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Ulman, Lloyd was born on April 22, 1920 in New York City. Son of Harry Richmond Ulman and Ruth Joanna Langer.
(In Work and Pay in the United States and Japan, authors C...)
In Work and Pay in the United States and Japan, authors Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Nakata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman provide an integrated and detailed analysis of the components of firm human resources systems in the US and Japan. Drawing on data obtained from fieldwork in comparable establishments in these two countries, as well as from national sources, this work examines the relationship between company practices and national economic institutions. The authors address a number of key questions about employer-employee relations. How have major Japanese manufacturing companies been able to convert the assurance of "lifetime" employment security into a source of superior employee efficiency and adaptability, when job and income security have been feared as a source of "shirking" and wage inflation in the US? How have higher economic and real wage growth rates been associated with greater equality in earned income distribution in Japan, when the incentive role of income inequality to worker effort and savings has been stressed in the US? How could Japanese emphasis on employment security in the firm be reconciled with greater price stability and lower unemployment than in the US? This work analyzes elements such as employee training and involvement programs, wage behavior as an incentive system and an alternate channel of savings, and synchronous wage determination (shunto) at work in the Japanese economy that provide for such successes. The book also explores the costs that have been associated with these Japanese accomplishments, as well as who must bear them. In particular, it examines how Japanese women compare less favorably with American women in terms of opportunities for work, pay, and promotion; the higher hours of working time for men in Japan than in the US; and the constraints on mobility for Japanese workers. It also poses the question of whether Japanese unions are weaker than their American counterparts, or just more sensible and far-sighted. Finally, this ork examines the outlook for these distinctive Japanese institutions and practices in a period of slower growth and economic "maturity." Based on a research project carried out in both countries, the book concludes with the lessons that each country can learn much from the employment practices of the other. Work and Pay in the United States and Japan will be essential reading for students, professors, and all professionals involved with employment systems and employer-employee relations.
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Ulman, Lloyd was born on April 22, 1920 in New York City. Son of Harry Richmond Ulman and Ruth Joanna Langer.
Bachelor of Arts Columbia University, 1940. Master of Arts University Wisconsin, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy Harvard University, 1950.
Assistant Professor, Association Professor, Professor of Economics, University Minnesota, 1950-1958. Senior Labor Economics, United States President"s Council Economics Advisers, 1961-1962. Consultant, Federal Reserve Board, 1966-1967, United States President"s Council Economics Advisers, 1963-1968.
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College Oxford
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Director, Institute, Institution Industrial Relations, University California Berkeley, 1963-1981. Professor Economics and Industrial Relations, University California Berkeley, California, United States of America, since 1968.
Editorial Boards, Industrial Relations, since 1961, American Economic Review, since 1969.
(In Work and Pay in the United States and Japan, authors C...)
(Harvard University Press, 1955, Good., Text clean. No dus...)
(Book by Flanagan, Robert J., Soskice, David W., Ulman, Lloyd)
My work has primarily been concerned with the historical determinants, distinctive characteristics, and economic effects of trade unionism and collective bargaining. I began studying the historic determinants and structural properties of American systems and have continued to work in that area. Subsequently, I paid considerable attention to the wider significance of policies of direct wage restraint for the light which such policies shed on the workings of the institutions themselves and on the interaction among collective bargaining, the political process, and economic
stabilisation policies.
This interest has led me farther afield and into work on unionism and macroeconomic developments in postwar European countries.
Active City of Berkeley Personnel Board, 1980. Member of New College Oxford University (Berkeley Citation 1990), American Economic Association, Industrial Relations Research Association (president 1985-1986).
Married Lassie Agoos Finck, July 4, 1948.