This book examines the wages people earn, the jobs they do, and the effect of government labor market policies on wages and employment. The book synthesizes research findings on these topics, using a human capital framework that no other similar book offers. The authors present an integrated evaluation of education subsidies, training programs, gender and race equality programs, unemployment insurance laws, minimum wage legislation, union protection laws, health and safety laws and employment protection laws.
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"Reservations aside, this book is a masterful synthesis of theory and evidence. It provides a thoughtful and highly readable presentation of the central questions and methodological issues that constitute current day understanding of, and research on, labor markets." Southern Economic Journal
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In examining the wages people earn, the jobs they do, and the effect of government labor market policies on wages and employment, this work synthesizes research findings using a human capital framework that no other similar book offers.
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The life-cycle model concerns individual investment decisions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labourforce participation, net investment fraction, atrophy jobs, union markup, wage locus, subsidising education, hours elasticity, wage offer distribution, atrophy rates, proportion unionised, compensating wage differentials, intermittent worker, unemployment duration, pay dispersion, search intensity, worker ignorance, capacity earnings, intermittent participation, compensating differentials, internal labour markets, human capital model, insider power, reservation wage, household production function, alternative wage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Statistical Abstract, United States, Social Trends, Adam Smith, Age Figure, General Household Survey, Los Angeles, National Longitudinal Survey, Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, San Francisco, Equal Pay Act, Department of Employment, Supreme Court, Wage Labour Figure New!
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The life-cycle model concerns individual investment decisions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labourforce participation, net investment fraction, atrophy jobs, union markup, wage locus, subsidising education, hours elasticity, wage offer distribution, atrophy rates, proportion unionised, compensating wage differentials, intermittent worker, unemployment duration, pay dispersion, search intensity, worker ignorance, capacity earnings, intermittent participation, compensating differentials, internal labour markets, human capital model, insider power, reservation wage, household production function, alternative wage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Statistical Abstract, United States, Social Trends, Adam Smith, Age Figure, General Household Survey, Los Angeles, National Longitudinal Survey, Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, San Francisco, Equal Pay Act, Department of Employment, Supreme Court, Wage Labour Figure New!
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- Handbook of Labor Economics: Volume 3A (Handbooks in Economics) by Orley Ashenfelter on 7 pages
- Labor Economics: Worth Series in Outstanding Contributions by Orley Ashenfelter on 7 pages
- Labor Supply (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature) by Mark R. Killingsworth in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Department of Employment: Financial Controls in Training and Enterprise Councils in England: [Hc]: [1994-95]: House of Commons Papers: [1994-95] by Great Britain on page 257, page 281, and Back Matter
- Labour Economics by Stephen W. Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Unions and Collective Bargaining: Economic Effects in a Global Environment (Directions in Development) by Toke Aidt in Back Matter
- Monopsony in Motion by Alan Manning in Back Matter
- Labour Economics by Stephen W. Smith in Back Matter
- Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal (James A. Johnson Metro) by Nicolas P. Retsinas on page 426
- The Employment Relationship: Examining Psychological and Contextual Perspectives by Jacqueline A.-M. Coyle-Shapiro on page 116
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