The Incidence and Effect of Job Training among Japanese Women

Using panel data of Japanese women, this paper analyzes who participates in firm‐initiated training programs and the effect of this participation on wage level and wage growth. The analysis found that workers with stronger educational backgrounds are more likely to participate in firm‐initiated training activities. Training participation and wage are positively correlated. Even after controlling for endogenous selection into training participation by a first‐difference estimation, current training participation significantly explains current wage growth.     

The 1968 Merger Guidelines: In Praise of Committing to Restraint

The 1968 Merger Guidelines of the U.S. Department of Justice remain a model for competition agencies around the world because they courageously articulated when the Department would exercise its prosecutorial discretion by not challenging a horizontal merger.     

The Horizontal Merger Guidelines of 1992

The 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission outline an enforcement policy which makes a long overdue break with its predecessors in awarding no decisive or predominant role to market concentration as a criterion of anticompetitive effect. However, the new policy does not provide an adequate substitute criterion: the tests that it prescribes for screening merger proposals are so specified that a potentially large proportion of anticompetitive mergers can escape challenge without showing any promise of improving efficiency. The time is ripe for a comprehensive inquiry aimed at formulating a more satisfactory policy.     

The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe

Using individual longitudinal European Community Household Panel data for thirteen countries during 1995–2001 and fixed‐effects models, I find for men, the permanent job wage premium is higher for younger workers and those who were noncitizens or foreign born; for women, the premium is higher for young workers, short‐tenure workers, and those who were noncitizens or foreign born. Thus, the gain to permanent employment is higher for those with less experience in the domestic labor market.     

密度变化对调速液力耦合器性能测试影响

在常规的耦合器台架测试过程中 ,油液的密度是按照定值计算的 ,油液在实际流动过程中却是变化的 ,如不考虑油液变化的因素 ,将会使耦合器的测试值不准确。本文对此进行了分析 ,并用试验的方法加以了验证。     

The Impact of Enterprise Size on Employment Tribunal Incidence and Outcomes: Evidence from Britain

Employment Tribunals are the formal means of adjudicating disputes over individual employment rights in the UK. This article hypothesizes that, because small firms favour informality over formality, they are more likely (i) to experience employee claims than large firms; (ii) to be subject to different types of claims; (iii) to settle prior to reaching a formal Tribunal; and (iv) to lose at a Tribunal. Data from the 2003 Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications are used to examine these hypotheses. They are generally supported, although in relation to the third there was no size effect. Furthermore, our results show that firms that have procedures and follow them are more likely to win than those firms that do not have any procedures. Recognizing the benefits of informality, while also ensuring that small firms follow proper standards of procedural fairness, is a policy dilemma that has yet to be resolved.     

The Role of Job Attributes in Understanding the Public-Private Wage Differential

This study uses a unique data set for Great Britain to investigate the impact of differences in job attributes on the public-private wage differential. The study reveals that (1) there are substantial differences in wage structure between the two sectors, particularly finding that the public-sector wage structure is less sensitive to differences in the attributes of jobs, and (2) differences in job attributes play in a major role in accounting for pay differences across sectors.     

浅谈岗位轮换管理模式对企业经营的影响

从培养人才、控制风险和变相淘汰3个方面阐述岗位轮换的目的和意义;对可能造成的影响进行分析,提出在状况稳定企业、中型规模以上企业及外部人才供给不足企业中实施岗位轮换制度的可行性;并针对岗位轮换的管理职能进行方案设计,从而规避风险,以实现企业与员工“双赢”的管理目标。     

泵、涡轮腔粗糙度对调速型液力偶合器承载能力的影响

调速型液力偶合器泵、涡轮内腔的形状由于比较复杂 ,通常都是铸造成型的。因此 ,腔壁比较粗糙 ,且在立壁的根部常有一些积瘤存在。这些粗糙面表面能否直接使用 ,是我们今天要解决的问题     

