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At Home and Abroad : U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective /

Topics include labour-market institutions and unemployment, relative wages and employment, gender pay gap, policy implications and future research directions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blau, Francine D.
Other Authors: Kahn, Lawrence M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the labor-market performance of the United States in an international context
  • Labor-market performance : how does labor-market performance in the United States compare to that in other countries?
  • Labor-market institutions : how do labor-market institutions in the United States compare to those in other countries?
  • Detecting the effect of institutions on labor-market performance : conceptual issues
  • Labor-market institutions and unemployment : macroeconomic evidence
  • Labor-market institutions, relative wages, and employment : microeconomic evidence
  • Labor-market institutions and the gender pay gap
  • Policy implications and future research directions.