Michael H Belzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 990144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael H Belzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael H |
| FAMILY NAME | Belzer |
| SIGNATURE | BELZER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University Detroit Michigan USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7069-5838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intrastate Truck Driver Pay and Safety: A Longitudinal Analysis
Truck drivers, their employers, and the public bear the costs of large truck crashes. Prior research finds that truck drivers tend to have fewer crashes when they are paid more, yet much of the U.S. industry operates with low pay and high turnover. We use carrier‐level safety records and regional earnings information covering more than 40,000 carriers to show that the pay‐safety relationship weakens during periods of labor market slack or heighte…
Empirical Evidence of Toll Road Traffic Diversion and Implications for Highway Infrastructure Privatization
Little scholarly empirical work measures truckers’ elasticity of demand for limited access toll roads. How do truckers respond to pricing signals? As price increases, how extensively do truckers divert from limited-access highways to secondary roads? At what price does this diversion impose costs on secondary highways? Using a unique data set, this article demonstrates empirically the extent to which pricing leads to diversion. Diversion is subst…
Pay Incentives and Truck Driver Safety: A Case Study
This paper explores the safety consequences of increasing truck driver pay. The test case the authors examine involves a large over-the-road truckload firm that on February 25, 1997, raised wages an average of 39.1%. An analysis that controls for demographic and operational factors, including prior driving experience and experience acquired on the job, suggests that for drivers employed during the lower pay regime and retained in the higher pay r…
History
Industrial Relations Theory
Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation
In 1977 the US government began to loosen regulations on the tightly controlled trucking industry, expecting that increased competition would drive down companies' shipping costs. In this provocative new book Michael H. Belzer takes a close look at trucking deregulation, discussing its effects on the industry in particular and the unintended consequences of deregulation in general. He makes the case that government still has a role to play in ame…
Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations
CONTENTS: Introduction, Human Resources, National Competitiveness, and Employee Welfare. The Mutual Gains Enterprise. Choice and Diffusion of Mutual Gains Strategies. Human Resources and Organizational Governance. The Role of Labour and Worker Representation. Institutions and Policies for Human Resource Development. Toward a Mutual Gains Labour-Management Policy. Building a Mutual Gains coalition
Pedal to the Metal: The Work Lives of Truckers
Collision: How the Rank and File Took Back the Teamsters
Collective Bargaining after Deregulation: Do the Teamsters Still Count
Using data from the American Trucking Associations and a 1991 telephone survey of 223 major firms in the general freight segment of the trucking industry (SIC 4213), the author describes the restructuring of the trucking industry that occurred following economic deregulation that began in 1977 and examines how that restructuring affected industrial relations outcomes such as wages and union strength. He finds that both market concentration and co…
Just the Working Life: Opposition and Accommodation in Daily Industrial Life
Based on interviews with workers at a chemical factory, this study elicits perceptions of authority relations at work and provides information on the degree to which people see these relations as legitimate. The employees discuss safety, self-fulfillment and resistance to authority
Pay Incentives and Truck Driver Safety: A Case Study
This paper explores the safety consequences of increasing truck driver pay. The test case the authors examine involves a large over-the-road truckload firm that on February 25, 1997, raised wages an average of 39.1%. An analysis that controls for demographic and operational factors, including prior driving experience and experience acquired on the job, suggests that for drivers employed during the lower pay regime and retained in the higher pay r…
Collective Bargaining after Deregulation: Do the Teamsters Still Count
Using data from the American Trucking Associations and a 1991 telephone survey of 223 major firms in the general freight segment of the trucking industry (SIC 4213), the author describes the restructuring of the trucking industry that occurred following economic deregulation that began in 1977 and examines how that restructuring affected industrial relations outcomes such as wages and union strength. He finds that both market concentration and co…
Just the Working Life: Opposition and Accommodation in Daily Industrial Life
Based on interviews with workers at a chemical factory, this study elicits perceptions of authority relations at work and provides information on the degree to which people see these relations as legitimate. The employees discuss safety, self-fulfillment and resistance to authority
Collision: How the Rank and File Took Back the Teamsters
Collective Bargaining after Deregulation: Do the Teamsters Still Count
Using data from the American Trucking Associations and a 1991 telephone survey of 223 major firms in the general freight segment of the trucking industry (SIC 4213), the author describes the restructuring of the trucking industry that occurred following economic deregulation that began in 1977 and examines how that restructuring affected industrial relations outcomes such as wages and union strength. He finds that both market concentration and co…
Pedal to the Metal: The Work Lives of Truckers
Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations
CONTENTS: Introduction, Human Resources, National Competitiveness, and Employee Welfare. The Mutual Gains Enterprise. Choice and Diffusion of Mutual Gains Strategies. Human Resources and Organizational Governance. The Role of Labour and Worker Representation. Institutions and Policies for Human Resource Development. Toward a Mutual Gains Labour-Management Policy. Building a Mutual Gains coalition
Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation
In 1977 the US government began to loosen regulations on the tightly controlled trucking industry, expecting that increased competition would drive down companies' shipping costs. In this provocative new book Michael H. Belzer takes a close look at trucking deregulation, discussing its effects on the industry in particular and the unintended consequences of deregulation in general. He makes the case that government still has a role to play in ame…
History
Industrial Relations Theory
Pay Incentives and Truck Driver Safety: A Case Study
This paper explores the safety consequences of increasing truck driver pay. The test case the authors examine involves a large over-the-road truckload firm that on February 25, 1997, raised wages an average of 39.1%. An analysis that controls for demographic and operational factors, including prior driving experience and experience acquired on the job, suggests that for drivers employed during the lower pay regime and retained in the higher pay r…
Empirical Evidence of Toll Road Traffic Diversion and Implications for Highway Infrastructure Privatization
Little scholarly empirical work measures truckers’ elasticity of demand for limited access toll roads. How do truckers respond to pricing signals? As price increases, how extensively do truckers divert from limited-access highways to secondary roads? At what price does this diversion impose costs on secondary highways? Using a unique data set, this article demonstrates empirically the extent to which pricing leads to diversion. Diversion is subst…
Intrastate Truck Driver Pay and Safety: A Longitudinal Analysis
Truck drivers, their employers, and the public bear the costs of large truck crashes. Prior research finds that truck drivers tend to have fewer crashes when they are paid more, yet much of the U.S. industry operates with low pay and high turnover. We use carrier‐level safety records and regional earnings information covering more than 40,000 carriers to show that the pay‐safety relationship weakens during periods of labor market slack or heighte…
Economics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Truck (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Transport and Economic Policies (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Trucking industry (3 works) · Competition (biology) (2 works)