New employment relationships and the labor market

Journal of Labor Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 551-559

  Kosters, Marvin H ^a  

^a AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 0039861841     PISSN: 01953613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12122-997-1022-7     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. The view that new jobs have deteriorated is in large part based on a misleading interpretation of the decline in relative wages of less-skilled workers. For a careful analysis of this trend, see Kevin M. Murphy and Finis Welch, "Industrial Change and the Rising Importance of Skill," in S. Danzinger and P. Gottschalk, eds., Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in the 1980s, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992, pp. 101-32.
2. See Harriet B. Presser, "Job, Family, and Gender: Determinants of Nonstandard Work Schedules Among Employed Americans in 1991," Demography 32 (November 1995), pp. 577-98, and American Demographics, August 1996, pp. 20-22.
3. See Harriet B. Presser, "Job, Family, and Gender: Determinants of Nonstandard Work Schedules Among Employed Americans in 1991," Demography 32 (November 1995), pp. 577-98, and American Demographics, August 1996, pp. 20-22.
4. Sue Shellenbarger, "Work and Family," Wall Street Journal, August 21, 1996.
5. For a discussion of job security, see commentaries in reaction to a series of articles on downsizing in the New York Times in March 1996 collected in The American Enterprise, July/August 1996, pp. 20-22.
6. The term was apparently introduced by Audrey Freedman, and publication of The Contingent Economy: The Growth of the Temporary, Part-Time, and Subcontracted Workforce by Richard Belous (Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association, 1989), helped to popularize an alarmist view about the presumed harmful effects on job quality of the growth of alternative employment arrangements in the United States.
7. "Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements," Report 900, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 1995.
8. The term is used in "Restructuring the Employment Relationship: The Growth of Market-Mediated Work Arrangements," by Katherine G. Abraham, in New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm, Katherine G. Abraham and Robert B. McKersie, eds., Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990, pp. 85-119.
9. Report and Recommendations, Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations, December 1994, popularly known as the Dunlop Commission Report after its chairman, former Secretary of Labor, John T. Dunlop, p. 35.
10. A very useful discussion of reasons why firms use contract workers and evidence about their use is contained in "Firms' Use of Outside Contractors: Theory and Evidence," by Katherine G. Abraham and Susan K. Taylor, September 1993, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 4468.
11. IbId.
12. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements," Report 900, August 1995.
13. Lewis M. Segal and Daniel G. Sullivan, "The Temporary Labor Force," Economic Perspectives, March/April 1995, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, pp. 2-19.
14. This episode is discussed in Steven Pearlstein, "The Temp Firm's Tempest," Washington Post, October 18, 1996. This is an interesting example of a fallacious claim that has been repeated so often in other publications like Fortune and The Economist that its credibility is seldom questioned and further repetition seems to be self-reinforcing. Ida L. Walters in "Temping Fate," Reason, April 1994, pp. 48-51, traces the statement to a March 29, 1993 story in Time.
15. This episode is discussed in Steven Pearlstein, "The Temp Firm's Tempest," Washington Post, October 18, 1996. This is an interesting example of a fallacious claim that has been repeated so often in other publications like Fortune and The Economist that its credibility is seldom questioned and further repetition seems to be self-reinforcing. Ida L. Walters in "Temping Fate," Reason, April 1994, pp. 48-51, traces the statement to a March 29, 1993 story in Time.