Labour / income economics Books
Oxford University Press Inc The Immigrant Superpower
Book SynopsisAn insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States'' economic power and national security.America was built by immigrants, yet there has long been strong political opposition to immigration. In recent years, the hostility toward immigration has reached a tipping point. While partisan fighting and confusion over basic policy dominate a broken conversation, we often overlook a fundamental American truth: immigration makes America great.In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has been a source of American strength and American exceptionalism since the nation''s founding. This book explores how immigration is essential to the military strength, economic power, and innovation of the United States. By combining stories of immigrants who have contributed to the American experience, including in the military and business, with analysis of immigration''s effects on wages and unemployment, Kane presents a clear defense of greater immigration as a matter of national security. The only way to win the great power competition of the twenty-first century is to embrace America''s identity as a nation of immigrants. As politicians in Washington continue to negotiate with no intention to reach an agreement, Kane exposes the immigration consensus hiding in plain sight. Using original, in-depth surveys of American attitudes toward immigration reform he maps out a step-by-step process to achieve reform. Straight-talking and full of common sense, The Immigrant Superpower stands in sharp contrast to the wholly dysfunctional debate about immigration in the United States.Trade ReviewA well-informed analysis of a perennial problem. * Kirkus *
£14.99
OUP Oxford Youth and Employment in Modern Britain
Book SynopsisThis book provides the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of the role and importance of youth and employment in Britain.Trade Review`Particularly useful for a detailed study of youth training - an in-depth guide, but easy to read.' Alan Robertshaw, University of Lancaster`This book is an excellent expose of issues.' Cyprian Lunga, University of NottinghamA much needed update on the rapidly changing situation of youth and employment ... A highly readable and even-handed assessment of the topic. * NEWI *Useful little book ... this book provides an up-to-date, thorough and accessible overview of empirical evidence on youth and employmeny and an account of the main areas of debate. * Work, Employment and Society *
£52.99
Oxford University Press, USA Industrial Organization A European Perspective
Book SynopsisA guide to the main determinants of firm structure, market structure, industrial innovation, and static market performance. It also looks at the policy issues raised by collusion and the behaviour of dominant firms, with reference to EU competition policy, focusing on performance in and policy toward imperfectly competitive international markets.Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Background ; 2. Oligopoly markets: noncooperative behaviour ; 3. Collusion and tacit collusion ; 4. Dominance ; 5. Innovation ; 6. Organization ; 7. Imperfect competition and international trade: I ; 8. Imperfect competition and international trade: II ; 9. Trade policy and competition policy ; 10. Market integration in the European Union ; References
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Oxford University Press Models for Dynamic Macroeconomics
Book SynopsisModels for Dynamic Macroeconomics provides the advanced student with key methodological tools for the dynamic analysis of a core selection of macroeconomic phenomena, including consumption and investment choices, employment and unemployment outcomes, and economic growth. The technical treatment of these tools will enable the student to handle current journal literature, while not assuming any particular familiarity with advanced analytical tools or mathematical notions. As these tools are introduced, they are related to particular applications to illustrate their use. Each chapter includes exercises which propose extensions to the model discussed in the text as well as end of chapter review exercises designed to consolidate learning. All exercise solutions are provided at the end of the book and further reading is discussed at the end of each chapter.By bridging the gap between undergraduate economics and modern microfounded macroeconomic research, this book will be of interest to gradTrade Review'This excellent book, written by two leaders of their field, provides a rigorous introduction to modern dynamic macroeconomics. It provides the modern perspective on consumption, investment and labor markets before putting it all together in models of general equilibrium as well as models of coordination failures. The book provides a much needed stepping stone so that students can cross the gap between undergraduate textbooks and the modern literature. I recommend it highly for serious advanced