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  • Titel: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part B
  • Enthält: v. 4B. Earnings, consumption and life cycle choices / Costas Meghir, Luigi Pistaferri ; Racial inequality in the 21st century: the declining significance of discrimination / Roland G. Fryer, Jr. ; Imperfect competition in the labor market / Alan Manning ; Skills, tasks and technologies: implications for employment and earnings / Daron Acemoglu, David Autor ; Institutional reforms and dualism in European labor markets / Tito Boeri ; Local labor markets / Enrico Moretti ; Human capital development before age five / Douglas Almond, Janet Currie ; Recent developments in intergenerational mobility / Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux ; New perspectives on gender / Marianne Bertrand ; Great expectations: law, employment contracts, and labor market performance / W. Bentley MacLeod ; Human resource management and productivity / Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen ; Personnel economics: hiring and incentives / Paul Oyer, Scott Schaefer.
    Front cover; Half title page; Introduction to the series; Title page; Copyright page; Contents of Volume 4B; Contents of Volume 4A; Contributors to Volume 4B; Chapter 9. Earnings, Consumption and Life Cycle Choices; 1. Introduction; 2. The Impact of Income Changes on Consumption: Some Theory; 3. Modeling the Income Process; 4. Using Choices to Learn About Risk; 5. Income Processes, Labor Supply and Mobility; 6. Conclusions; References; Chapter 10. Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination; 1. Introduction
    2. The Declining Significance of Discrimination3. Basic Facts About Racial Differences in Achievement Before Kids Enter School; 4. Interventions to Foster Human Capital Before Children Enter School; 5. The Racial Achievement Gap in Kindergarten through 12th Grade; 6. The Racial Achievement Gap in High School; 7. Interventions to Foster Human Capital in School-Aged Children; 8. Conclusion; Appendix. Data Description; References; Chapter 11. Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market; 1. The Sources of Imperfect Competition; 2. How Much Imperfect Competition? The Size of Rents
    3. Models of Wage Determination4. Estimates of Rent-splitting; 5. So What?; 6. Applications; 7. Conclusion; Appendix A. Estimating the Size of Rents from a Search Model; Appendix B. A Model with Heterogeneous Worker Ability; Appendix C. Results Equating Separation and Recruitment Elasticity; References; Chapter 12. Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings; 1. Introduction; 2. An Overview of Labor Market Trends; 3. The Canonical Model; 4. A Ricardian Model of the Labor Market; 5. Comparative Advantage and Wages: An Empirical Approach; 6. Concluding remarks
    ReferencesChapter 13. Institutional Reforms and Dualism in European Labor Markets; 1. Introduction; 2. Institutions and Reforms; 3. A Simple Model of Labor Reallocation and Reforms; 4. Are We Learning Enough from the Reforms?; 5. Final Remarks; Appendix A. The fRDB-IZA Social Policy Reforms Database; Appendix B. Institutions in the MP Model; References; Chapter 14. Local Labor Markets; 1. Introduction; 2. Some Important Facts about Local Labor Markets; 3. Equilibrium in Local Labor Markets; 4. The Determinants of Productivity Differences Across Local Labor Markets; 5. Implications for Policy
    6. ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 15. Human Capital Development before Age Five; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual Framework; 3. Methods; 4. Empirical Literature: Evidence of Long Term Consequences; 5. Empirical Literature: Policy Responses; 6. Discussion and Conclusions; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; References; Chapter 16. Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility; 1. Intergenerational Correlations of Earnings and Education; 2. Identifying the Causal Effects of Parental Education and Earnings; 3. Other Family Background Characteristics; 4. Conclusion; References
    Chapter 17. New Perspectives on Gender
  • Beteiligte: Card, David E. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Ashenfelter, Orley [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Erschienen: Amsterdam; New York; New York, N.Y., U.S.A: North-Holland, 2011
    Online-Ausg.
  • Erschienen in: Handbooks in economics ; 504
  • Ausgabe: 1st ed
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (cii, Seiten 773-1823); Illustrationen
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9780444534538; 0444534520
  • RVK-Notation: QC 220 : Arbeit und Lohn
    QV 000 : Allgemeines
    QV 200 : Allgemeines
  • Schlagwörter: Arbeitsmarkt > Arbeitsökonomie > Beschäftigungstheorie
  • Art der Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  • Beschreibung: What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets? "New Developments and Research on Labor Markets" (volume 4B) proposes answers to this and other questions on important topics of public policy. Leading labor economists demonstrate how better data and advanced experiments help them apply economic theory, yielding sharper analyses and conclusions. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models enable the authors of these chapters to reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. Concentrates on empirical research in specific labor markets, including those defined by age, gender, and race Reveals how questions and answers about these markets have changed and how models measure them Documents how conceptual models and empirical work explain important practical issues

    What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets? "New Developments and Research on Labor Markets" (volume 4B) proposes answers to this and other questions on important topics of public policy. Leading labor economists demonstrate how better data and advanced experiments help them apply economic theory, yielding sharper analyses and conclusions. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models enable the authors of these chapters to reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. Concentrates on empirical research in specific labor markets, including those defined by age, gender, and race Reveals how questions and answers about these markets have changed and how models measure them Documents how conceptual models and empirical work explain important practical issues