Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Personnel Literature
Author: Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies
Author: HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
Author: Bruce C. GreenwaldPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Race and Gender Discrimination across Urban Labor Markets
Author: Susanne SchmitzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351712578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This study, first published in 1996, investigates the effects that local labor market conditions may have on the economic status of women and blacks, relative to their white male counterparts. More precisely, it examines the impact that local labor market conditions have on estimates of labor market discrimination investigated in this study are wage discrimination and occupational discrimination. This title will be of interest to students of sociology, gender studies and urban studies.
The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes
Author: Christopher J. FlinnPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262288761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The introduction of a search and bargaining model to assess the welfare effects of minimum wage changes and to determine an “optimal” minimum wage. In The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes, Christopher Flinn argues that in assessing the effects of the minimum wage (in the United States and elsewhere), a behavioral framework is invaluable for guiding empirical work and the interpretation of results. Flinn develops a job search and wage bargaining model that is capable of generating labor market outcomes consistent with observed wage and unemployment duration distributions, and also can account for observed changes in employment rates and wages after a minimum wage change. Flinn uses previous studies from the minimum wage literature to demonstrate how his model can be used to rationalize and synthesize the diverse results found in widely varying institutional contexts. He also shows how observed wage distributions from before and after a minimum wage change can be used to determine if the change was welfare-improving. More ambitiously, and perhaps controversially, Flinn proposes the construction and formal estimation of the model using commonly available data; model estimates then enable the researcher to determine directly the welfare effects of observed minimum wage changes. This model can be used to conduct counterfactual policy experiments—even to determine “optimal” minimum wages under a variety of welfare metrics. The development of the model and the econometric theory underlying its estimation are carefully presented so as to enable readers unfamiliar with the econometrics of point process models and dynamic optimization in continuous time to follow the arguments. Although most of the book focuses on the case where only the unemployed search for jobs in a homogeneous labor market environment, later chapters introduce on-the-job search into the model, and explore its implications for minimum wage policy. The book also contains a chapter describing how individual heterogeneity can be introduced into the search, matching, and bargaining framework.
Equal Opportunity in Employment
Author: United States Civil Service Commission. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Economic Analysis of Labor Market Discrimination
Author: Glen George CainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Unemployment in the OECD
Author: P. N. JunankarPublisher:
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Category : Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Monopsony in Motion
Author: Alan ManningPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400850673
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a systematic challenge to the standard model of perfect competition. Monopsony in Motion stands apart by analyzing labor markets from the real-world perspective that employers have significant market (or monopsony) power over their workers. Arguing that this power derives from frictions in the labor market that make it time-consuming and costly for workers to change jobs, Manning re-examines much of labor economics based on this alternative and equally plausible assumption. The book addresses the theoretical implications of monopsony and presents a wealth of empirical evidence. Our understanding of the distribution of wages, unemployment, and human capital can all be improved by recognizing that employers have some monopsony power over their workers. Also considered are policy issues including the minimum wage, equal pay legislation, and caps on working hours. In a monopsonistic labor market, concludes Manning, the "free" market can no longer be sustained as an ideal and labor economists need to be more open-minded in their evaluation of labor market policies. Monopsony in Motion will represent for some a new fundamental text in the advanced study of labor economics, and for others, an invaluable alternative perspective that henceforth must be taken into account in any serious consideration of the subject.
Personnel Bibliography Series
Author: United States Civil Service Commission. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description