Handbook of labor economics Volume 4B
What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets? "New Developments and Research on Labor Markets" (volume 4B) proposes answers to this and other questions on important topics of public policy. Leading labor economists demonstrate how better data and advanced experimen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co North-Holland
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Handbooks in economics
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| Collection: | Elsevier Handbooks in Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets? "New Developments and Research on Labor Markets" (volume 4B) proposes answers to this and other questions on important topics of public policy. Leading labor economists demonstrate how better data and advanced experiments help them apply economic theory, yielding sharper analyses and conclusions. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models enable the authors of these chapters to reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. Concentrates on empirical research in specific labor markets, including those defined by age, gender, and race Reveals how questions and answers about these markets have changed and how models measure them Documents how conceptual models and empirical work explain important practical issues v. 4B. Earnings, consumption and life cycle choices / Costas Meghir, Luigi Pistaferri ; Racial inequality in the 21st century: the declining significance of discrimination / Roland G. Fryer, Jr. ; Imperfect competition in the labor market / Alan Manning ; Skills, tasks and technologies: implications for employment and earnings / Daron Acemoglu, David Autor ; Institutional reforms and dualism in European labor markets / Tito Boeri ; Local labor markets / Enrico Moretti ; Human capital development before age five / Douglas Almond, Janet Currie ; Recent developments in intergenerational mobility / Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux ; New perspectives on gender / Marianne Bertrand ; Great expectations: law, employment contracts, and labor market performance / W. Bentley MacLeod ; Human resource management and productivity / Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen ; Personnel economics: hiring and incentives / Paul Oyer, Scott Schaefer. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Physical Description: | cii, 773-1823 pages illustrations |