Worker well-being

How do technology, public works projects, mental health, race, gender, mobility, retirement benefits, and macroeconomic policies affect worker well-being? This volume contains fourteen original chapters utilizing the latest econometric techniques to answer this question. The findings include the fol...

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Other Authors Polachek, S. W.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2000.
SeriesResearch in labor economics ; v. 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Solomon W. Polachek
  • Technology, unemployment, and inflation / Stephan Danninger, Jacob Mincer
  • Motivation and labor market outcomes / Arthur H. Goldsmith, Jonathan R. Veum, William Darity
  • Career hierarchy in dual-earner families / Anne E. Winkler, David C. Rose
  • Job mobility in 1990s Britain : does gender matter? / Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi
  • Measuring relative quality of life from a cross-migration regression, with an application to Canadian provinces / Stratford Douglas, Howard J. Wall
  • Employer provided pension data in the NLS mature women's survey and in the health and retirement study / Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier
  • A test of Lazear's mandatory retirement model / Steven Stern, Petra Todd
  • Do public works programs work in Eastern Germany? / Florian Kraus, Patrick A. Puhani, Viktor Steiner
  • The incidence of overschooling and underschooling and its effect on earnings in the United States and Hong Kong / Elchanan Cohn, Eric Johnson, Ying Chu Ng
  • The labor-supply effects of universal health coverage : what can we learn from individuals with spousal coverage? / Alison J. Wellington, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
  • Dimensions of the wage-unemployment relationship in the nordic countries : wage flexibility without wage curves / Karsten Albæk, Rita Asplund, Erling Barth, Stig Blomskog, Björn Rúnar Guômundsson, Vifill Karlsson, Erik Strøjer Madsen
  • The extent and consequences of downward nominal wage rigidity / Joseph G. Altonji, Paul J. Devereux
  • Do higher returns to college education encourage college enrollments? An analysis by race / Susan L. Averett, Michele C. Mclennan, Megan Young
  • Do compulsory school attendance laws alone explain the association between quarter of birth and earnings? / John Bound, David A. Jaeger.