned his BA at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before moving to Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations for an MS. Hank earned his PhD in economics at Princeton University. Hank’s integration of technical economics and econometrics with the traditional study of labor markets is a hallmark of his scholarship. His own background and his education help explain the remarkable success of his research agenda, but his wide breadth of interests and his deep insights into human behavior have been critical to his success.Hank’s first major papers were studies of union bargaining behavior and strikes and the determination of wages and employment in a union setting—both published in 1978, in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy, respectively. These were papers that defined a new and more quantitative approach to the great topics that occupied labor economists in the early post–Vietnam War period. Hank’s work changed forever the way these topics would be studied by economists.Hank’s first academic position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) brought him into contact with both the old and the new in labor economics. Fruitful collaborations led to a series of influential papers that defined a rigorous paradigm for studying arbitration systems. This work has had a broad impact outside the fields of labor economics and industrial relations, and it even led to the Ghiselli Award for Research Design from the American Psychological Association.Hank continued to work on a broad range of topics in labor economics after moving to Princeton University, making many fundamental contributions. Over the longer term, his study of employer/employee matching in the labor market and the role this plays in determining how pay is determined by the length of these matches has been a major motivation for much of Hank’s research. His work on job loss, returns to seniority, job flows, and wage dynamics has been extremely influential. This work is all characterized by insightful theory, state-of-the-art econometrics, and exceptional care with data.In the past decade, Hank has been involved in a debate about worker incentives that has been played out in an unusual form: the role of worker preferences among taxi drivers. Taxi drivers are among the last of those who work as free agents who may control the length of time that they work, and they form a special case where debates about incentives have been playing out for over a decade or more. Farber has illuminated and elevated this debate to so high a level that his may well be the last word on it.Hank’s contributions to the field of labor economics go well beyond his impressive scholarship. Starting with his tenure at MIT and extending to his time at Princeton, Hank has mentored an army of scholars who have created a whole new body of scholarship. Like Jacob Mincer, for whom this award is named, Hank has also been especially important as a mentor for women in the economics profession.Hank has been very active in the Society of Labor Economists and is always willing to lend a helping hand to younger or less established scholars. He has been on the editorial board (or associate editor) of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the American Economic Review.On several occasions Hank has served as director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. He is known for his collegiality and the breadth of his friendships there.The influence of Hank’s academic accomplishments, the wide nature of his interests, the clarity of his writing, and the rigor of his work make him a natural recipient of the Jacob Mincer Award for a lifetime of contributions to labor economics.2018 Jacob Mincer Award Nominating Committee:John M. AbowdMarianne BertrandKerwin CharlesJohn HaltiwangerMarjorie McElroy (ex officio)Chris Taber (chair)Robert Willis Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 36, Number 3July 2018 Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/698833 © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Commentary: Decision Diversion in Diverse Teams: Findings from Inside a Corporate Boardroom

Academy of Management DiscoveriesVol. 3, No. 4 Commentaries on Previously Published ArticlesCommentary: Decision Diversion in Diverse Teams: Findings from Inside a Corporate BoardroomLeonard Bierman and Christopher S. TuggleLeonard BiermanTexas A&M University and Christopher S. TuggleUniversity of Nebraska LincolnPublished Online:16 Mar 2018https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2017.0064AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCESHammer T. H., Currall S. C., & Stern R. N. 1991. Worker representation on boards of directors: A study of competing roles. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 44: 661–680. Google ScholarHammer T. H., & Stern R. N. 1986. The Yo-yo model of union- management cooperation: Union participation in management at Rath Packing Company. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 39: 337–349. Google ScholarRedmond G., Mueller C., & Daniels G. A. 1983. A lost dream, worker control at Rath Packing. Labor Research Review, 6: 5–24. Google ScholarORIGINAL ARTICLE:Harvey, S., Currall, Steven C., and Hammer. T. H.. Decision Diversion in Diverse Teams: Findings from Inside A Corporate Boardroom. Academy of Management Discoveries. doi: 10.5465/amd.2015.0129 Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 3, No. 4 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 16 March 2018 Published in print 1 December 2017 Information© Academy of Management DiscoveriesDownload PDF

