Handbook of Labor Economics

by Orley Ashenfelter (Editor), David Card (Editor)

Overview

Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this Handbook were published. The subject matter of labor economics continues to have at its core an attempt to systematically find empirical analyses that are consistent with a systematic and parsimonious theoretical understanding of the diverse phenomenon that make up the labor market. As before, many of these analyses are provocative and controversial because they are so directly relevant to both public policy and private decision making. In many ways the modern development in the field of labor economics continues to set the standards for the best work in applied economics.This volume of the Handbook has a notable representation of authors - and topics of importance - from throughout the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080544182
Publisher:	North Holland
Publication date:	11/18/1999
Series:	Handbooks in Economics , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	930
File size:	29 MB
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Table of Contents

Part 8: The Demand Side. 32. Minimum wages, employment, and the distribution of income (C. Brown). 33. Firm size and wages (W. Oi, T.L. Idson). 34. The labor market implications of international trade (G. Johnson, F. Stafford). Part 9: Looking Within Firms. 35. Individual employment contracts (J.M. Malcomson). 36. Careers in organizations: theory and evidence (R. Gibbons, M. Waldman). 37. Mobility and stability: the dynamics of job change in labor markets (H.S. Farber). 38. Executive compensation (K.J. Murphy). Part 10: Interactions Between Demand and Supply. 39. New developments in models of search in the labor market (D.T. Mortensen, C.A. Pissarides). 40. The analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data (J. Abowd, F. Kramarz). 41. Gross job flows (S.J. Davis, J. Haltiwanger). Part 11: Emergent Labor Markets. 42. Labor markets in the transitional central and east european economies (J. Svejnar). 43. Labor markets in developing countries (J.R. Behrman).

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Leading economists summarize new research on the ways workers shape and are shaped by labor markets

Editorial Reviews

"Labor economics" has continued to expand both in the extent and depth of coverage in recent years. Volume 4 of the Handbook has succeeded in not only updating coverage in many areas, but in synthesizing studies and approaches in ways that contribute importantly to the field. Economists with interests in many areas, ranging from field experiments to gender to early-life human capital investments, will benefit from the excellent chapters in this volume." —Jere R. Behrman, University of Pennsylvania

"Volume 4 very nicely illustrates several important trends in labor economics: increased concern about proper research design, more contact with those in other social sciences, greater reliance on data collected by those conducting the research, and (in some areas) more productive interplay between theory and data. The authors have themselves been major contributors to these developments; they combine a participant's enthusiasm with a detached perspective on the challenges and gaps that remain." —Charles C. Brown, University of Michigan

"The entries in the Handbook of Labor Economics update, deepen, and broaden the analyses contained in earlier volumes. The first-rate papers here address important problems in labor economics, often from new perspectives. As is the case with Volumes 1-3, many of the papers in volume 4 are "must-reads" and sure to make it onto graduate reading lists." —Henry Farber, Princeton University

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