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Discusses the two distinct phases of labor productivity in the paper and plastic bag industry in the U.S. Employment pattern by phases; Increase in the real value of consumer expenditure for soft goods; Technological advances in all parts of the bag-making process; Effect of product changes on production speeds.

Examines the wages of workers in the United States paper industries. Comparison of the paper industry wages with other manufacturing industries; Wage structures and manufacturing activities in the paper industry.

Examines trends and developments in industrial relations in the U.S. Aerospace update; Meatpacking developments; Grocery agreements; Utility accords; Pulp and paper contracts.

The article deals with three agreements signed by the United Wall Paper Crafts of North America in New York City. This association was established by a consolidation of two smaller national unions which are the National Association of Machine Printers and Color Mixers of the U.S. and the National Print Cutters' Association of America. The first contract deals with printers and color mixers and covers 300 mechanics in 19 industrial areas. The second deals with 125 printer cutters in a single factory. Lastly, the third contract covers 150 print cutters employed in the shops of print-cutting entrepreneurs.

Examines pulp, paper and paperboard mill wages in the United States. Straight-time hourly earnings of production and related workers in the sector; Job averages and benefits.

Reports on the contract agreement between paperworkers trade-unions and the International Paper Co. in Camden, Arkansas. Provisions of the contract; United Paperworks union's campaign to pressure International Paper to end the company's drive to cut labor costs.

Cites research findings on wages in the papermaking industries of the U.S. Correlation between wage levels and the type of pulp-making process and grade of paper or paperboard produced; Impact of unionization and plant location on wage rates; Policy implications on industrial relations.

Presents several excerpts from papers related to industrial relations presented at the Industrial Relations Research Association conference held on December 1668 in Chicago, Illinois.

Reports that employees of paper companies in the West Coast United States agreed to a 32-month contract containing terms the companies had unilaterally put into effect a month earlier. Terms of the contract.

Discusses the contents of papers presented at the meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association held in Washington D.C. Theme of the conference; Topics discussed; Highlights of the event.

Presents excerpts of papers pertaining to industrial relations in the U.S., presented to the '22nd Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,' in New York City. Student-university relations; Union prospects and programs for the 1970s; Union bargaining goals in the 1970s; Issues regarding higher education subsidies. INSET: Comment on "Union prospects and programs".

Presents excerpts of papers presented to the IRRA during its winter 1966 meetings in San Francisco, California. Processing employment discrimination cases; Effect of economic change on the Michigan labor force; Technological displacement as a micro phenomenon.

Provides data on wages in the paperboard container and box plants sectors in the United States in November 1964. Regional average earnings for all production workers; Establishment practices.

Reports on the formation of the United Paperworkers International Union following the merger of the United Papermakers and Paperworkers Union and the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers.

Presents several publications on economics, health and safety, labor force and other related issues in the United States. `Who Counts: The Politics of Census--Taking in Contemporary America,' by Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg; `Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development: A Study of the Indian Software Industry,' by Ashish Arora and Jai Asundi; `Globalization and Labor,' edited by Horst Siebert.

Presents excerpts from a paper delivered at the National Industrial Conference Board's March 24, 1965, meeting in Saint Louis, Missouri, on the labor force participation of the youth in the United States. Labor supply and demand trends; Percentage of youths in the labor force.

Lists selected collective bargaining agreements in the U.S. expiring in September 1990 compiled by the Bureau's Office of Compensation and Working Conditions. Construction industry; Food products industry; Textile mill products; Apparel industry; Paper and allied products.

The article presents information on various working papers of the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research. Economists Cade Massey and Richard H. Thaler in their working paper "Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League," investigate how efficient the U.S. National Football League's annual player draft might be from an economic perspective and what might be behind any inefficiencies from a decision-making perspective. Although earlier picks are higher performers, Massey and Thaler find that the fall-off in performance is not nearly as steep as the decline in price as the draft progresses. Economist Benjamin F. Jones' working paper "Age and Great Invention," describes that individual innovators are productive over a narrowing span of their life cycle, a trend that reduces the aggregate output of innovators. Jones examined the great achievements and determined the age at which the innovators made their first contributions. That age, according to Jones, had risen by about 6 years over the course of the 20th century.

Introduces the papers from the annual meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association held in Chicago, Illinois. Theme of the conference; Topics covered by the papers.

Examines the occupational pay and benefits in the papermaking industry in the U.S. Average hourly pay for production and related workers; Occupational group and geographic location patterns of the wage level; Provision of paid holidays and vacations; Availability of retirement plans and insurance coverage.

Outlines public expectations on the quality of performance and purposes od collective bargaining in the United States. Standards of democratic procedure governing labor organizations involved in collective bargaining; Efficiency standards set for collective bargaining; Conformation of collective bargaining results to stabilization guide-posts promulgated by the government.

Examines wages in paperboard container and box plant industries in the U.S. from November 1964 to March 1970. Straight-time average hourly earnings; Vacation provisions; Paid holidays.

Papers from the 10th anniversary conference of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort, addressed schooling, employment, adolescent behaviors, and many other aspects of youths lives [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

States that a three-year contract covering 1,400 workers at Procter & Gamble Paper Products in Green Bay, Wisconsin has been signed with Locals 47 and 65 of the Paperworkers. Expansion of substance abuse testing to include `for cause'; Ratification bonus; Wage increases; Benefit changes; More.

Presents an excerpt of a paper on collective bargaining in the U.S., delivered at the American Management Association's February 1965 Personnel Conference. Restless rank and file; Future job security of middle-age workers.

Lists U.S. collective bargaining agreements that will expire in June 1974. Contracts on file in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Office of Wages and Industrial Relations; Inclusion of agreements covering 1,000 workers or more.

