This volume contains 15 essays devoted to a number of multifaceted issues regarding how public policy affects worker well-being. Of the 15 chapters, the first two are the more general, dealing with overall earnings distribution and overall changes in welfare policy. The remaining chapters examine specific aspects of human welfare. They cover: fertility, disability, minimum wage, pension wealth, human capital investment, migration, health, and earnings. The book culminates with four chapters relating to gender and the family. Ultimately, determining who works, how much is earned, and how these earnings get distributed define the components of individual and social welfare. The topics covered in this volume shed light on these questions.
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Solomon W. Polachek is Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University), where he has taught since 1983. He holds appointments in the Economics and Political Science Departments, and from 1996-2000 he served as Dean of the Arts and Sciences College. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University, and he has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and Princeton.
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For decades, economists and other social scientists have sought to understand the inequality of income (or earnings or wages) using regression models. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
average monthly labor earnings, factor inequality weight, simulated percentage change, disability determination records, unobserved cultural factors, local employment measures, lost labor earnings, own labor earnings, average labor earnings, generosity rates, education level dummies, intended mobility, mobility intentions, female tenure track, mean percentile ranking, own children ages, male wage distribution, childcare specialist, immigrant fraction, employment probits, ethnic origin groups, county fixed effects, own child age, support for public health care, observable personal characteristics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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average monthly labor earnings, factor inequality weight, simulated percentage change, disability determination records, unobserved cultural factors, local employment measures, lost labor earnings, own labor earnings, average labor earnings, generosity rates, education level dummies, intended mobility, mobility intentions, female tenure track, mean percentile ranking, own children ages, male wage distribution, childcare specialist, immigrant fraction, employment probits, ethnic origin groups, county fixed effects, own child age, support for public health care, observable personal characteristics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New Jersey, New York, Current Population Survey, Journal of Human Resources, Family Development Program, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier Science Ltd, Institution Fig, Economic Journal, Employee Benefit Supplement, Los Angeles, Simulated December, University of Chicago Press, Bureau of the Census, National Bureau of Economic Research, Quarterly Journal of Economics, United Kingdom, Women Men, District of Columbia, Solomon Polachek, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hong Kong, Latin America New!
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- Research in Labor Economics, Volume 17 (Research in Labor Economics) (Advances in Austrian Economics) by S. Horwitz on 7 pages
- Labor Economics: Worth Series in Outstanding Contributions by Orley Ashenfelter on 6 pages
- Handbook of Labor Economics: Volume 3A (Handbooks in Economics) by Orley Ashenfelter on 6 pages
- Labor Economics (Foundations of modern economics series) by R. B. Freeman on page 290, page 294, and page 403
- Research in Labor Economics. by Ronald G. Ehrenberg on page 101, page 291, and page
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