Demand for labor : the neglected side of the market / Daniel S. Hamermesh ; edited by Corrado Giulietti, Klaus F. Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamermesh, Daniel S., author.

Contributor:

Giulietti, Corrado, editor.

Zimmermann, Klaus F., editor.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

IZA prize in labor economics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor demand.

Physical Description:

xvi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The book collects articles published by Daniel Hamermesh between 1969 and 2013 dealing with the general topic of the 'demand for labor'. The first section presents empirical studies of basic issues in labor demand, including the extent to which different types of labor are substitutes, how firms' and workers' investments affect labor turnover, and how costs of adjusting employment affect the dynamics of employment and patterns of labor turnover. The second section examines the impacts of various labor-market policies, including minimum wages, penalty pay for using overtime hours or hours worked on weekends or nights, severance pay for displaced workers, and payroll taxes to finance unemployment insurance benefits. The final section deals with general questions of discrimination by employers along various dimensions, including looks, gender and ethnicity, in all cases focusing on the process of discrimination and the behavior that results. Throughout the focus is on the development of theoretically-based hypotheses and testing them using the most appropriate data, often data collected uniquely for the particular project."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-432) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780198791379

0198791372

OCLC:

955313424