Corrigendum

Sale JP and Sale AB (2014) Changes in Philippine labour relations policy: Convergence or divergence of productivity, flexibility and welfare? The Economic and Labour Relations Review 25(2): 327-352. In the print version of the above article, Figure 8 was a duplicate of Figure 7. The correct version of Figure 8 is as follows: [Figure: see text]

Minimum Labour Standards and Their Enforcement: Special Symposium to Be Published in Economic and Labour Relations Review 2011

Minimum Labour Standards and Their Enforcement: Special Symposium to Be Published in <i>Economic and Labour Relations Review 2011</i>

Minimum Labour Standards and Their Enforcement: Special Symposium to Be Published in Economic and Labour Relations Review 2011

Minimum Labour Standards and Their Enforcement: Special Symposium to Be Published in <i>Economic and Labour Relations Review 2011</i>

The Rise and, Hopefully, the Fall of Economic Neo-Liberalism in Theory and Practice

I count it a great privilege to contribute the opening essay to this issue of The Economic and Labour Relations Review, which is celebrating its first 20 years. Over that time, the journal has been an outlet for independent and outspoken, often unfashionable views, upholding traditions steeped in the thoughts of Michal Kalecki and Maynard Keynes, and some of Australia’s wisest economists. (Even Karl Marx gets a mention.) I am most grateful to the editors for asking me to be their opening bat.

A Chinese State Enterprise under the Reforms: What Model of Capitalism?

Previous articleNext article No AccessA Chinese State Enterprise under the Reforms: What Model of Capitalism?Anita Chan and Jonathan UngerAnita Chan Search for more articles by this author and Jonathan Unger Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 62Jul., 2009 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/tcj.62.20648112 Views: 73Total views on this site Citations: 18Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright The China JournalPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Jingqi Zhu, Rick Delbridge The management of second-generation migrant workers in China: A case study of centrifugal paternalism, Human Relations 75, no.1212 (Jul 2021): 2272–2299.https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267211032948Wei Huang What sort of workplace democracy can democratic management achieve in China?, Industrial Relations Journal 53, no.66 (Nov 2022): 578–601.https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12387Feng Xu Building China’s Eldercare Market: The Imperatives of Capital Accumulation and Social Stability, Social Sciences 11, no.55 (May 2022): 212.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050212Hao Zhang, Eli Friedman Informality and Working Conditions in China's Sanitation Sector, The China Quarterly 238 (Dec 2018): 375–395.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741018001388Konstantinos Tsimonis (De)mobilising and (mis)representing ‘youth’ in the Chinese workplace: political dependency, generational subordination and corporatisation in the Communist Youth League, Journal of Youth Studies 20, no.1010 (May 2017): 1362–1379.https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2017.1333584Tom Barnes Industry policy in Asia’s demographic giants: China, India and Indonesia compared, The Economic and Labour Relations Review 28, no.22 (Jan 2023): 218–233.https://doi.org/10.1177/1035304616656562Susanne YP Choi, Yinni Peng Humanized management? Capital and migrant labour in a time of labour shortage in South China, Human Relations 68, no.22 (Feb 2015): 287–304.https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726714541162Tom Cliff Post-Socialist Aspirations in a Neo-Danwei, The China Journal 73 (Jun 2015): 132–157.https://doi.org/10.1086/679272Ju Li From “Master” to “Loser”: Changing Working-Class Cultural Identity in Contemporary China, International Labor and Working-Class History 88 (Sep 2015): 190–208.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547915000277Anita Chan, Yiu Por Chen, Yuhua Xie, Zhao Wei, Cathy Walker Disposable Bodies and Labor Rights: Workers in China's Automotive Industry, WorkingUSA 17, no.44 (Dec 2014): 509–529.https://doi.org/10.1111/wusa.12136Vincent Chua Institutional Comparisons of the Perceived Value of Networks in China and the United States, Comparative Sociology 13, no.55 (Nov 2014): 587–617.https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341326Jessie P.H. Poon, Qingyang Shang Are creative workers happier in Chinese cities? The influence of work, lifestyle, and amenities on urban well-being, Urban Geography 35, no.44 (Apr 2014): 567–585.https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.904977Eli Friedman Insurgency and institutionalization: the Polanyian countermovement and Chinese labor politics, Theory and Society 42, no.33 (Mar 2013): 295–327.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-013-9192-1Penelope B. Prime, Li Qi Determinants of Firm Leverage, The Chinese Economy 46, no.22 (Dec 2014): 74–106.https://doi.org/10.2753/CES1097-1475460204Katherine A. Mason To Your Health! Toasting, Intoxication and Gendered Critique among Banqueting Women, The China Journal 69 (Jul 2015): 108–133.https://doi.org/10.1086/668804Philip C.C. Huang Profit-Making State Firms and China’s Development Experience, Modern China 38, no.66 (Nov 2012): 591–629.https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700412455839Philip C. C. Huang Chongqing, Modern China 37, no.66 (Nov 2011): 569–622.https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700411419966Muriel Périsse Chine : une transition salariale à hauts risques, Revue de la régulation , no.66 (Oct 2009).https://doi.org/10.4000/regulation.7675

