Demand for Labor The Neglected Side of the Market

by Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmerman, Klaus F.

• ISBN13: 9780191833847
• ISBN10: 0191833843
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-04-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Introduction by the Editors, Corrado Giulietti and Klaus F. Zimmermann
1. Labor Market Competition among Youths, White Women and Others
2. Spectral Analysis of the Relation between Gross Employment Changes and Output Changes, 19581966
3. Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs
4. Labor Demand and the Source of Adjustment Costs
5. Turnover and the Dynamics of Labor Demand
6. Job Turnover and Labor Turnover: A Taxonomy of Employment Dynamics
7. Minimum Wages and the Demand for Labor
8. The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence From California
9. The Timing of Labor Demand
10. The Costs of Worker Displacement
11. Policy Equilibria in a Federal System: The Effects of Higher Tax Ceilings for Unemployment Insurance
12. Beauty and the Labor Market
13. Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
14. Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre
15. What is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association, 19352004
16. Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation
Where Has Research on Labor Demand Been? Where Is It Going?