wyszukanych pozycji: 22
New Analyses of Worker Well-Being
ISBN: 9781783500567 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy. Topics include employee compensation, human capital investment, women's wages, unemployment, and the effects of government policies. Among the questions answered are: Does free-trade (particularly regarding NAFTA) affect women's wages relative to men's? Can guaranteeing college scholarships raise high school students' grade-point averages? Does increasing wage dispersion within a plant induce workers to put out more effort; or does it decrease comradery among employees, thereby lowering productivity? Does...
This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy. Topics include employee compensation, human capital investment...
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625,98 zł |
Gender in the Labor Market
ISBN: 9781785601415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to answer this question. Focus areas include educational attainment, financial risk management, bargaining power, social mobility, and intergenerational transfers in the US and abroad.
Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to answe...
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593,03 zł |
Factors Affecting Worker Well-Being: The Impact of Change in the Labor Market
ISBN: 9781784411503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, retirement decisions, the demographic transition, time allocation, and child labor. Among the questions answered are: How important is incentive pay in increasing worker productivity? Does monitoring productivity affect a worker's earnings trajectory? How is the decision to retire different in two-earner families compared to one-earner families? How did the evolution of the family affect men's and women's proclivities to work? Do welfare subsidies...
This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, reti...
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538,11 zł |
Labor Market Issues in China
ISBN: 9781781907566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. This volume presents fresh knowledge on labor market issues in China including topics such as: occupational choice and mobility, over-qualification and hiring, cost of displacement, and the pe
After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market e...
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587,54 zł |
Work, Earnings and Other Aspects of the Employment Relation
ISBN: 9780762313976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume contains 13 new and important never before published chapters covering aspects of the employer-employee relationship. The volume is focused at the academic audience, but is also geared to government and business policy makers worldwide. The chapters use data from the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East to answer a number of vital labor market questions. These include: Why has part-time work increased so dramatically in the 15 European Union countries? What changes in retirement behavior will be expected as countries change pension laws? Why do firms often use fixed-term instead...
This volume contains 13 new and important never before published chapters covering aspects of the employer-employee relationship. The volume is focuse...
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658,93 zł |
Who Loses in the Downturn?: Economic Crisis, Employment and Income Distribution
ISBN: 9780857247490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume contains fresh knowledge on the effects of the economic downturn on employment and income distribution. It contains 9 original research papers from both Europe and the US that were presented at the IZA/OECD Workshop Economic Crisis, Rising Unemployment and Policy Responses: What Does It Mean for the Income Distribution? in Paris in February 2010, including illustrations of forward-looking simulation methods that can be used before detailed data on household experiences become available.
This volume contains fresh knowledge on the effects of the economic downturn on employment and income distribution. It contains 9 original research pa...
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571,06 zł |
Workplace Productivity and Management Practices
ISBN: 9781801176750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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549,10 zł |
Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment
ISBN: 9780198779995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides are the recipients (with Peter Diamond) of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economics 2010. They have made path-breaking contributions to the analysis of markets with search and matching frictions, which account for much of the success of job search theory and the flows approach in becoming a leading tool for microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis of labor markets. Both scientists have gained groundbreaking insights through individual as well as joint research. Consequently, this volume not only features several papers which helped shape the...
Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides are the recipients (with Peter Diamond) of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economics 2010. They have made ...
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184,17 zł |
Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work
ISBN: 9780857240002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contains fresh knowledge to help understand the relationship between child labor and the transition between school and work. This title includes papers that offer insights and answers to issues such as: how to measure child labor; how child labor and schooling affect health; and, how children's time is allocated along gender lines.
Contains fresh knowledge to help understand the relationship between child labor and the transition between school and work. This title includes paper...
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543,61 zł |
Gender Convergence in the Labor Market
ISBN: 9781784414566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages and occupational structures have been converging. This volume contains new and innovative research on issues related to gender convergence in the labor market. Topics include patterns in lifetime work, earnings and human capital investment, the gender wage gap, gender complementarities, career progression, the gender composition of top management and the role of parental leave policies. Among the questions answered are: Do the levels of and returns...
For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages and ...
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554,59 zł |
Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes
ISBN: 9781849506335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How immigrants and their descendants fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question. While differences among ethnicities have been found to be marked and persistent within many host countries, and while the labor market consequences of diversity have been recognized, they have not been sufficiently examined. This volume contains fresh knowledge to help better understand the complex relationship between ethnic or minority groups, the role of ethnic identity and their disparate economic performance; 12 papers that individually and collectively go to...
How immigrants and their descendants fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question. While differences am...
