Factors affecting worker well-being the impact of change in the labor market /

• Other Authors: Polachek, S. W., Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Series: Research in labor economics ; v. 40.
• Subjects: Political Science > Labor & Industrial Relations.; Labour economics.; Labor.; Labor market.; Labor economics.; Well-being.; Labor > Social aspects.

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, retirement decisions, the demographic transition, time allocation, and child labor. Among the questions answered are: How important is incentive pay in in...

Table of Contents:

• Explaining the revolution in U.S. fertility, schooling and women's work among households formed in 1875, 1900 and 1925 / Matthias Cinyabuguma, William Lord, Christelle Viauroux
• Integrating retirement models : understanding household retirement decisions / Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier
• The role of degree attainment in the differential impact of job corps on adolescents and young adults / Maria Bampasidou ... [et al.]
• Insecure, sick and unhappy? Well-being consequences of temporary employment contracts / Vincenzo Carrieri ... [et al.]
• The effect of land title on child labor supply : empirical evidence from Brazil / Mauricio Moura, Rodrigo Bueno
• The changing time use of U.S. welfare recipients between 1992 and 2005 / Marie Connolly
• Does higher education quality matter in the UK? / Arnaud Chevalier
• Business visits and the quest for external knowledge / Massimiliano Tani.