undergraduate courses, as a basic text for graduate courses, and as a reference text.' * Harald Uhlig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Dynamic Consumption Theory ; 1.1 Permanent Income and Optimal Consumption ; 1.2 Empirical Issues ; 1.3 The Role of Precautionary Saving ; 1.4 Consumption and Financial Returns ; Appendix A1: Dynamic Programming ; Review Exercises ; Further Reading ; References ; 2. Dynamic Models of Investment ; 2.1 Convex Adjustment Costs ; 2.2 Continuous-Time Optimization ; 2.3 Steady-State and Adjustment Paths ; 2.4 The Value of Capital and Future Cash Flows ; 2.5 Average Value Capital ; 2.6 A Dynamic IS-LM Model ; 2.7 Linear Adjustment Costs ; 2.8 Irreversible Investment Under Certainty ; Appendix A2: Hamiltonian Optimization Methods ; Review Exercises ; Further Readings ; References ; 3. Adjustment Costs in the Labor Market ; 3.1 Hiring and Firing Costs ; 3.2 The Dynamics of Employment ; 3.3 Average Long-Run Effects ; 3.4 Adjustment Costs and Labor Allocation ; Appendix A3: (Two-State) Markov Processes ; Review Exercises ; Further Reading ; References ; 4. Growth in Dynamic General Equilibrium ; 4.1 Production, Savings, and Growth ; 4.2 Dynamic Optimization ; 4.3 Decentralized Production and Investment Decisions ; 4.4 Measurement of "Progress": the Solow Residual ; 4.5 Endogenous Growth and Market Imperfections ; Review Exercises ; Further Exercises ; References ; 5. Coordination and Externalities in Macroeconomics ; 5.1 Trading Externalities and Multiple Equilibria ; 5.2 A Search Model of Money ; 5.3 Search Externalities in the Labor Market ; 5.4 Dynamics ; 5.5 Externalities and Efficiency ; Review Exercises ; Further Reading ; References ; Answers to Exercises
£57.60
Oxford University Press The Japanese Employment System
Book SynopsisThe stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan. This comprehensive study looks at how the Japanese employment system is adapting to its new economic environment. Using the latest statistical evidence, the book focusses on the growing use of part-time and other forms of atypical employment relationships and illustrates how this is expressed in several different parts of the labour market. Particular attention is given to the changing situation of women, the decline of the family enterprise, the problems faced by older workers and the poor prospects for recent high school graduates. The recent rise in unemployment, including hidden unemployment is analysed. Relations between management and employees in Japanese corporations are also becoming more individualistic with the introduction of performance-related pay and the declining importance of enterprise unions. As a result of these changes, the future may seTrade ReviewRebick does a masterful job of drawing on a wide range of published statistics and reports to cover major features of employment relations and their recent changes in Japan."The book is amazingly up-to-date and wide ranging in its coverage". * Journal of Japanese Studies *Rebick is to be saluted for his magnificent presentation of so many issuesa superb English-language guide on the Japanese labor market. I recommend it to all readers with an interest in Japanese employment issues. * Social Science Japan Journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Japanese employment system ; 3. Changes for regular employees ; 4. Non-standard employment ; 5. Industrial relations ; 6. Unemployment and inequality ; 7. Women ; 8. Older workers ; 9. Youth ; 10. The declining labour force ; 11. Conclusions and prospects
£135.00
Oxford University Press, USA The Mismanagement of Talent Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy
Book SynopsisThe knowledge economy conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, a world increasingly open to all rather than a few. Glossy corporate brochures present a future in challenging, exciting and financially rewarding jobs for the winners in the competition for fast track management appointments. They also convey an image of enlightened employers actively seeking to diversify their talent pool, reflected in their approach to identifying, hiring and retaining outstanding talent. We are told that the challenge confronting governments around the world is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, dismantle barriers to talent regardless of social circumstances, gender, or skin colour, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy.The Mismanagement of Talent comes to a different conclusion. Those leaving the world of mass higher education find themselves in a scramble for jobs with rising stakes for the winners and losers. The Mismanagement of Talent examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ''the game'' to win a competitive advantage and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education. The Mismanagement of Talent will be thought-provoking and controversial reading for those involved in the recruitment of graduates, and those concerned with the way knowledge-based firms recruit and the impact of higher education policy: Professionals working in university careers services, HRM, training, or recruitment generally; Researchers, academics, or students of Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Public Policy, Education, or Sociology; and Job candidates themselves - the ''players'' and ''purists'' described in the book.Trade ReviewThe strength of the book is its empirical material in support of insightful critiques of our contemporary economy, job market and recruitment industry.Table of Contents1. The Promise ; 2. The New Competition ; 3. What Knowledge Economy? ; 4. War for Talent ; 5. The Science of Gut Feelings ; 6. Players and Purists ; 7. Picking Winners ; 8. The Mismanagement of Talent ; 9. The Great Training Robbery
