Author: David Allen JaegerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Essays on Empirical Labor Economics
Author: David Allen JaegerEmpirical Labor Economics
Author: Theresa J. DevinePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195059360
Category : Labor economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume defines the economics of search, which has become a part of the standard graduate curriculum. The concept deals with the costs and benefits to individual workers - either employed or unemployed - of seeking a job with the highest possible pay.
Essays in Empirical Labor Economics: Evidence on Health, Education and Migration
Author: Anna BusseImmigration Economics
Author: George J. BorjasPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674369912
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today a central subject of research in modern labor economics, which seeks to put into perspective and explain this historic demographic transformation. Immigration Economics synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows. Economist George Borjas lays out with clarity and rigor a full spectrum of topics, including migrant worker selection and assimilation, the impact of immigration on labor markets and worker wages, and the economic benefits and losses that result from immigration. Two important themes emerge: First, immigration has distributional consequences: some people gain, but some people lose. Second, immigrants are rational economic agents who attempt to do the best they can with the resources they have, and the same holds true for native workers of the countries that receive migrants. This straightforward behavioral proposition, Borjas argues, has crucial implications for how economists and policymakers should frame contemporary debates over immigration.
Essays on Labour Markets
Author: Sebastian BuhaiPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051709218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Labor Markets in Action
Author: Richard Barry FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
What Unions No Longer Do
Author: Jake RosenfeldPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726219
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the broad repercussions of labor's collapse for the American economy and polity. Organized labor was not just a minor player during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. For generations it was the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in the United States. Unions leveraged their bargaining power to deliver benefits to workers while shaping cultural understandings of fairness in the workplace. What Unions No Longer Do details the consequences of labor's decline, including poorer working conditions, less economic assimilation for immigrants, and wage stagnation among African-Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, resulting in a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their families.
Workers of the World
Author: Marcel van der LindenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047442849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world. The following questions are central: ▪ What is the nature of the world working class, on which Global Labor History focuses? How can we define and demarcate that class, and which factors determine its composition? ▪ Which forms of collective action did this working class develop in the course of time, and what is the logic in that development? ▪ What can we learn from adjacent disciplines? Which insights from anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists are useful in the development of Global Labor History?
Essays on Political Economy
Author: Frédéric BastiatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Overworked American
Author: Juliet SchorPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465054343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year—a dramatic spurt that has hit everybody: men and women, professionals as well as low-paid workers. Why are we—unlike every other industrialized Western nation—repeatedly ”choosing” money over time? And what can we do to get off the treadmill?