论会计人员定期轮岗能够完善医院会计工作的重要性

医院的财务管理是保障医院正常运行的重要条件,作为管理财务的会计人员对保证本单位提交的会计资料的真实性、合法性和完整性以及保护本单位资产的安全与完整性负有重要的责任,其在单位的作用和地位是非常重要的。会计人员在干好本职工作的同时,全面熟悉本单位经营活动和业务流程,主动提出合理化建议,及时地发现问题和处理问题,更能预测财务风险的到来。一些有能力的会计人员在某些问题上,能够协助院领导决策,积极参与管理。医院实行会计人员岗位轮换制度,既有利于会计人员熟悉不同的岗位职能,也有利于防止会计人员腐败违纪现象的发生,从制度上保证会计人员依法履行职责,使医院的会计基础工作走上规范化发展的轨迹。     

基于灰色关联分析的江苏医药产业发展因素研究

采用灰色相对关联度方法,以江苏省1999年到2007年的医药制造业当年价总产值作为系统特征序列,通过量化医药制造业企业从业人员年平均人数、医药制造业科技活动经费内部支出、医药制造业年末固定资产原价三个指标与总产值的相关情况,对比分析了劳动力投入、技术投入和资本投入对江苏医药产业的推动作用,根据实证分析结果,得出投资是江苏省医药产业增长的主要动力的结论。     

Changing Regimes of Workplace Governance,Shifting Axes of Social Mobilization,and the Challenge to Industrial Relations Theory

This article challenges prevailing views about the collapse of the New Deal industrial relations system and the role of the market. It argues that the old system has been replaced not by the market but by an employment rights regime, in which the rules of the workplace are imposed by law, judicial opinions, and administrative rulings, supplemented by mechanisms at the enterprise level that are responsive to the law but also are susceptible to employee pressures, both individual and collective. The emergence of this regime is the product of a shift in the axes of social and political mobilization from mobilization around economic identities rooted in class, industry, occupation, and enterprise to identities rooted in the society outside the workplace: sex, race, ethnicity, age, disability, and sexual orientation. The shift in the axes of mobilization in turn reflects the collapse of the underlying model of social and economic organization upon which the collective bargaining regime was built and more fundamentally a shift in our understanding of the nature of industrial society and its direction of evolution in history. This interpretation poses a challenge to the conceptual tools used in industrial relations to understand the issues of work and to frame the public policy debate. We conclude with some suggestions as to the direction in which we might move to provide an alternative conceptual framework.     

“Our Customers Are Our Enemies”: The Lysine Cartel of 1992–1995

Prosecution of the lysine cartel signaled aresurgence in global price-fixingconspiracies in dozens of markets. It was the first to enter thevideo age and set new precedents for large criminal fines. Thispaper examines the sensitivity of overcharges generated by thecartel to several factors: time period, seasonality of demand,and the price absent collusion. Civil settlements in the federalclass action (including the interrelated citric acid conspiracy)were the fourth highest in legal history. Yet, overcharges of65 to65 to 134 million mean that buyers in the federal class receivedat most single damages. The opt-out firms got double damages.     

大豆蛋白纤维进入"北京"视线大豆蛋白纤维幼稚期成长大事记

2000年8月某日，李官奇在苏州大学教授王华杰的陪同下带着他历经十年心血研制成的大豆蛋白纤维，首次走进当时的国家纺织工业局，距今，不过两年多时间，但如果让我们回眸这两年的足迹，会发现原国家纺织工业局，现中国纺织工业协会其间为大豆蛋白纤维的推广应用直接组织、协调、参加的较大规模的研讨会、培训班、新闻发布会、鉴定会等各类活动竟达十次以上。     

Technical Note: New Depreciation Rules from the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002 and their Impact on Capital Investment

United States President George W. Bush recently signed an economic stimulus bill into law entitled the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act. The law issues a number of directives aimed at increasing corporate capital expenditures in hopes of revitalizing a sagging economy. In this article, we focus on the increased amount of depreciation allowed in the first year following a qualifying capital investment. Specifically, an “additional” 30% of depreciation is allowed in the first year for ail personal property assets (20-year asset classes or less). This is clearly a significant change. Here, we derive “new” depreciation tables for personal property classes with the adjusted rule, both for MACRS and AMACRS, and illustrate the impact on capital investment decisions.