Labor in the new economy / edited by Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Michael J. Harper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (2007 : Bethesda, Md.)

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Contributor:

Abraham, Katharine G.

Spletzer, James.

Harper, Michael J.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71.

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--United States--Congresses.

Labor market.

Wage differentials--United States--Congresses.

Wage differentials.

Job security--United States--Congresses.

Job security.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Contents:

Trends in compensation and job quality. What do we really know about changes in wage inequality? / Thomas Lemieux ; comment: Lawrence F. Katz

Recent trends in compensation inequality / Brooks Pierce ; comment: Daniel S. Hamermesh

Are the new jobs good jobs? / Katharine G. Abraham and James R. Spletzer ; comment: Erica L. Groshen

New data for answering old questions regarding employee stock options / Kevin F. Hallock and Craig A. Olson ; comment: Chris Riddell

Labor market dynamics, job security, and job attachment. Adjusted estimates of worker flows and job openings in JOLTS / Steven J. Davis ... [et al.] ; comment: Robert E. Hall

Job loss and the decline in job security in the United States / Henry S. Farber ; comment: Ann Huff Stevens

What do we know about contracting out in the United States?: evidence from household and establishment surveys / Matthew Dey, Susan Houseman, and Anne Polivka ; comment: Daniel G. Sullivan

Measuring tradable services and the task content of offshorable services jobs / J. Bradford Jensen and Lori G. Kletzer ; comment: Susan M. Collins

Hours of work. Why do BLS hours series tell different stories about trends in hours worked? / Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart ; comment: Charles Brown

The effects of changing demographics. The effect of population aging on the aggregate labor market / Bruce Fallick, Charles Fleischman and Jonathan Pingle ; comment: Gary Burtless

Emerging labor market trends and workplace safety and health / Nicole Nestoriak and John Ruser ; comment: Jeff E. Biddle

Measuring labor composition: a comparison of alternate methodologies / Cindy Zoghi ; comment: Stephanie Aaronson.

Notes:

Includes revised versions of the papers and discussions presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, held in Bethesda, Maryland, Nov. 16-17, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780226001432

0226001431

OCLC:

569552461