Author: Pilar Díaz-VázquezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
On-the-job Training and the Effects of Insider Power
Author: Pilar Díaz-VázquezCan Insider Power Affect Employment?
Author: Pilar Díaz-VazquezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Energy Insider
Author: Training and the Private Sector
Author: Lisa M. LynchPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226498158
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
How can today's workforce keep pace with an increasingly competitive global economy? As new technologies rapidly transform the workplace, employee requirements are changing and workers must adapt to different working conditions. This volume compares new evidence on the returns from worker training in the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Norway, and the Netherlands. The authors focus on Germany's widespread, formal apprenticeship programs; the U.S. system of learning-by-doing; Japan's low employee turnover and extensive company training; and Britain's government-led and school-based training schemes. The evidence shows that, overall, training in the workplace is more effective than training in schools. Moreover, even when U.S. firms spend as much on training as other countries do, their employees may still be less skilled than workers in Europe or Japan. Training and the Private Sector points to training programs in Germany, Japan, and other developed countries as models for creating a workforce in the United States that can compete more successfully in today's economy.
Credit Market Constraints and Labor Market Decisions
Author: Daniela Del BocaDisentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy
Author: Scott M. FuessLabor Markets and Employment Relationships
Author: Joyce JacobsenPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405142308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This innovative text grounds the economic analysis of labor markets and employment relationships in a unified theoretical treatment of labor exchange conditions. In addition to providing thorough coverage of standard topics including labor supply and demand, human capital theory, and compensating wage differentials, the text draws on game theory and the economics of information to study the implications of key departures from perfectly competitive labor market conditions. Analytical results are consistently applied to contemporary policy issues and empirical debates. Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the analysis of labor market phenomena Features graphical in-chapter analysis supplemented by technical material in appendices Incorporates numerous end-of-chapter questions that engage the analysis and anticipate subsequent results Includes innovative chapters on employee compensation methods, market segmentation, income inequality and labor market dynamics Balances theoretical, empirical and policy analysis
Sibling Rivalry
Author: Stefan C. WolterWork and Idleness
Author: Jane WheelockPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401143978
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women. Putting the redistribution of employment on the policy agenda opens up debate on how to ensure a more equitable and fulfilling relationship between the ways we gain our livelihoods and the lives we lead. Growing insecurity in labour markets and changing patterns in the commodification of labour have led to a redistribution of paid and unpaid labour time as the structure of power relations, the gender order, discrimination, and state regulation have been modified. The first main trend affecting insecurity is mass unemployment and the growth of workless households. A second notable trend is a gender-based redistribution of hours worked. The third major trend is a shift from full-time waged work to full-time self-employment. Part I of this book presents the main economic theories driving the continuing divide between the intensification of work and the extension of idleness. Part II documents the ways in which the shift to mass idleness in advanced industrial countries has hit some groups particularly hard: the youngest and oldest age groups and other groups, including disabled workers, have traditionally been subject to discrimination in the labor markets. Part III provides a set of policy prescriptions.
Author: Holger Bonin