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Book SynopsisCovers various aspects of the employer-employee relationship. This book answers labor market questions that 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? And, why do firms often use fixed-term employment contracts?
Table of ContentsLabor supply with social interactions: econometric estimates and their tax policy implications. Overtime work, dual job holding, and taxation. Transitions between unemployment and low pay. Why Europeans work part-time? A cross-country panel analysis. Projecting behavioral responses to the next generation of retirement policies. Illegal migration, enforcement, and minimum wage. Earnings losses following job change in Japan: Evidence from a job placement firm. Wages and the Risk of Displacement. How are fixed-term contracts used by firms? An analysis using gross job and worker flows. Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas. Occupational gender composition and the gender wage gap in Sweden. Earnings functions and the measurement of the determinants of wage dispersion: extending the Blinder–Oaxaca approach. Salary or benefits?. List of Contributors. Preface. Research in Labor Economics. Work, Earnings and Other Aspects of the Employment Relation. Copyright page.
