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Evidence-based policy making in labor economics the IZA world of labor guide 2018 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: IZA (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) (sponsoring body.)
Otros Autores: Hamermesh, Daniel S. (Editor ), Nottmeyer, Olga K. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Information, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Competing interests
  • About IZA
  • Editorial board
  • Introduction
  • Section I: Program evaluation
  • 1. Maternity leave versus early childcare-What are the long-term consequences for children?
  • 2. How to reduce workplace absenteeism
  • 3. The influence of occupational licensing and regulation
  • 4. Job search monitoring and assistance for the unemployed
  • 5. Do post-prison job opportunities reduce recidivism?
  • Section II: Behavioral and personnel economics
  • 6. Multitasking at work: Do firms get what they pay for?
  • 7. Relative pay, effort, and labor supply
  • 8. Working in family firms
  • 9. The value of hiring through employee referrals in developed countries
  • 10. Gender differences in corporate hierarchies
  • 11. Production spillovers: Are they valued?
  • 12. Skill utilization at work: Opportunity and motivation
  • 13. Relative deprivation in the labor market
  • Section III: Migration and ethnicity
  • 14. Why does unemployment differ for immigrants?
  • 15. Family-friendly and human-capital-based immigration policy
  • 16. The portability of social benefits across borders
  • 17. Racial wage differentials in developed countries
  • 18. Measuring flows of international migration
  • 19. Demographic and economic determinants of migration
  • 20. Is high-skilled migration harmful to tax systems' progressivity?
  • 21. Economic effects of differences in dialect
  • Section IV: Labor markets and institutions
  • 22. Trade and labor markets: Lessons from China's rise
  • 23. How does monetary policy affect labor demand and labor productivity?
  • 24. Why does part-time employment increase in recessions?
  • 25. Aggregate labor productivity
  • 26. Firm size and business cycles
  • 27. Working hours: Past, present, and future
  • 28. Competitiveness, labor market institutions, and monetary policy
  • 29. Hours vs employment in response to demand shocks
  • 30. Unemployment and the role of supranational policies
  • 31. Compensating displaced workers
  • 32. How should job displacement wage losses be insured?
  • 33. Why is youth unemployment so high and different across countries?
  • 34. Multiple job-holding: Career pathway or dire straits?
  • 35. Effects of regulating international trade on firms and workers
  • 36. Defining informality vs mitigating its negative effects
  • 37. International trade and economic insecurity
  • 38. Do firms' wage-setting powers increase during recessions?
  • 39. How does international trade affect household welfare?
  • Section V: Transition and emerging economies
  • 40. One-company towns: Scale and consequences
  • 41. The automotive industry in Central Europe: A success?
  • 42. The changing nature of jobs in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 43. Do trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe make a difference?
  • 44. Returns to language skills in transition economies
  • 45. Wage policies in the public sector during wholesale privatization