A new, global analytical potential energy surface is constructed for the X A8 electronic ground state of HOCl that accurately includes the HClO isomer. The potential is obtained by using accurate ab initio data from a previously published surface @Skokov et al., J. Chem. Phys. 109, 2662 ~1998!#, as well as a significant number of new data for the HClO region of the surface at the same multirefe...

Studies of the wage effects of unions in South Africa have been largely concerned with the impact of union membership on the wages of African and White male workers. Consistent with findings in the international literature, these studies have concluded that unions compress the distribution of wages in South Africa, and, more specifically, that racial inequality is lower in the union sector comp...

A mathematical model is presented for the spread of viral diseases within human or other populations in which both the dynamics of viral growth within individuals and the interactions between individuals are taken into account. We thus bridge the classical macroscopic approach to the growth and population dynamics of disease at the microscopic level. Each member, i , of the population of n indi...

Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004 There was a time before the first Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS80) in 1980 when what we knew of industrial relations was based primarily upon small scale surveys and case studies. WIRS80 marked a radical departure in the study of industrial relations for two reasons. First, following in the footsteps of a small number of survey ...

Using teacher level data from public, private, and charter schools, we examine how various school level wage frictions such as salary schedules and collective bargaining agreements affect the level of teacher quality across subject levels in U.S. high schools. We find that salary schedules have a significant negative effect on teacher quality, reducing quality by as much as 2-3%. The effect is ...

Performance-related pay (PRP) and performance management (PM) are now a part of the organizational landscape that unions face in the UK’s public services. While PRP and PM threaten the scope of traditional union bargaining activities, they simultaneously offer a new role to unions as providers of ‘procedural justice services’ to both union members and employers. We explore the case of the intro...

We study vibrational predissociation of the HF dimer both by a full coupled channels treatment as well as in the Fermi golden rule approximation. Photodissociation cross sections, linewidths, and rotational state distributions are computed for excitations from the ground state with rotational quantum numbers J51, K50 to monomer stretch excited states with J5K50, both for even and odd permutatio...

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Is There Rent Sharing In Developing Countries? Matched-Panel Evidence from Brazil We provide evidence about the determinants of the wage structures of developing countries by examining the case of Brazil. Our specific question is whether Brazil’s dramatic income and wage differentials can be explained by the division of rents between firms and their employees, unlike in competitive labour marke...

Economists have, at least since Olson (1965), suggested that there is a free rider problem associated with labour union membership. The reason is that union-set wages are available to all workers covered by unions irrespective of whether or not they are union members, and given that there are costs to membership – workers will only join if they are coerced or offered incentive excludable goods....