Identifying the “Invisible Colleges” of the Industrial &amp; Labor Relations Review: A Bibliometric Approach

Since its inaugural issue in 1947, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILRR) has been considered among the foremost industrial relations journals. Prominent among subjects treated by ILRRs articles in the journal's early years were collective bargaining and industrial strife, but the subject mix has changed greatly with the times. This paper employs bibliometric techniques to compare ILRR's intellectual bases across three recent periods: 1974–1984, 1985–1995, and 1996–2006. Using co-citation and network analyses, the authors identify the “invisible colleges”—research networks that refer to each other in their publications—of ILRR Economics-oriented journals were heavily cited by ILRR authors across the entire 33-year observation period, but there is evidence that another field, human resource management, was of growing importance in the most recent years.

Introduction to the Symposium on Contemporary Social Issues

This Symposium contains a selection of the papers that were presented to the Australian Social Policy Conference held at the University of New South Wales in July 2005. In choosing which of the many papers to include, we took account of both the quality of the contributions and their relevance and likely interest to readers of The Economic and Labour Relations Review. The 2005 ASPC was a particularly auspicious occasion for its organiser, the Social Policy Research Centre, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary. Partly in recognition of this fact, the overall theme for the conference 'Looking Back, Looking Forward', a topic that provided an opportunity to reflect on the legacy of past economic and social policies, on recent and current achievements, and on future challenges. The end of the long economic boom in the mid 1970s led to the realisation that new social policies were needed to cope with the challenges presented by the emerging economic and social environment. Now, more than three decades after the first oil shock signalled the collapse of the post-war Keynesian consensus, economic growth has returned, but inequality is growing and social change continues to be rapid. After more than a decade of strong economic growth, most Australians have experienced rising material prosperity yet persisting social concerns continue to attract attention, and many feel that the quality of their life has not improved to anything like the same degree as their real income. Those who have missed out the benefits of this long economic boom have fallen further behind, making it harder to adjust to and overcome, the many factors that have contributed to their disadvantage. With government increasingly focused on deregulating the economy and keeping a tight rein on spending programs, the state's role in improving social conditions and creating equitable outcomes is in retreat. In its place, increasingly unregulated market forces are generating large financial benefits for those able to compete, with inadequate account taken of the adverse consequences for those deemed 'surplus to market requirements'. The labour market has assumed growing importance as an arena where market forces play out in ways that shape people's economic and social futures. Those in demand have flourished, while others have been cast aside, as unemployed, under-employed or employed in casual and insecure jobs. People's ability to compete in the modern labour market has thus become an increasingly important determinant of their own economic success, but also of the future prospects of their families and their children. These pressures look set to intensify under the new industrial relations reforms that did not even feature on the policy agenda when the ASPC was held, and few participants could have predicted the changes that have occurred with such rapidity since that time. Even so, the central importance of the labour market is clear from the papers that follow, most of which see it as a major determinant of people's wellbeing in the broad (economic and social) sense. In her Invited Plenary Address, Holly Sutherland reviews the Blair Government's policy approach to ending child poverty (a policy goal that will be familiar to an Australian audience), analyses the impact of recent policy changes and examines what more needs to be done to achieve the stated goal of ending child poverty within a generation (i.e. by 2020). She begins by drawing on a range of national and international evidence to show where the UK began its effort, identifying some of the factors that will contribute to and detract from its achievement of the overall goal and the interim targets set along the way. She uses a range of policy analyses, including micro-simulation techniques, to estimate what more is going to be needed to achieve the targets, in the process highlighting the magnitude of the task. In a conclusion that sits in stark contrast to the Howard Government's rejection of poverty targets (or even of the usefulness of the notion itself) she concludes that 'targets provide an important focus and involve the government in holding itself to account, and in providing information such that progress can be assessed'. …

