Worker wellbeing in a changing labor market

How do workers fare in a continually changing labor market? This volume contains fifteen original scientific papers each examining how socio-economic changes affect worker wellbeing. Among the findings are: most increases in female labor force participation occur among women with high husbands'...

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Other Authors Polachek, S. W.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2001.
SeriesResearch in labor economics ; v. 20.
Subjects
Labor economics.
Labor supply > United states.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849501309
ISSN0147-9121 ;
DOI10.1016/S0147-9121(2001)20
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 432 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Solomon W. Polachek
  • Intergenerational labor market and welfare consequences of poor health / Thomas J. Kniesner, Anthony T. LoSasso
  • Early test scores, school quality and SES : longrun effects on wage and employment outcomes / Janet Currie, Duncan Thomas
  • College quality and the distribution of earnings / Eric R. Eide, Mark H. Showalter
  • Worker training in a restructuring economy : evidence from the Russian transition / Mark C. Berger, John S. Earle, Klara Z. Sabirianova
  • A comparison of the human capital and signaling models : the case of the self-employed and the increase in the schooling premium in the 1980s / Magnus Lofstrom
  • Do returns to human capital equalize across occupational paths? / James A. Freeman, Barry T. Hirsch
  • Has compensation become more flexible? / Sandra A. Cannon, Bruce Fallick, Michael Lettau, Raven Saks
  • Skill-biased technical change and trends in employer size effects / Todd Idson
  • Employment of women and demand-side forces / Donna K. Ginther, Chinhui Juhn
  • Revisiting women's preferences about future labor force attachment : what effects do they have on earnings and what are they affected by? / Bisakha Sen
  • Getting ahead : the determinants of and payoffs to internal promotion for young U.S. men and women / Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
  • The effect of health on employment transitions of older men / David M. Blau, Donna B. Gilleskie
  • Looking again at instrumental variable estimation of wage models in the gender wage gap literature / Astrid Kunze
  • Less-skilled workers, welfare reform, and the unemployment insurance system / Cynthia K. Gustafson Decker, Phillip B. Levine
  • Abuse and work among poor women : evidence from Washington State / Mark W. Smith.

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