Description
Book SynopsisThis authoritative
Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of social scientific knowledge on labour.
Combining theoretical and empirical insights, leading scholars map the latest developments in labour economics, focusing on micro-level data and applied studies. Entries explore the definition, background, and history of key concepts in labour studies, including regional and sectoral labour markets, labour policy, different forms of labour, labour market discrimination, and the decisions facing firms concerning labour. Highlighting the most important aspects of the topics covered, this Encyclopedia gives expert insight into the steadily growing research and public policy debate on labour issues.
The Encyclopedia of Labour Studies will be an invaluable resource for academics and students of labour economics and policy, employment relations, social policy, business, and management. It will also be a useful guide for policy practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of how labour markets function.
Key Features:
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- 58 extensive entries
- Accessible explanations of key social scientific terms
- Provides clear thematic grouping of entries using Journal of Economic Literature classification codes
Trade Review‘This Encyclopedia
will be very useful for all those who want to understand the key issues, findings, and gaps in virtually all major topics in labour economics and related areas. Each one of its nearly 60 entries, all written by international experts in the subjects, provide succinct and focused presentations and thus very useful stepping stones into a particular theme in labour studies.’ -- Pedro Martins, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
‘This Encyclopedia
presents a broad selection of what labor studies has to offer, combining basic theory, empirical evidence, and policy implications of more than 50 topics. Entries are presented in an accessible manner, making this suitable for ambitious students and others who want to catch up on topics in the field.’ -- Maria Stanfors, Lund University, Sweden
'This brand new Encyclopedia
edited by Tor Eriksson offers tremendous insights into labor economics, as well as essential issues of employment relations and human resource management.’ -- Christian Grund, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
‘This book includes a set of thorough surveys by leading researchers in each field. The reader can catch up to the frontier of the topic in the quickest way possible. As a researcher studying the labor market of Japan, I found the chapter on this issue particularly useful.’ -- Daiji Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies x Tor Eriksson 1 Active Labour Market Policies 1 Anders Forslund 2 African Labor Markets 5 Niels-Hugo Blunch 3 Agricultural Labor Markets 9 Diane Charlton 4 Apprenticeships 14 Uschi Backes-Gellner and Patrick Lehnert 5 Beveridge Curve, Matching Functions 19 Juuso Vanhala 6 Dynamic Employment Adjustment of Firms 24 Gerard A. Pfann 7 Early Retirement 27 René Böheim 8 Employee ownership 30 Takao Kato 9 Employer and employee learning 35 Jaime Ortega 10 Employer Search 38 Jan C. van Ours 11 Employment Protection Legislation Impacts 42 Paulino Maria Freitas Teixeira 12 Executive Compensation 46 Martin J. Conyon 13 Firms and Wages 52 István Boza 14 Footballers’ Labour Market 57 Robert Simmons 15 Global Value Chains and Employment Relations 61 Sarosh C. Kuruvilla 16 HRM Practices and Productivity 66 Kathryn L. Shaw 17 Intergenerational Income Mobility 71 Jo Blanden 18 International Migration 75 Mariola Pytlikova and Davit Adunts 19 Japanese Labor Market 81 Ryo Kambayashi 20 Job Design 84 Michael J. Gibbs 21 Job Insecurity 89 Francis Green 22 Job Satisfaction 93 John S. Heywood 23 Jobs, Tasks, Authority 97 Alexandra Spitz-Oener 24 Labor Income Share 101 Saumik Paul 25 Labour Market Discrimination: Ethnicity and Race 104 Mats Hammarstedt and Ali Ahmed 26 Labour Market Discrimination: Gender 107 Dominique Meurs 27 Labor Market Discrimination: Method and Measurement 111 Ali Ahmed and Mats Hammarstedt 28 Labor Market Discrimination: Sexual Orientation 115 Nick Drydakis 29 Labour Market Integration of Immigrants 120 Pieter Bevelander 30 Labour Supply and Taxes 123 Monica Costa Dias 31 Monopsonistic Labour Markets 129 Boris Hirsch and Elke J. Jahn 32 Non-Financial Motivation in the Workplace 133 Gary Charness, Michael Cooper and J. Lucas Reddinger 33 Non-Wage Labour Costs 140 Robert A. Hart 34 Occupational Licensing 144 Morris Kleiner 35 Outsourcing, Consequences for Employees 148 Holger Görg 36 Payroll Taxes: Incidence and Employment Effects 153 Roope Uusitalo 37 Performance Evaluations 157 Anders Frederiksen 38 Performance Feedback: Cognitive and Motivational Effects 160 Marie Claire Villeval 39 Performance Pay: Consequences on Workers’ Health 164 Ioannis Theodissou 40 Performance Related Pay and Performance 171 Tor Eriksson 41 Promotion Tournaments 176 Michael Bognanno 42 Public Sector Labor Markets 180 Claudio Lucifora 43 Recruitment: Internal or External? 185 Jed DeVaro 44 Regional Labour Markets 189 Uwe Blien 45 Returns to Education 194 Franz Buscha and Matthew Dickson 46 Shadow Economy Labour Markets 199 Dominik H. Enste 47 Skill-Biased Technological Change 203 Pekka Ilmakunnas 48 Skills acquisition: workplace learning and workers’ productivity 206 Andries de Grip 49 Strikes and Conflict Mediation 210 John Kennan 50 Team Productivity 213 Hideo Owan 51 Temporary Jobs 218 Lia Pacelli 52 Unemployment: Duration, Incidence 222 Tor Eriksson 53 Unpaid Work 226 Leslie S. Stratton 54 Wage Bargaining Institutions 231 Erling Barth 55 Worker Representation 235 Alex Bryson and John Forth 56 Working Hours 240 Peter Dolton 57 Workplace Sickness Absence 245 Wolter Hassink 58 Works Councils 249 Uwe Jirjahn Index 255