£49.40
Oxford University Press Collision Course
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mr. McCartin deals with policy but also with personalities, and the book is better for it. For anyone at all interested in labor or business history, I recommend it."--The New York Times "[C]onvincing...draws a vivid picture of a culture and how, as much as the realities an organization faces, that culture can determine the group's behavior."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "[McCartin] patiently lays out the full background and aftermath of the PATCO tragedy in Collision Course, an absorbing, detailed and shrewdly observed chronicle of the strike and PATCO's unlikely rise and fall."--The Nation "The definitive account of the PATCO strike...Collision Course's treatment of worker and political power should help inform trade unions' strategies today, and perhaps prompt discussion of how to revitalize the greatest source of worker power: the strike."--In These Times "The air traffic controllers' strike in August 1981 was a defining moment for the Reagan presidency and the American labor movement. By firing the air traffic controllers, and successfully replacing them, Reagan heralded the end of a political era when labor unions--and the workers they represented--were an integral part of the American social contract. Joseph McCartin tells the story in gripping detail. It's must reading for anyone interested in the recent history of American politics and labor relations."--John B. Judis, author of The Folly of Empire "The signal event in the evisceration of the American middle class was Ronald Reagan's breaking the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981. In Collision Course, Joe McCartin brilliantly and compellingly tells this tragic tale, and situates it in the broader narrative of middle-class America's long and sickening decline."--Harold Meyerson, Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect and op-ed columnist for The Washington Post "In an age of obscurantist academic historical writing, Collision Course stands out as a model of accessible and relevant scholarship."--National Review "The Air Traffic Controllers strike of 1981 was one of the most important struggles in American history, and by breaking the union, Ronald Reagan dealt a blow to organized labor from which it has still not recovered. If you care about the labor movement, you need to read Collision Course and even if you don't, you'll be transfixed by the drama of McCartin's story-telling."--E.J. Dionne, syndicated columnist and author of Why Americans Hate Politics "[A] wonderfully good book....In this admirable account of President Ronald Reagan's destruction of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) in 1981-1982, McCartin shows not merely where that destruction fits into a long narrative of the decline of organized labor in the United States but also how tensions between controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) might have been resolved differently."--Journal of American History "McCartin tells the story of PATCO before its inception to years after the conclusion of the strike, a fascinating story with many twists and turns."--Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsPrologue: Getting the Picture ; 1. The Main Bang ; 2. Pushing Back ; 3. Wheels Up ; 4. Confliction ; 5. Course Correction ; 6. Flight Ceiling ; 7. Turbulence ; 8. Down the Tubes ; 9. Pilot Error ; 10. Dead Reckoning ; 11. Trading Paint ; 12. Aluminum Rain ; 13. Debris Field ; Epilogue: Black Box ; Acknowledgments
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Oxford University Press, USA Econometric Methods for Labour Economics
Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible presentation of the standard statistical techniques used by labour economists. It emphasises both the input and the output of empirical analysis and covers five major topics concerning econometric methods used in labour economics: regression and related methods, choice modelling, selectivity issues, duration analysis, and policy evaluation techniques. Each of these is presented in terms of model specification, possible estimation problems, diagnostic checking, and interpretation of the output. It aims to provide guidance to practitioners on how to use the techniques and how to make sense of the results that are produced. It covers methods that are considered to be ''standard'' tools in labour economics, but which are often given only a brief and highly technical treatment in econometrics textbooks. It will be a useful reference for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates, researchers embarking on empirical labour market analysis, and for more experienTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Use of Linear Regression in Labour Economics ; 2. Further Regression Issues in Labour Economics ; 3. Dummy and Ordinal Dependent Variables ; 4. Selectivity ; 5. Duration Models ; 6. Evaluation of Policy Measures ; Conclusion
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics, the first of its kind, comprises 25 chapters contributed by leading scholars in the field who summarize the state of the art in managerial economics and point the way toward future areas of study for students, researchers and practitioners in all business-related disciplines.Trade ReviewThe Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics is a must-have reference tool for business practitioners, consultants, and scholars. The editors have assembled a distinguished list of expert? * spanning over two-dozen areas of the fiel?to provide readers with a wealth of information and tools not found in basic textbooks.Michael R. Baye, Bert Elwert Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University *Table of ContentsPart 1: Nature, Scope, and Future of Managerial Economics ; 1. Managerial economics: Introduction and overview ; 2. Managerial economics: present and future ; Part 2: Managing Demand and Cost Conditions ; 3. Estimating market power and strategies ; 4. Advances in production and cost frontier analysis of the firm ; 5. Supply chain design and risk management ; 6. Combinatorial Auctions ; Part 3: Analytical Foundations of Modern Managerial Economics ; 7. Game and information theory in modern managerial economics ; 8. Issues in analysis of time, risk, and uncertainty ; 9. Behavioral economics and managerial decision making ; Part 4: Pricing and Marketing Tactics and Strategies ; 10. Advances in pricing strategy and tactics ; 11. Product development and promotion ; Part 5: Strategy and Business Competition ; 12. Market imperfections and sustainable competitive advantage ; 13. The new managerial economics of firm growth: the role of intangible assets and capabilities ; 14. Strategies for network industries ; 15. Internalization theory as the general theory of international strategic management: past, present and future ; 16. Competitive strategy in the nonprofit sector ; Part 6: Firm Boundaries and Organizational Architecture ; 17. Organizational design and firm performance ; 18. Design and implementation of pay for performance ; 19. Vertical merger ; 20. The evolving modern theory of the firm ; Part 7: Financial Structure, Incentives, and Governance ; 21. Financing the business firm ; 22. Corporate governance and organizational performance ; Part 8: Public Policy for Managers ; 23. Managing workplace safety and health ; 24. Merger strategies and antitrust concerns ; 25. On the profitability of corporate environmentalism
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The University of Chicago Press Studies of Labor Market Intermediation NBER
Book SynopsisThe diversity of labor market intermediaries encompasses criminal records providers, public employment offices, labor unions, and centralized medical residency matches. This work analyzes how these third-party actors intercede where workers and firms meet, thereby aiding, impeding, and, in some cases, exploiting the matching process.
£110.00
The University of Chicago Press Human Capital
Book SynopsisA study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. This edition has four new chapters, covering topics including: human capital, fertility and economic growth, the division of labour and economic considerations within the family.
£25.65
University of Chicago Press From Parent To Child Intrahousehold Allocations
Book SynopsisHow do parents allocate human capital among their children? The analyses in this text explore these questions by developing and testing a model in which the earnings of children with different genetic endowments respond differently to investments in human capital.
£50.00
University of Chicago Press The Analysis of Firms and Employees Quantitative
Book SynopsisExamines the relationships between human resource practices and productivity, changing ownership and production methods, and expanding trade patterns and firm competitiveness.
£99.00
University of Chicago Press Mexican Immigration to the United States NBER
Book SynopsisFrom debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. This volume provides a historical context for Mexican immigration to the United States and reports findings on an immigrant influx. It is intended for those concerned about social conditions and economic opportunities in both countries.
