Accounting for worker well-being /

This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation, and macroeconomic labor policy. The volume provides answers to a number of im...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Polachek, S. W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI, 2004.
Series:Research in labor economics ; v. 23.
Subjects:
Labor market.
Social accounting.
Wages.
Employee fringe benefits.
Women employees.
Labor policy.
Job satisfaction.
Employees.
Work > Psychological aspects.
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction au travail.
Personnel.
Travail > Aspect psychologique.
Salaires.
Avantages sociaux.
Marché du travail.
Personnel féminin.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale.
employing.
personnel.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Welzijn.
Werknemers.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Output-based pay: incentives, retention or sorting? / Edward P. Lazear
  • Independent contractors and self-employment as systems of incentives and control: theory, empirics, and a survey of evidence / John Garen
  • Job loss in the United States, 1981-2001 / Henry S. Farber
  • A long-term view of health status, disabilities, mortality, and participation in the DI and SSI disability programs / Kalman Rupp and Paul S. Davies
  • AIDS and the market for nurses / David E. Kalist and Stephen J. Spurr
  • Bounding estimates of wage discrimination / Joseph G. Hirschberg and Daniel J. Slottje
  • Assortative mating or glass ceiling: under-representation of female workers among top earners / Elizabeth Becker and Cotton M. Lindsay
  • Is retirement depressing?: labor force inactivity and psychological well-being in later life / Kerwin Kofi Charles
  • The employment effects of domestic violence / Amy Farmer and Jill Tiefenthaler
  • Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and education / Christian Belzil and Jörgen Hansen
  • Collective bargaining under complete information / Carlos Diaz-Moreno and Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez
  • Active labor market policies and real-wage determination--Swedish evidence / Anders Forslund and Ann-Sofie Kolm.

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