Aspects of worker well-being

This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum...

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Other Authors Polachek, S. W., Bargain, Olivier
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
SeriesResearch in labor economics ; v. 26.
Subjects
Labor economics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504737
ISSN0147-9121 ;
DOI10.1016/S0147-9121(2007)26
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 466 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Solomon W. Polachek, Oliver Bargain
  • Earnings inequality and market work in husband-wife families / John Pencavel
  • Wage arrears and inequality in the distribution of pay : lessons from Russia / Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Computers and the wage structure / Michael J. Handel
  • The influence of stocks and flows on migrants location choices / Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
  • Wage and job dynamics after welfare reform : the importance of job skills / Rucker C. Johnson
  • Firms, industries, and unemployment insurance : an analysis using employer-employee data / Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen
  • The impact of deunionisation on earnings dispersion revisited / John T. Addison, Ralph W. Bailey, W. Stanley Siebert
  • Maternal education and child schooling outcomes in Nepal / Diane Dancer, Anu Rammohan
  • Employment dynamics and business relocation : new evidence from the national establishment time series / David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Brandon Wall
  • Minimum wage effects on wages, employment and prices in Brazil / Sara Lemos
  • Bargaining and arbitration with asymmetric uncertainty / Cary Deck, Amy Farmer
  • The employment-productivity relationship with employment criteria / Sumati Srinivas, Michael Sattinger
  • Who pays for general training in private sector Britain? / Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan.

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