Handbook of Labor Economics

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Orley Ashenfelter, David Card
Elsevier, Nov 18, 1999 - Business & Economics - 800 pages

A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics. This volume concentrates on the following topics: interactions between the labour market and the macroeconomy; and policy issues within the labour market.

 

Contents

Chapter 26
2944
Growth investment and relative wages
2973
Concluding remarks
2981
ROBERT TOPEL
2982
THE SUPPLY SIDE
2983
Microeconomic Perspectives on Aggregate Labor Markets
2985
VOLUME 1
2986
Job security and firing costs
2991
Job characteristics taste differentials and the gender wage gap
3220
A Survey
3251
A Survey
3253
Chapter 49
3261
Chapter 49
3263
Modeling retirement
3272
Empirical lessons from the retirement literature
3287
Conclusions
3301

Wage setting
3001
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate labor markets
3009
Individual Employment Contracts
3015
On the determinants of institutions
3019
Microeconomic Perspectives on Aggregate Labor Markets
3024
Chapter 46
3029
Labor market institutions
3037
Unemployment growth and labor market institutions
3047
DEMAND FOR LABOR
3049
Chapter 17
3050
Chapter 46
3051
Labor taxes
3057
SUPPLY OF LABOR
3063
Chapter 30
3069
Union Relative Wage Effects
3082
Chapter 47
3085
Chapter 8
3086
A framework for thinking about the causes of longterm unemployment
3094
apparatus for analysis of a topic these new volumes contain a wealth of detailed empirical
3095
Explaining the average exit rate from unemployment
3106
Chapter 47
3107
The consequences of longterm unemployment
3122
The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings
3143
Chapter 48
3145
Theories of race and gender differences in labor market outcomes
3164
Direct evidence on discrimination in the labor market
3191
education and family background
3201
Experience seniority training and labor market search
3207
Chapter 50
3309
VOLUME 2
3353
Chapter 50
3363
THE DEMAND SIDE
3365
Chapter 51
3417
Chapter 2
3418
Chapter 51
3419
Disability transfer policies in the United States
3441
Chapter 3
3442
The behavioral effects of disability transfer programs
3472
A crossnational comparison of disability policies
3492
Retirement from the Labor Force
3524
Job Attachment Work Effort and the Nature of Contracts
3526
Chapter 52
3529
Does crime pay? criminal earnings and risk
3551
Chapter 4
3566
Chapter 52
3567
Chapter 53
3573
Chapter 5
3607
Chapter 7
3621
Author index
1
Chapter
15
OVERVIEW ISSUES
23
Chapter
32
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35
Chapter
37
Labor Markets in Developing Countries
57
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