Handbook of Labor Economics

by Christian Dustmann (Editor), Thomas Lemieux (Editor)

Overview

Volumes 5 and 6 of the Handbook of Labor Economics will systematically review the research topics, empirical findings, and methods that constitute frontier research in the field. The focus will be on the most important research advances that have taken place since the publication of the previous Handbook Volume 4 almost 15 years ago. - How do factors such as trade, technology, skills, immigration, crime, unions, race, and gender affect wages and employment in modern labor markets? - What is the labor market impact of policy interventions such as minimum wages, employment and training policies, and family policies? - Recent methodological advances in empirical methods and models of the labor market in the presence of imperfect competition

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443297656
Publisher:	North Holland
Publication date:	12/05/2024
Series:	Handbooks in Economics , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1000
File size:	38 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Christian Dustmann is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), Honorary Professor at Humboldt University Berlin, Director of the Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin), and founding Director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). He is a leading labor economist who has worked on topics such as migration, the economics of education, the economics of crime, social networks, technology, income mobility, wage dynamics, and inequality. Professor Dustmann has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. He served as President of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) (2017-2021), which he co-founded. He has also served as President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE). Professor Dustmann is an elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). In 2020, Professor Dustmann received the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences for scientific contributions to socially important challenges. Dustmann is the first economist honored with this prize. In 2023, he received the Reimar Luest Prize for International Science and Cultural Communication, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. In the 2019 German Economic Association ranking, he was first among economists in German-speaking countries and German economists abroad. He regularly advises government bodies, international organizations, and the media on policy issues.
Thomas Lemieux is a Professor at UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics. Prior to moving to UBC in 1999, Professor Lemieux held appointments at the Université de Montréal and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Society of Labor Economists, and the Econometric Society. Professor Lemieux is a past President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Canadian Economics Association, which awarded him the Rae Prize for outstanding research in 1998. He has served as co-editor major journals in economics, including the American Economic Review. Lemieux has written extensively on labour markets and earnings inequality in Canada, the United States and other countries. He has also made contributions to the methodology of empirical research in labour economics.

Table of Contents

1. Crime and the Labor MarketRandi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Paolo Pinotti2. Empirical Bayes Methods in Labor EconomicsChristopher Walters3. Families and the Labor MarketGordon Dahl and Katrine V. Løken4. ImmigrationChristian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg5. Instrumental Variables with Heterogeneous Treatment EffectsMagne Mogstad and Alexander Torgovitsky6. Job Search, UI and ALMPThomas Le Barbanchon, Johannes Schmieder and Andrea Weber7. Labor Force TransitionsRui Castro, Fabian Lange and Markus Poschke8. Short-term work policiesPierre Cahuc9. Minimum WagesArindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner10. Trade and the Labor MarketDavid Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Margaret R. Jones and Bradley Setzler11. Education, Skills and the Wage StructureDavid Deming and Mikko Silliman12. Compensating DifferencesAlexandre Mas13. Gender inequalitiesClaudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan and Barbara Petrongolo14. Labor Market ConcentrationIoana Marinescu and Jose Azar15. Race in the Labor MarketPatrick Bayer, Kerwin Charles and Ellora Derenoncourt16. Recent Advances in Personell EconomicsMitchell Hoffman, Kathryn Shaw and Christopher Stanton17. Technology, Automation, and the Labor MarketDaron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo18. UnionsSuresh Naidu, Benjamin Schoefer and Simon Jäger19. Wage Setting Power: Theory and EvidencePatrick Kline

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Everything you want to know about recent advances in labor economics