Aspects of worker well-being
By: edited by Solomon W. Polachek ; co-edited by Olivier Bargain.
Contributors: Polachek, S. W.; Bargain, Olivier.
Series: Research in law and economics -- v. 26
Publisher: Elsevier JAI; Emerald Publishing Limited; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780762313907
Subjects: Labor economics.; Income distribution.; Wages.; Labor supply.; Work environment.; Welzijn.; Arbeiders.; Inkomensverdeling.; Ongelijkheid.
Description: "The issues addressed deal directly with the economic institutions that affect individual and family earnings distrubtions. The themes explored include job training, worker and firm mobility, minimum wages, wage arrears, unions, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance and schooling."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Earnings inequality and market work in husband-wife families / John Pencavel; title: Employment dynamics and business relocation : new evidence from the national establishment time series / David Neumark, Junfu Zhang and Brandon Wall; title: Who pays for general training in private sector Britain? / Alison L. Booth and Mark L. Bryan; title: Wage arrears and inequality in the distribution of pay : lessons from Russia / Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth; title: Computers and the wage structure / Michael J. Handel; title: The influence of stocks and flows on migrants' location choices / Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang; title: Wage and job dynamics after welfare reform : the importance of job skills / Rucker C. John; title: Firms, industries, and unemployment insurance : an analysis using employer-employee data / Miles Corak and Wen-Hao Chen; title: The impact of deunionisation on earnings dispersion revisited / John T. Addison, Ralph W. Bailey and W. Stanley Siebert; title: Maternal education and child schooling outcomes in Nepal / Diane Dancer and Anu Rammohan; title: Minimum wage effects on wages, employment and prices in Brazil / Sara Lemos; title: Bargaining and arbitration with asymmetric uncertainty / Cary Deck and Amy Farmer; title: The employment-productivity relationship with employment criteria / Sumati Srinivas and Michael Sattinger.