Rate of Return on Education and Sample Selection Bias

The Mincerian method is extensively used to estimate rates of return on education investment, using survey data of household earnings and OLS. However, the estimated coefficients suffer from sample selection bias [Heckman, Econometrica, 1979]. The question is: Is there any difference in assessing returns on investment in education by paying attention to the sample selection bias or by ignoring it? See, for example, Psacharopoulos and Patrinos [Education Economics, 2004], Glewwe [JEL, 2002], Chase [Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1998] and Lassibille [Economics of Education Review, 1998]. In this study, we use Household Expenditure Income Survey of Turkey (26,734 males and 7218 females) to assess sample selection bias in the estimates of investment return on education. Our data carry some bias because we only observe data on market wages when an individual chooses to enter the workforce. Dividing the workforce into wage earners and nonworkers is certainly not random; as a result the selected sample is biased. We compare two sets of estimated rates of return to education in Turkey from the Mincerian augmented earnings function for each gender: one with Fsample selection correction_ using Heckman’s two-step method and one Fwithout correction._ The independent variables are various levels of education, ranging from no education to college graduates, experience, its square, and other variables. The estimated coefficients of education in all four models are statistically significant at 1 percent. The coefficient of the inverse Mills ratio in the corrected models is also statistically significant at 1 percent, lending support for the sample selection bias. However, the differences between the estimates of the coefficients with and without corrections are not dramatic. For females, the coefficients for the seven levels of education without correction are: j0.065, 0.360, 0.682, 0.879, 1.27, 1.35, and 1.62, and with correction: j0.061, 0.404, 0.694, 0.844, 1.12, 1.38, and 1.72 respectively. For males, the coefficients for the seven education levels without correction are: 0.25, 0.314, 0.531, 0.541, 0.888, 1.06, and 1.29, and with correction: 0.28, 0.347, 0.516, 0.0.537, 0.872, 1.08, and 1.25, respectively. These coefficients for Turkey are in line with the results reported for other similar countries. The females’ rates of returns are consistently higher than those of men. The extent of the selection bias for females (4.23 percent) is higher than that of males (3.26 percent). The direction of the bias varies for some levels of education. Having a significant inverse Mills ratio with small biases may seem a paradoxical result that can be explained as follows. (1.) Since the inverse Mills ratio in an OLS relation is omitted, then the schooling coefficient bias depends on (a) the omitted variable being an important determinant of Atlantic Economic Journal (2005)33:359–360 * IAES 2005 DOI: 10.1007/s11293-005-8190-8