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The University of Chicago Press Immigration the Work Force Economic Consequences
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from Europe. This timely study is unique in presenting new data sets on the labor force, wage rates, and demographic conditions of both the U.S. and source-area economies through the 1980s. The contributors analyze the economic effects of immigration on the United States and selected source areas, with a focus on Puerto Rico and El Salvador. They examine the education and job performance of foreign-born workers; assimilation, fertility, and wage rates; and the impact of remittances by immigrants to family members on the overall gross domestic product of source areas. A revealing and original examination of a topic of growing importance, this book will stand as a guide for further research on immigration Table of ContentsIntroduction and Summary, George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman 1 National Origin and the Skills of Immigrants in the Postwar Period George J. Borjas 2 Out-Migration and Return Migration of Puerto Ricans Fernando A. Ramos 3 The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market Robert J. LaLonde and Robert H. Topel 4 The Fertility of Immigrant Women: Evidence from High-Fertility Source Countries Francine D. Blau 5 Mass Emigration, Remittances, and Economic Adjustment: The Case of El Salvador in the Late 1980s Edward Funkhouser 6 When the Minimum Wage Really Bites: The Effect of the U.S.-Level Minimum on Puerto Rico Alida J. Castillo-Freeman and Richard B. Freeman 7 On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Trade George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence F. Katz 8 The Effect of Immigrant Arrivals on Migratory Patterns of Native Workers Randall K. Filer
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The University of Chicago Press Flawed SystemFlawed Self
Book SynopsisToday 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. The author delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation.Trade Review"In Job-Search Games, Ofer Sharone develops a cogent, timely, and compelling account of why American employees blame themselves for their failure to secure employment and why their Israeli counterparts engage in system blame instead. Sharone moves the discussion well beyond global generalizations about the role of culture to make an important contribution to the literature of joblessness." (Steven Vallas, author of Work: A Critique)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Consent Changes in the Labor
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The University of Chicago Press The End of the Line Lost Jobs New Lives in
Book SynopsisThis volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that town. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and other members of the community it dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown.
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University of Chicago Press Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume exploit the substantial variation in U.S. tax policy during the last two decades to investigate how taxes affect a range of household behaviour, including labour-force participation, saving behaviour, and choice of health insurance plan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Martin Feldstein, James M. Poterba. 1: Labor Supply and the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 Nada Eissa Comment: James J. Heckman 2: The Taxation of Two-Earner Families Martin Feldstein, Daniel R. Feenberg. Comment: Harvey S. Rosen 3: Labor Supply and Welfare Effects of a Shift from Income to Consumption Taxation Gilbert E. Metcalf Comment: Gary Burtless 4: The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses William M. Gentry, Alison P. Hagy. Comment: Brigitte C. Madrian 5: Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance Jonathan Gruber, James M. Poterba. Comment: David F. Bradford 6: High-Income Families and the Tax Changes of the 1980s: The Anatomy of Behavioral Response Joel Slemrod Comment: Don Fullerton 7: Tax Shelters and Passive Losses after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 Andrew A. Samwick Comment: Roger H. Gordon 8: The Relationship between State and Federal Tax Audits James Alm, Brian Erard, Jonathan S. Feinstein. Comment: James W. Wetzler Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the
Book SynopsisProvides an assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions. This book also provides case studies of labor market institutions and various directions for existing institutions. It presents the story of workers and institutions searching for ways to represent labor.
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The University of Chicago Press Differences Changes in Wage Structures NBER
Book SynopsisFocusing on labour-market institutions, and the supply-and-demand forces that affect wages, these papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in a range of different countries. Varying labour-market systems, and education/training programmes are examined.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction and Summary Richard B. Freeman, Lawrence F. Katz. 1: A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages in Four OECD Countries Lawrence F. Katz, Gary W. Loveman, David G. Blanchflower. 2: International Differences in Executive and Managerial Compensation John M. Abowd, Michael L. Bognanno. 3: The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn. 4: International Wage Curves David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald. 5: The Changing Structure of Male Earnings in Britain, 1974-1988 John Schmitt 6: Real Wages, Employment, and Wage Dispersion in U.S. and Australian Labor Markets Robert G. Gregory, Francis Vella. 7: Labor Markets and Economic Growth: Lessons from Korea's Industrialization, 1970-1990 Dae-Il Kim, Robert H. Topel. 8: Wage Differentials in Italy: Market Forces, Institutions, and Inflation Christopher L. Erickson, Andrea C. Ichino. 9: The Swedish Wage Structure: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Wage Policy? Per-Anders Edin, Bertil Holmlund. 10: Getting Together and Breaking Apart: The Decline of Centralized Collective Bargaining Richard B. Freeman, Robert S. Gibbons. 11: Earnings Inequality in Germany Katharine G. Abraham, Susan N. Houseman. 12: A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets: Before and After Unification Alan B. Krueger, Jorn-Steffen Pischke. Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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University of Chicago Press The Youth Labor Market Problem Its Nature Causes
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics as applied to youth employment, point out the error in many commonly accepted views, and show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood. These studies also supply a significant amount of raw data, furnish a platform for further research and theoretical work in labor economics, and direct attention to promising avenues for future programs.
