LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ASSOCIATION SERIES    
      Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting    

   

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I.
 
Marlene K. Heyser, Presiding
   
II.
 
RETURNING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES TO THE WORKFORCE
 
Douglas Kruse, Presiding
 

Early-Early Intervention in Rhode Island: Helping Workers Compensation Recipients Return to Work

 
Scott Szymendera     7
   
 
III.
 
LERA REFEREED PAPERS: LABOR MARKET ECONOMICS, HUMAN
RESOURCES, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
 
Dale Belman, Presiding
  Occupational Pension Plans, Group Registered Retirement Savings Plans, and Employee Quit Transitions
 
Tony Fang     14
  Unemployment Insurance Receipt and Unemployment Durations of Immigrants
 
Wei Chi and Brian P. McCall     35
  Declining Access to Retiree Health Insurance Keeps Older Workers in the Labor Force
 
Christian Weller and Jeffrey Wenger     51
  Deferred Compensation and Organizational Productivity
 
Tony Fang and Andrew A. Luchack     67
   
 
IV.
 
THE CLEARING OF THE PERFECT STORM:
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION PLANS?
 
Diana Murray, Presiding
  Weathering the Perfect Storm: Defined-Benefit Pension Plans in the Airline Industry
 
Beth Almeida     86
  Smoothing the Waves of the Perfect Storm: Changes in Pension Funding Rules Could Reduce Cyclical Underfunding
 
Christian Weller and Dean Baker     94
  Discussion
 
David Blitzstein     102
   
 
V.
 
VOLUNTARY RECOGNITION: AN INNOVATION
IN LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION?
 
Wilma Liebman, Presiding
  Contractual Approaches to Labor Organizing: Supplanting the Election Paradigm?
 
James J. Brudney     106
  Discussion
 
Wilma B. Liebman     114
  Discussion
 
Charles Cohen     117
  Discussion
 
Andrew S. Levin     119
   
 
VI.
 

THE IMPACTS OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ON WORKPLACE OUTCOMES

 
Ronald Seeber, Presiding
 

Inequalities in Access to Justice in the Workplace

 
Alexander J. S. Colvin     122
 

Discussion

 
Lisa Blomgren Bingham     131
  Discussion
 
David B. Lipsky     134
   
 
VII.
 

EMPLOYEE VOICE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLD:
CONTOURS & CONSEQUENCES

 
Paula B. Voos, Presiding
 

Employee Voice in the Anglo-American World: An Overview of Five National Surveys

 
Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes     139
  Employee Voice in the Anglo-American World: Some Implications for Unions
 
David Peetz and Ann Frost     151
  Discussion
 
Thomas A. Kochan     159
   
 
VIII.
 
REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE:
NAFTA, MERCOSUL AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
 
David Bensman, Presiding
  Crafting a Social Dimension in a Hemispheric Trade Agreement
 
Lance Compa     167
  Mercosul and South American Responses to Regional Integration
 
Maria Silvia Portella de Castro     174
  Discussion
 
  Owen E. Herrnstadt     181
  Discussion
 
Russell E. Smith     184
   
 
IX.
 

THE GROWTH OF UNREGULATED WORK IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES

 
Katherine McFate, Presiding
  Unregulated Work and New Business Strategies in American Cities
 
Annette Bernhardt, James DeFilipis, Nina Martin, and Siobhán McGrath     188
   
 
X.
 

THE NEXT WAVE: CITYWIDE MINIMUM WAGE
LAWS AND EXPANDED LIVING WAGE ORDINANCES
IN PRACTICE AND RESEARCH

 
Jen Kern, Presiding
 

Wage and Employment Impacts of a Citywide Minimum Wage

 
Arindrajit Dube and Michael Reich     197
  Citywide Minimum Wage Laws: A New Policy Tool for Local Governments
 
Paul K. Sonn     205
   
 
XI.
 
LERA REFEREED PAPERS:
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW, LABOR UNIONS/LABOR
STUDIES, INTERNATIONAL/COMPARATIVE & NAFTA
 
Tia Schneider Deneberg, Presiding
 

Trade Union Recognition in Britain: Is a Corner Being Turned?

 
Gregor Gall     216
   
 
XII.
 
LERA POSTER SESSION
 
Robert Hoell, Presiding
 

Asian Employment Relations: The Forgotten Case of Pakistan

 
Mohammad A. Ali     230
  The Utilization of Contingent Workers in Order to Control Costs and Firm Financial Performance
 
Paula Alexander Becker     230
  How Peripheral Are Peripheral Workers?
 
Matthew Bidwell     231
  Determinants of Employee Layoffs in High-Technology Firms
 
Minston Chao, Chih-Ting Shih, Shyh-jer Chen, and Jyh-jer Ko     232
  Class War in Paradise: A Participant-Observer Perspective
 
Jack Fiorito     232
  Mandatory or Not Mandatory—That is the Question: A Comparison of Overtime in the U.S. Labor Market
 
Lonnie Golden and Barbara Wiens-Tuers     233
  Factors Associated with Employee Dismissal: Some Canadian Experience
 
James D. Grant and Terry H. Wagar     233
  The Impact of Federal and State Occupational Safety and Health Regulations on Workplace Injuries, Illnesses
 
Stephen J. Havlovic, William Moore, and David McLain     234
  Explaining the Association Between Gender Density of Occupations and Compensation
 
Timothy J. Keaveny and Edward J. Inderrieden     234
  Effects of High-Performance Work System on Workplace Safety: Evidence from Korea
 
Yong-Seung Park     235
  Participation in Union Locals
 
Julie Sadler     236
  Support for Labor-Management Cooperation: Results from a Survey of Local Union Officials
 
Terry H. Wagar and James D. Grant     236
   
 
XIII.
 
2004 LERA BEST DISSERTATION COMPETITION
 
 

Three Essays on Labor Policy

 
Christopher Riddell, Co-winner     238
  Essays on External Conditions and Wage Setting Within Firms
 
Eric Verhoogen, Co-winner     248
   
 
XIV.
 
2004 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
 

Comments on Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award

 
Walter J. Gershenfeld, Awardee     256
   
 
XV.
 
LERA DISTINGUISHED PANEL
 

Due Process in Employment Arbitration: Differential Coverage is Not Due Process

 
Walter J. Gershenfeld     259
 

 

 
XVI.
 
LERA ANNUAL REPORTS
 
 
270
 

Executive Board Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, January 6, 2005

 
275
  General Membership Meeting in Philadelphia, January 8, 2005
 
283
 
 
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