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An experimental Consumer Price Index for the poor

In an effort to better calculate the official poverty line, three established price indexes are altered to reflect consumption by poor consumers:...
Monthly Labor Review, 09/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
Employers and work/family programs

A wide-ranging study on employer-provided work/family programs by Paul Osterman in Administrative Science Quarterly (1995, vol.40). Work/family...
Monthly Labor Review, 09/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
Employees and work/family programs

A study by Steven L. Grover and Karen J. Crooker in Personnel Psychology (1995, vol. 48), concludes that even employees who do not directly benefit...
Monthly Labor Review, 09/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
Barriers to work/family programs

A 6-month field study of an engineering workplace revealed a reluctance by engineers to use benefits such as flex-place, flex-time, and job sharing...
Monthly Labor Review, 09/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
Investment in employee training

National Bureau of Economic Research paper #5231 reports that employees are most likely to receive formal training from high-tech, large companies...
Monthly Labor Review, 06/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
Shift work and job performance

Four researchers report in the 1995 Journal of Applied Psychology that existing laws and practices concerning the scheduling of overnight shift...
Monthly Labor Review, 06/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication

Production lines and innovative work practices

Researchers Casey Ichinowski and Kathryn Shaw find that despite the documented profitability of a steel plant's adoption of innovative workplace...
Monthly Labor Review, 06/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
Due-process performance appraisals

A study in the 1995 Administrative Science Quarterly, vol 40, researches the effectiveness of a 'due-process' employee evaluation method. The...
Monthly Labor Review, 03/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
On-the-job training and employee productivity

Ann P. Bartel's study in the 1995 Journal of Labor Economics, vol 13, explores the effect of training on employees. She examines workers in...
Monthly Labor Review, 03/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication
Electronic monitoring in the workplace

John R. Aiello and Kathryn J. Kolb explore the relation of electronic employee performance monitoring to job stress and employee dissatisfaction in...
Monthly Labor Review, 03/01/96 by Polly A. Phipps · More from publication