£92.00
The University of Chicago Press Professional Powers A Study of the
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University of Chicago Press Social Security Programs and Retirement around
Book SynopsisMany countries have social security systems that are financially unsustainable. This title offers a comparative analysis from twelve countries and examines the issue of age in the labor force. It also analyzes the relationship between incentives to retire and the proportion of older persons in the workforce.
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The University of Chicago Press Pension Plans Employee Performance Evidence
Book SynopsisExplores the relation between employees' preferences for certain types of pension plans and their productivity. This text shows how pensions influence workers' behaviour on the job, and argues that these plans can help firms select and pay their best workers without expending monitoring resources.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Ch. 1: Developments in the Market for Private Pensions Ch. 2: Defined Benefit Plans as Implicit Contracts Ch. 3: Impact of Pensions on Quit Rates Ch. 4: Quits and Retirements in the Federal Government Ch. 5: Pensions and Retirement Patterns Ch. 6: Role of Pensions in Earlier Retirement after 1970 Ch. 7: Toward Explaining the Growth of Defined Contribution Plans Ch. 8: Sorting across Plan Type Ch. 9: Encouraging High Discounters to Quit Ch. 10: Aligning Pay and Productivity: 401k Plans Ch. 11: Reliability as a Hidden Worker Attribute Ch. 12: Tax Considerations and Plan Choice Ch. 13: A Pension Tax Policy for Low Discounters Ch. 14: Incentives, High Discounters, and Social Security Ch. 15: Reforms for the Disability and Medicare Programs Notes Selected References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Actively Seeking Work The Politics of
Book SynopsisThe liberal political origins of work-welfare programmes and issues of conflicting goals is documented in this text. With examples derived from Great Britain and America, the incorporation of liberal requirements and private market forces in providing opportunities for the unemployed is discussed.
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University of Chicago Press Free Labor
Book SynopsisThe fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. This book focuses on changes in the language and organization of the political coalitions on both sides of the debate.Trade Review"Brimming with novel analyses and methodological strategies, Free Labor presents both a compelling analysis of the rise of workfare as a neoliberal policy project and a finegrained examination of the travails and partial successes of anti-WEP coalitions." - Marc Steinberg, author of Fighting Words"
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The University of Chicago Press Free Labor Workfare and the Contested Language
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary analysis that draws from interviews, official documents, and media reports to pursue different directions in the study of the cultural and cognitive aspects of political activism. This work aims to instigate a dialogue among students of culture, labor and social movements, welfare policy, and urban political economy.Trade Review"Brimming with novel analyses and methodological strategies, Free Labor presents both a compelling analysis of the rise of workfare as a neoliberal policy project and a fine-grained examination of the travails and partial successes of anti-WEP coalitions." - Marc Steinberg, author of Fighting Words"
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The University of Chicago Press thepsychologyofmathematicalabilitiesinschoolchildr
Book SynopsisThis first book of a three-volume study examines the way trade policies in developing countries affect the level and composition of employment. There is special emphasis on the effects of import substitution policies that attempt to make a country self-sufficient by producing local substitutes for imports, as compared with policies that further the expansion of imports. Ten countries are studied: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, the Ivory Coast, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, and Uruguay. The contributors to the volume analyze the link between trade strategies and employment within a common framework, and the analyses of trade policy include the level and structure of protection, the relation of trade policy to labor demand, the labor intensiveness of trade, and the extent of distortions in factor markets and their effects on trade.
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The University of Chicago Press Trade Employment in Developing Countries V 3
Book SynopsisThe NBER project on alternative trade strategies and employment analyzed the extent to which employment and income distribution are affected by the choice of trade strategies and by the interaction of trade policies with domestic policies and market distortions. This book, the third and final volume to come from that project, brings together the theory underlying the trade strategies-employment relation and the empirical evidence emanating from the project.
