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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Corporate Author: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit.
Other Authors: Polachek, S. W., Bargain, Olivier.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.
Series:Research in labor economics ; v. 26.
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505 0 # |a Earnings inequality and market work in husband-wife families / John Pencavel -- Employment dynamics and business relocation : new evidence from the national establishment time series / David Neumark, Junfu Zhang and Brandon Wall -- Who pays for general training in private sector Britain? / Alison L. Booth and Mark L. Bryan -- Wage arrears and inequality in the distribution of pay : lessons from Russia / Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Computers and the wage structure / Michael J. Handel -- The influence of stocks and flows on migrants' location choices / Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang -- Wage and job dynamics after welfare reform : the importance of job skills / Rucker C. John -- Firms, industries, and unemployment insurance : an analysis using employer-employee data / Miles Corak and Wen-Hao Chen -- The impact of deunionisation on earnings dispersion revisited / John T. Addison, Ralph W. Bailey and W. Stanley Siebert -- Maternal education and child schooling outcomes in Nepal / Diane Dancer and Anu Rammohan -- Minimum wage effects on wages, employment and prices in Brazil / Sara Lemos -- Bargaining and arbitration with asymmetric uncertainty / Cary Deck and Amy Farmer -- The employment-productivity relationship with employment criteria / Sumati Srinivas and Michael Sattinger. 
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