Aspects of worker well-being
This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2007.
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| Series: | Research in labor economics ;
v. 26. |
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| Online Access: | ebrary View fulltext via EzAccess Emerald MyiLibrary |
| Summary: | This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening of the family earnings distribution? To what extent does the decline in unionization widen the distribution of earnings? To what extent do computers exp. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 v.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780080475509 (electronic bk.) 0080475507 (electronic bk.) 9781849504737 (electronic bk.) 1849504733 (electronic bk.) |