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University of Chicago Press The Structure of Wages An International
Book SynopsisExamining linked employer-employee data across countries, this book analyzes labor trends and their institutional background in the United States and eight European countries. It is suitable for economists and those working in industrial organizations.
£124.00
University of Chicago Press Targeting Investments in Children Fighting
Book SynopsisA substantial number of American children experience poverty, and there are numerous programs designed to alleviate or even eliminate poverty. This book tackles the problem of evaluating these programs by examining them using a common metric: their impact on earnings in adulthood.
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The University of Chicago Press Women Adrift Independent Wage Earners in Chicago
Book SynopsisStarting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defined American womanhood, these womenneither victimized nor liberatedcreated new social ties and subcultures to cope with the conditions of urban life. Brilliant. . . . Gracefully written, and mercifully free from the jargon that often plagues social history, this book is a welcome addition to literature in women's, urban, and black history.Ann Schofield, American Historical ReviewMeyerowitz provides a splendid portrait of her subjects. . . . She deserves praise for her demographic spadework, sensitive analysis, and engaging style. This is a valuable and rewarding book.Nancy Woloch, Journal of American History A state-of-the-art product of the new women's history. . . . Meyerowitz's work is an extremely useful contribution, a corrective to over-c
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The University of Chicago Press Workers At Risk Voices from the Workplace
Book SynopsisWorkers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend onglass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toysare produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matt
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The University of Chicago Press Crippled Justice The History of Modern Disability
Book SynopsisThis text looks at how postwar cultural values affected the rights-orientated policy in the 1970s and how this affects judicial interpretations of provisions under the Americans with Disabilities Act. It argues that this has created a lose/lose situation for the people the act was meant to protect.
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The University of Chicago Press Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit and pension policies of the United States and Japan.
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The University of Chicago Press Marked
Book SynopsisNearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work. This book offers a glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market.Trade Review"Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job.... Both informative and convincing." - Library Journal "Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose - and one of the most useful sociological studies in years." - Michael Eric Dyson "How do you tell when a democracy is dead? When concentration camps spring up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it when concentration camps spring up and no one shivers in fear because everyone knows they're not for 'people like us.'... Devah Pager uses a simple technique to show how mass incarceration has undone the small amount of racial progress achieved in the 1960s and '70s." - Nation"
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The University of Chicago Press The Economics of Trade Unions Charles Eliot
Book SynopsisIn this third edition of his highly acclaimed and influential study, Albert Rees updates his material to reflect the major changes in the labor scene occurring during the 1970s and 1980s. New to this edition is a chapter on the decline of private sector unions, and other chapters have been substantially revised. The treatment of the effect of unions on relative wages has been completely recast to reflect the results of recent research. Students of labor economics will find that Rees's well-balanced account provides an excellent, comprehensive view of all aspects of the activities of unions, from their early development and history, through analysis of their sources of power, to the effects of their policies. In the final chapters, Rees broadens his evaluation to survey noneconomic as well as economic aspects of union activity.
