Labor in the new economy
By: edited by Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Michael Harper
Contributors: Abraham, Katharine G.; Spletzer, James; Harper, Michael J.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: Studies in income and wealth -- v. 71; Studies in income and wealth -- v. 71.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9780226001432
Subjects: Wage differentials; Job security; Labor market; Congresses
Description: Economists examine a variety of important trends in the new economy, including inequality of earnings & other forms of compensation, job security, employer reliance on temporary & contract workers, hours of work, & workplace safety & health.
Notes: Includes revised versions of the papers and discussions presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, held in Bethesda, Maryland, Nov. 16-17, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Trends in compensation and job quality. What do we really know about changes in wage inequality? / Thomas Lemieux ; comment: Lawrence F. Katz; title: Recent trends in compensation inequality / Brooks Pierce ; comment: Daniel S. Hamermesh; title: Are the new jobs good jobs? / Katharine G. Abraham and James R. Spletzer ; comment: Erica L. Groshen; title: New data for answering old questions regarding employee stock options / Kevin F. Hallock and Craig A. Olson ; comment: Chris Riddell; title: Labor market dynamics, job security, and job attachment. Adjusted estimates of worker flows and job openings in JOLTS / Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John C. Haltiwanger and Ian Rucker ; comment: Robert E. Hall; title: Job loss and the decline in job security in the United States / Henry S. Farber ; comment: Ann Huff Stevens; title: What do we know about contracting out in the United States?: evidence from household and establishment surveys / Matthew Dey, Susan Houseman and Anne Polivka ;  comment: Daniel G. Sullivan; title: Measuring tradable services and the task content of offshorable services jobs / J. Bradford Jensen and Lori G. Kletzer ; comment: Susan M. Collins; title: Hours of work. Why do BLS hours series tell different stories about trends in hours worked? / Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart ; comment: Charles Brown; title: The effects of changing demographics. The effect of population aging on the aggregate labor market / Bruce Fallick, Charles Fleischman and Jonathan Pingle ; comment: Gary Burtless; title: Emerging labor market trends and workplace safety and health / Nicole Nestoriak and John Ruser ; comment: Jeff E. Biddle; title: Measuring labor composition: a comparison of alternate methodologies / Cindy Zoghi ; comment: Stephanie Aaronson.