Worker well-being and public policy

This volume contains 15 essays devoted to a number of multifaceted issues regarding how public policy affects worker well-being. Of the 15 chapters, the first two are the more general, dealing with overall earnings distribution and overall changes in welfare policy. The remaining chapters examine sp...

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Other Authors Polachek, S. W.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2003.
SeriesResearch in labor economics ; v. 22.
Subjects
Labor economics.
Labor supply > United States.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Solomon W. Polachek
  • Accounting for income inequality and its change : a new method, with application to the distribution of earnings in the United States / Gary S. Fields
  • Tracking the household income of SSDI and SSI applicants / John Bound, Richard V. Burkhauser, Austin Nichols
  • Minimum wages and on-the-job training / Daron Acemoglu, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
  • Racial and ethnic differences in pension wealth / William E. Even, David A. Macpherson
  • County-level estimates of the employment prospects of low-skill workers / David C. Ribar
  • Determinants of immigrant selectivity and skills / Madeline Zavodny
  • Immigration and the labor force participation of low-skill native workers / Hannes Johannsson, Stephan Weiler, Steven Shulman
  • Children, non-discriminatory provision of fringe benefits, and household labor market decisions / Mark C. Berger, Dan A. Black, Amitabh Chandra, Frank A. Scott
  • Wage gains from better health and employment-based health insurance / Paul Fronstin, Alphonse G. Holtmann, Kerry Anne McGeary
  • The family gap in pay : evidence from seven industrialized countries / Susan Harkness, Jane Waldfogel
  • The relationship between the economy and the welfare caseload : a dynamic approach / Steven J. Haider, Jacob Alex Klerman, Elizabeth Roth
  • Why choose womens work if it pays less? : a structural model of occupational choice / M.Melinda Pitts
  • New evidence on culture and the gender wage gap : a comparison across ethnic origin groups / Heather Antecol
  • Gender differences in reasons for job mobility intentions in higher education / Jennifer VanGilder, John Robst, Solomon Polachek
  • New Jerseys family cap and family size decisions : findings from a five-year evaluation / Michael J. Camasso, Radha Jagannathan, Mark Killingsworth, Carol Harvey.

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