September 2007 (21)

Editor: Terence K. Huwe
Contributors: Dan Bellm, Elizabeth del Rocio Camacho, Stefanie Kalmin, Janice Kimball, Jenifer MacGillvary, Vibhuti Mehra, Dick Walker


IRLE News & Events
Hold the Date: IRLE Fall Reception, Wednesday, September 26
Funding for IRLE and its Research Partners
IRLE Fall Colloquium Series
Hilary Anger Elfenbein and Sandra S. Smith Receive Hellman Awards
IRLE launches the Center for Work and Employment Dynamics (CWED)
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society: Vol. 46, No 3 (July 2007)
Recent Sponsored Research
Recent Faculty Working Papers


IRLE Program News
The Labor Center
California Public Employee Relations
California Studies Center
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
The Labor Project for Working Families


Campus News & Events
Economics Department
Demography Department
Institute for the Study of Social Change
Sociology Department

IRLE NEWS & EVENTS

Hold the Date: IRLE Fall Reception, Wednesday, September 26

IRLE�s fall reception will be held on Wednesday, September 26, from 4:00 pm � 6:00 pm. Welcome back old friends and meet new visitors and new staff!

Location: IRLE Large Conference Room, 2521 Channing Way

RSVP: Myra Armstrong, zulu2@berkeley.edu

Funding for IRLE and its Research Partners

The new state budget includes full funding for the UC-wide Manuel Contreras Labor Program, which include the Institutes for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley and UCLA, and the UC Labor and Employment Research Fund.


IRLE Fall Colloquium Series

[Editor�s Note: The full series will be announced in the coming weeks.]

Monday, September 17, 2007, Noon, IRLE Large Conference Room, 2521 Channing Way
A light lunch will be served.
RSVP: Myra Armstrong, zulu2@berkeley.edu, 510-643-3012

Lincoln Cushing, American Labor Graphics - a progress report on Art/Works

Art/Works is the first book to focus on the role of poster art in the building of the American labor movement. Culled from repositories from all over the U.S., this Cornell University Press book, which is co-authored by Tim Drescher, brings together a wide range of subjects and images that deepen our understanding of the relationship between art, labor, and organizing.
URL: http://www.docspopuli.org/ArtWorks.html

Lincoln Cushing is the author of several books on late 20th-century political posters. He formerly worked as archivist and librarian for the IIR and the Bancroft Library.

Hilary Anger Elfenbein and Sandra S. Smith Receive Hellman Awards

IRLE faculty affiliates Hilary Anger Elfenbein (Business Administration) and Sandra S. Smith (Sociology) are recipients of The Hellman Family Faculty Fund. Elfenbein�s project is titled �On the Intuition That Some Negotiators Are Better Than Others,� and Smith�s work is titled �Exploring Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Mobilization of Social Resources for Job-Finding.�

New IRLE Program: the Center for Work and Employment Dynamics (CWED)

The CWED was established in June 2007 to provide a focus for projects on wage and employment dynamics in contemporary labor markets. The Center's chair is IRLE Director Michael Reich, and its Deputy Chairs are Sylvia Allegretto and Arindrajit Dube. CWED's Web site may be found at http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cwed/

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society: New Issue

Volume 46, No. 3 (July 2007) includes the following articles.

Social Partnership in Ireland and New Social Pacts, WILLIAM K. ROCHE

Centralized Wage Bargaining and the �Celtic Tiger� Phenomenon, LUCIO BACCARO and MARCO SIMONI

High-Commitment Work Practices and Downsizing Harshness in Australian Workplaces, RODERICK D. IVERSON and CHRISTOPHER D. ZATZICK

Labor Market Outcomes of Persons with Mental Disorders, MARJORIE L. BALDWIN, and STEVEN C. MARCUS

New Evidence on Gender Differences in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires, FRANCINE D. BLAU and JED DEVARO

Defined Contribution Plans and the Distribution of Pension Wealth, WILLIAM EVEN and DAVID MACPHERSON

Defending Dock Workers � Globalization and Labor Relations in the World�s Ports, PETER J. TURNBULL and VICTORIA J. WASS

Decentralization of Collective Agreements and Rising Wage Inequality in Israel, TALI KRISTAL and YINON COHEN

State Dependence, Accommodations and the Post-Injury Employment of Disabled Workers, MICHELE CAMPOLIETI

Finance, Corporate Governance, and the Employment Relationship, BOYD BLACK, and HOWARD GOSPEL, and ANDREW PENDLETON

Recent Sponsored Research

Carol Zabin, Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund, Job Quality Research and Education Initiative
Katie Quan, Panta Rhea Foundation, Wal-Mart in China: Is there an Opening for Labor?
Katie Quan, The California Wellness Foundation, California Lead Organizer Institute
Ken Jacobs, The California Endowment, California Health Policy Research Program
Marcy Whitebook, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Early Childhood Educator Competencies Project
Marcy Whitebook The Stone Foundation, Planning for Effective Teacher Preparation in Early Childhood Education

Recent Faculty Working Papers

The following papers were recently added to the series, and may be downloaded from the eScholarship Repository at http://repositories.cdlib.org/iir/iirwps/.

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester, and Barry Eidlin (August 6, 2007) Firm Entry and Wages: Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings Throughout the Retail Sector

Andrajit Dube, T. William Lester, and Michael Reich (August 1, 2007) Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties

Trond Petersen, Andrew Penner, and Geir Hogsnes (July 17, 2007) From Motherhood Penalties to Fatherhood Premia: The New Challenge for Family Policy

Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Reich (June 29, 2007) The Economic Impacts of a Citywide Minimum Wage

Trond Petersen, Andrew Penner, and Geir Hogsnes (June 1, 2007) The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Sorting Versus Differential Pay

Heather A. Havemen, Anand Swaminathan, and Eric B. Johnson (May 22, 2007) Structure at Work: The Division of Labor in U.S. Wineries