Research in Labor Economics

by Polachek

• ISBN13: 9780762303120
• ISBN10: 0762303123
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-13
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Summary

Research in Labor Economics focuses on various aspects of labor markets and how these markets affect our well-being. As such, this volume contains eleven chapters: three on labor supply, directly dealing with various aspects of the participation decision; two on human capital, the accumulation of worker skills; three directly on employee earnings; and three on the distribution of earnings throughout society.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Solomon W. Polachek
Changes in Wage Inequality, 1970-1990	1	(18)
Jacob Mincer
What We Know About Employer-Provided Training: A Review of the Literature	19	(70)
John H. Bishop
Asymmetric Information and the Provision of General Training	89	(14)
Animesh Shrivastava
Some Empirical Implications of a Model of Human Capital Investment Under Asymmetric Information	103	(16)
Chun Chang
Yijiang Wang
Work-Related Training and Earnings Growth for Young Men In Britain	119	(30)
Wiji Arulampalam
Alison L. Booth
Peter Elias
Relative Wages and the Returns to Education in the Labor Market for Registered Nurses	149	(28)
Edward J. Schumacher
The Utilization of Human Capital in the United States, 1975-1992: Patterns of Work and Earnings Among Working Age Males	177	(32)
Robert Haveman
Lawrence Buron
Andrew Bershadker
Male-Female Earnings Diferentials in the Scientific and Technical Labor Market in India	209	(26)
P. Duraisamy
Malathy Duraisamy
Rural Public Works and the Poor: The Case of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India	235	(36)
Raghav Gaiha
Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency	271	(26)
George J. Borjas
Glenn T. Sueyoshi
Immigrant Entry Earnings and Human Capital Growth: Evidence From the 1960-1980 Censuses	297	(22)
Harriet Orcutt Duleep
Mark C. Regets
Immigrants and Natives: Comparative Economic Performance in the United States, 1850-1860 and 1965-1980	319	(24)
Joseph P. Ferrie
Minimum Wages: Curse or Blessing	343	(26)
Morten O. Ravn
Jan Rose Sorensen
Eyeballing State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Aggregate Unemployment Duration Data	369
Gerard J. van den Berg
Jan C. van Ours