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The University of Chicago Press Bitter Choices Paper BlueCollar Women in and out
Book SynopsisEllen Israel Rosen presents a compelling portrait of married women who work on New England's assembly lines while they also maintain their homes and marriages. With skill and sympathy, she documents the reasons these women work; their experiences on the job, in the union, and at home; the sources of their job satisfaction; and their management of the double day. The major issue for this segment of the labor force, Rosen suggests, is not whether to work, but the availability and quality of jobs. Rosen argues that deindustrializationplant closings and job displacementconfronts blue-collar women factory workers with a bitter choice between work at lower and lower wages or no work at all. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews with more than two hundred such women factory workers, Rosen traces the ways in which women who do unskilled factory work have gained in self-esteem as well as financial stability from holding paid jobs. Throughout, Rosen explores the relationsh
£33.19
The University of Chicago Press Investment in Womens Human Capital Phoenix
Book SynopsisThis text explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Sections cover: the experiences of high-income countries; health; education; household structure and labour markets; and measurement issues in low-income countries.Table of ContentsIntroduction by T. Paul Schultz I: Overview and Experience of High-Income Countries 1: Investments in the Schooling and Health of Women and Men: Quantities and Returns T. Paul Schultz 2: Obstacles to Advancement of Women during Development Ester Boserup 3: The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History Claudia Goldin 4: Public Policies and Women's Labor Force Participation: A Comparison of Sweden, West Germany and the Netherlands Siv Gustafsson II: Labor Markets, Uncertainty, and Family Behavior 5: Women, Insurance Capital, and Economic Development in Rural India Mark R. Rosenzweig 6: Information, Learning, and Wage Rates in Low-Income Rural Areas Andrew D. Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig. III: Health 7: Gender and Life-Cycle Differentials in the Patterns and Determinants of Adult Health John Strauss, Paul J. Gertler, Omar Rahman, Kristin Fox. 8: Quality of Medical Care and Choice of Medical Treatment in Kenya: An Empirical Analysis Germano Mwabu, Martha Ainsworth, Andrew Nyamete. IV: Education 9: Daughters, Education, and Family Budgets: Taiwan Experiences William L. Parish, Robert J. Willis. 10: Gender Differences in the Returns to Schooling and in School Enrollment Rates in Indonesia Anil B. Deolalikar 11: Educational Investments and Returns for Women and Men in Cote d'Ivoire Wim P. M. Vijverberg V: Household Structure and Labor Markets in Brazil 12: Poverty among Female-Headed Households in Brazil Ricardo Barros, Louise Fox, Rosane Mendonca. 13: Gender Differences in Brazilian Labor Markets Ricardo Barros, Lauro Ramos, Eleonora Santos. References Index
£112.00
The University of Chicago Press Investment in Womens Human Capital
Book SynopsisThis text explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Sections cover: the experiences of high-income countries; health; education; household structure and labour markets; and measurement issues in low-income countries.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Work and the Gift
Book SynopsisUltimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but simply in our fundamental being-in-common.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press The Work and the Gift
Book SynopsisUltimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but simply in our fundamental being-in-common.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Demography and the Economy
Book SynopsisDemographic studies help make sense of key aspects of the economy, offering insight into trends in fertility, mortality, immigration, and labor force participation, as well as age, gender, and race-specific trends in health and disability. This book explores the connections between demography and economics.
£104.50
The University of Chicago Press Research Findings in the Economics of Aging NBER
Book SynopsisThe baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant. This title takes a eclectic view of the subject. It offers in-depth analysis of the effects of retirement plans, employer contributions, and housing prices on retirement.
£109.25
McGill-Queen's University Press In a New Light Histories of Women and Energy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There are very few works available that combine energy history and women's history. There is no book on the specific role of women in the process of energy system transformation. In a New Light is innovative in its approach and is a great and long-overdue enrichment of the research landscape." Melanie Arndt, University of Freiburg"In a New Light really is a novelty in energy history: it helps push energy concerns into established social and gender history, and it's a book that we really need to have." Paul Warde, University of Cambridge and author of The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c. 1500–1870
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press In a New Light
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There are very few works available that combine energy history and women's history. There is no book on the specific role of women in the process of energy system transformation. In a New Light is innovative in its approach and is a great and long-overdue enrichment of the research landscape." Melanie Arndt, University of Freiburg"In a New Light really is a novelty in energy history: it helps push energy concerns into established social and gender history, and it's a book that we really need to have." Paul Warde, University of Cambridge and author of The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c. 1500–1870
£29.99
Columbia University Press The Global Construction of Gender HomeBased Work
Book SynopsisExplores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s. This title describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities.Table of Contents1. Feminism, Constructivism, and the Global Politics of Home-Based Work 2. Motherly Women--Breadwinning Men: Industrial Homework and the Construction of Western Welfare States 3. Supplemental Earners and National Essence: Home-Based Crafts Producers and Nation-Building in Post-Colonial States 4. Marginal Survivors or Nurturant Entrepreneurs: Home-Based Work in the Informal Sector 5. Fordist Gender Rules at Issue: The Debate over the ILO Convention on Homework 6. Fordist Class Categories at Issue: Are Homeworkers Employees or Self-Employed? 7. Studying Global Politics Appendix: ILO Convention Concerning Home Work Notes Index
£25.50
