Worker well-being and public policy
This volume contains 15 essays devoted to a number of multifaceted issues regarding how public policy affects worker well-being. Of the 15 chapters, the first two are the more general, dealing with overall earnings distribution and overall changes in welfare policy. The remaining chapters examine sp...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2003.
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| Σειρά: | Research in labor economics ;
v. 22. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface / Solomon W. Polachek
- Accounting for income inequality and its change : a new method, with application to the distribution of earnings in the United States / Gary S. Fields
- Tracking the household income of SSDI and SSI applicants / John Bound, Richard V. Burkhauser, Austin Nichols
- Minimum wages and on-the-job training / Daron Acemoglu, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
- Racial and ethnic differences in pension wealth / William E. Even, David A. Macpherson
- County-level estimates of the employment prospects of low-skill workers / David C. Ribar
- Determinants of immigrant selectivity and skills / Madeline Zavodny
- Immigration and the labor force participation of low-skill native workers / Hannes Johannsson, Stephan Weiler, Steven Shulman
- Children, non-discriminatory provision of fringe benefits, and household labor market decisions / Mark C. Berger, Dan A. Black, Amitabh Chandra, Frank A. Scott
- Wage gains from better health and employment-based health insurance / Paul Fronstin, Alphonse G. Holtmann, Kerry Anne McGeary
- The family gap in pay : evidence from seven industrialized countries / Susan Harkness, Jane Waldfogel
- The relationship between the economy and the welfare caseload : a dynamic approach / Steven J. Haider, Jacob Alex Klerman, Elizabeth Roth
- Why choose womens work if it pays less? : a structural model of occupational choice / M.Melinda Pitts
- New evidence on culture and the gender wage gap : a comparison across ethnic origin groups / Heather Antecol
- Gender differences in reasons for job mobility intentions in higher education / Jennifer VanGilder, John Robst, Solomon Polachek
- New Jerseys family cap and family size decisions : findings from a five-year evaluation / Michael J. Camasso, Radha Jagannathan, Mark Killingsworth, Carol Harvey.
