Accounting for worker well-being

This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation, and macroeconomic labor policy. The volume provides answers to a number of im...

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Other Authors Polachek, S. W.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2004.
SeriesResearch in labor economics ; v. 23.
Subjects
Labor economics.
Labor supply > United States.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502733
ISSN0147-9121 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xiv, 441 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Solomon W. Polachek
  • Output-based pay : incentives, retention or sorting? / Edward P. Lazear
  • A long-term view of health status, disabilities, mortality, and participation in the DI and SSI disability programs / Kalman Rupp, Paul S. Davies
  • AIDS and the market for nurses / David E. Kalist, Stephen J. Spurr
  • Bounding estimates of wage discrimination / Joseph G. Hirschberg, Daniel J. Slottje
  • Assortative mating or glass ceiling : under-representation of female workers among top earners / Elizabeth Becker, Cotton M. Lindsay
  • Is retirement depressing? : labor force inactivity and psychological well-being in later life / Kerwin Kofi Charles
  • Independent contractors and self-employment as systems of incentives and control : theory, empirics, and a survey of evidence / John Garen
  • The employment effects of domestic violence / Amy Farmer, Jill Tiefenthaler
  • Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and education / Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
  • Collective bargaining under complete information / Carlos Diaz-Moreno, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez
  • Active labour market policies and real-wage determination : Swedish evidence / Anders Forslund, Ann-Sofie Kolm
  • Job loss in the United States, 1981-2001 / Henry S. Farber.

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