The article discusses the working paper "The Economic Implications of Housing Supply" by Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko. Published by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, the working paper examined the relationship of the number of available homes with house prices, household wealth and the concentration of people across different markets. It also made a comparison between house prices and minimum profitable production cost (MPPC).

The article offers information on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) Symposium, sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) held on December 10, 2010. The conference aimed at bringing together the leading academic and policy users of the organization. Data related to job openings, hires, and separations were gathered by the Survey.

Lists collective bargaining agreements in the United States expiring on July 1976. Allen-Bradley Corp.; Brown Shoe Co.; Fairchild Industries Inc.; Long Island Railroad.

Lists major collective bargaining agreements in the United States that will expire on June 1968.

Presents news briefs related to industrial relations in the United States as of December 1988. Wage agreement between Westinghouse Electric Corp. and trade-unions; End of work stoppage among workers of International Paper Co.; Bargaining agreement in the lumber industry.

Focuses on the selection of the first U.S. Commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Conflicting ideas concerning the method of selecting the Commissioner; Labor candidates for the position of the Commissioner; Appointment of Carroll Wright, a labor statistician, as the Commissioner; Developments in the Bureau under the leadership of Wright.

Lists collective bargaining agreements expiring in May 1984, based on contracts on file at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Office of Wages and Industrial Relations. Employer and location; Industry; Labor organization; Number of workers.

Comments on author Daniel Mitchell's paper 'Does the CPI Exaggerate or Understate Inflation?' Effect of measurement errors in price indexes on overstatement of inflation in the U.S.; House-price indexes; Rental-cost index; Car-price index.

Presents an excerpt from the paper about employment policies that deal with structural unemployment in the United States, presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association in New York City. Reason for the selective employment program; Role of a selective employment program on the reduction of unemployment and inflation; Integration of selective employment into other policies; Improving the labor market information systems and mechanisms.

Lists collective bargaining agreements in the United States, scheduled to expire in June 1976. Employer and location; Industry; Number of employees covered; Trade-unions involved.

The article reflects on the paper by economic development adviser and author Stuart Andreason which discusses the lower unemployment rate for American people with at least a bachelor's degree than those with less education. Topics include the benefits of degree to the individual's employment status and economic condition, the efforts of metropolitan areas to attract more highly educated labor force that would benefit local labor market, and the college-educated share of its labor force.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference held in June 2007 in the U.S., in honor of the 75th anniversary of the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation is presented. These papers discusses employment and America's future. It is reported that the state of the U.S. economy has worsened. Also it is stated that the net effect of economic change in recent decades is manifested in growing income inequality, but the way in which inequality has grown has intensified the problem.

Lists several collective bargaining agreements expiring in the U.S. in July 1978. Names and addresses of companies; Number of workers; Brown Co.; Trans World Airlines Inc.; Hammermill Paper Co.

Discusses the 1-1/2 year overlap sample being used to gauge differences in measures from the old Current Population Survey (CPS) and revised surveys. The effects of questionnaire changes, advanced computerization, and centralization of the interview process will be subject to special scrutiny. Recapping the reasons for change; Overlap sample design; More.

Presents the results of the survey on consumer expenditure in the U.S. compiled as of August 1988. Factors influencing consumer expenditure; Inequality of consumption expenditures across consumer units; Economic aspects of gift-giving behavior; Procedures for income reporting; Income elasticities of expenditure for food; Overview of housing structure attributes and tenure status.

Reports on key issues and developments relevant to industrial relations in the U.S. compiled as of August 1982. Pattern-setting agreement in the garment industry; Strike against American Standard Inc.; End of airline strike; Gainsharing plan in paper mill institutes; Early negotiations in steel industry; Wage-and-benefit concessions; Supreme Court ruling on subcontracting clauses.

Reports on the rise in the productivity of the folding paperboard box industry in the United States during the period 1963-1978. Factors that contributed to the increased production of the industry; Comparison of the industry's performance with other manufacturing businesses.

Presents news briefs pertaining to industrial relations in the U.S. as of September 1977. Ratification of collective bargaining agreement between the members of the Paperworks union and International Paper Co.; Legal assistance program of workers at Chrysler Corp.; Discrimination against handicapped workers filed against two airlines and construction firm.

Analyzes Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. in 1947-1973. Critique of Rita M. Maldonado's paper 'Why Puerto Ricans migrated to the United States in 1947-73?'; Determinants of gross migration.

Presents excerpts of papers regarding the concerns of trade-unions in the U.S., compiled as of March 1977. Role of labor unions in the creation of trade policy; Establishment of international labor standards; Problems facing international collective bargaining; Economic relations between developed and developing countries.

Presents an excerpt from a research paper about problems of the social security reform in the United States, presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Impact of the political process on the fiscal effectiveness of the social security system; Proposal for a price-indexed arrangement; Coverage under the Social Security Act for State and local government employees.

Presents an excerpt from a research paper about the consent decree on seniority in the United States steel industry, presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association in San Francisco, California. Statute eliminating the continuing effects of past discrimination; Reasons why courts require the changing of seniority systems; Required use of continuous service based on the length of employment in a plant.

Presents an excerpt from a research paper about views of management and employees regarding enforcement of job safety law in the United States, presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association in San Francisco, California. Job safety areas of concern to employers; Problems with consensus equipment standard mandated by the United States Congress for adoption; Business' concern with the economic impact of the standards.

The article offers a look at the employment condition in different industries in the U.S. in November 1923. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, generally, an increase in employment volume was reported in November, as well as an increase in wages. Women's clothing, millinery, brick and men's clothing industries reported a decline in employment rate. While steel shipbuilding, slaughtering and meat packing, agricultural equipment and automobile tires industries recorded employment increase. Several charts comparing the employment volume in different industries are presented.