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598,52 zł |
Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment
ISBN: 9780199233786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides are the recipients (with Peter Diamond) of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economics 2010. They have made path-breaking contributions to the analysis of markets with search and matching frictions, which account for much of the success of job search theory and the flows approach in becoming a leading tool for microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis of labor markets. Both scientists have gained groundbreaking insights through individual as well as joint research. Consequently, this volume not only features several papers which helped shape the...
Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides are the recipients (with Peter Diamond) of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economics 2010. They have made ...
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391,81 zł |
Informal Employment in Emerging and Transition Economies
ISBN: 9781780527864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income economies. A large part of economic activity in these countries is not registered or under-declared and many workers enter employment relationships that do not provide any or only partial protection, work with little or no physical capital, receive low wages and work under conditions that can be hazardous to their health. This volume sheds light on the incidence and persistence of informality and the role of institutions and government regulations. The...
Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income economie...
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587,54 zł |
Research in Labor Economics
ISBN: 9781781903575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contains research articles that is relevant to researchers and policy makers. This title answers questions such as: What accounts for the relative rise in skilled worker salaries? Which workers advance more quickly up the corporate ladder? Are workers hired from outside the company as successful as internally promoted workers?
Contains research articles that is relevant to researchers and policy makers. This title answers questions such as: What accounts for the relative ris...
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587,54 zł |
Research in Labor Economics
ISBN: 9781780523323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume contains nine original innovative chapters on worker well-being. Three chapters are on time allocated to work and human capital acquisition, three on aspects of risk in the earnings process, two on migration, and finally one on how tax policies affect poverty. Questions answered include: Are more educated women now opting out of work with a higher probability than in the past? Under what circumstances do young adults allocate non-school time to educational pursuits? How do macroeconomic shocks affect labor force participation rates? Can tax policies alleviate poverty? Are workers...
This volume contains nine original innovative chapters on worker well-being. Three chapters are on time allocated to work and human capital acquisitio...
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653,44 zł |
35th Anniversary Retrospective
ISBN: 9781781902189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 838 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since its inception Research in Labor Economics has published over 350 articles encompassing a wide range of themes and spanning an array of labor economics topics. Authors have ranged from young scholars with much potential to mature leaders in the field, including Nobel Prize and John Bates Clark award winners. Over the years Research in Labor Economics has continued to present important new research in labor economics. It covers themes such as labor supply, work effort, schooling, on-the-job training, earnings distribution, discrimination, migration, and the effects of government policies...
Since its inception Research in Labor Economics has published over 350 articles encompassing a wide range of themes and spanning an array of labor eco...
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741,30 zł |
Jobs, Training, and Worker Well-Being
ISBN: 9781849507660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare. The research deals with earnings inequality, discrimination, the effects of migration, and economic policy. Answers to a number of policy related questions are given including: Why are jobs designed the way they are? Does seniority-based pay provide a sufficient motivation for workers? Do sex-segregated firms grow more quickly than firms more equally divided by gender? What policies are effective in combating discrimination? Why is relative rural-urban income inequality so...
This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare. The research deals with earni...
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576,56 zł |
Inequality: Causes and Consequences
ISBN: 9781785608117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Inequality has been rising in many countries over the last decades and the process seems to have accelerated with the Great Recession. Not only is income distribution more unequal today than 40 years ago, but also its transmission through generations has increased. In other words, many countries no longer experience upward economic mobility as was prevalent in the past. Research in Labor Economics volume 43 contains new and innovative research on the causes and consequences of inequality. Topics include the way inequality is measured, the level of equal opportunities across countries, the...
Inequality has been rising in many countries over the last decades and the process seems to have accelerated with the Great Recession. Not only is inc...
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527,13 zł |
Health and Labor Markets
ISBN: 9781789738629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce. Thus, how a nation allocates resources to the physical health of its population is of vital importance in establishing the economic well-being of its citizens. This volume contains nine original and innovative articles that investigate the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health and resulting labor market outcomes. Topics include the direct link between employees' health and wages, the employment impact of an unfavorable health shock, the relationship between job insecurity and a...
A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce. Thus, how a nation allocates resources to the physical health of...
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477,71 zł |
Transitions through the Labor Market: Work, Occupation, Earnings and Retirement
ISBN: 9781787564626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume contains seven original and innovative articles which analyze labor market transitions, how individuals progress from school to work, choose a particular occupation, move up the job ladder, and finally withdraw from the workforce to retirement. Investigations are done by race and gender; and social implications are examined.
This volume contains seven original and innovative articles which analyze labor market transitions, how individuals progress from school to work, choo...
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472,22 zł |