Jobs, training, and worker well-being / edited by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polachek, S. W.

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos.

Series:

Research in labor economics ; v. 30

Research in labor economics, 0147-9121 ; v. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply.

Discrimination in employment.

Employees--Training of.

Employees.

Income distribution.

Labor policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare. The research deals with earnings inequality, discrimination, the effects of migration, and economic policy. Answers to a number of policy related questions are given including: Why are jobs designed the way they are? Does seniority-based pay provide a sufficient motivation for workers? Do sex-segregated firms grow more quickly than firms more equally divided by gender? What policies are effective in combating discrimination? Why is relative rural urban income inequality so much greater in China than the US? How does migrating from one region to another affect one's child's schooling decisions? Do higher migration levels affect native worker wages?

Contents:

Preface / Solomon W. Polachek and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

Chapter 1. On the link between investment in on-the-job training and earnings dispersion: the case of France / Audrey Dumas, Said Hanchane, Jacques Silber

Chapter 2. Employee training and wage dispersion: white- and blue-collar workers in Britain / Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen Mumford

Chapter 3. Income inequality, income mobility, and social welfare for urban and rural households of China and the United States / Niny Khor and John Pencavel

Chapter 4. Why are jobs designed the way they are? / Michael Gibbs, Alec Levenson, and Cindy Zoghi

Chapter 5. Is seniority-based pay used as a motivational device? evidence from plant-level data / Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez, Maia Güell

Chapter 6. The promotion dynamics of American executives / Christian Belzil, Michael Bognanno

Chapter 7. Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction / Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, and Rainer Winkleman

Chapter 8. The survival and growth of establishments: does gender segregation matter? / Helena Persson and Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist

Chapter 9. Futile and effective ways to combat wage discrimination / Yuval Shilony and Yossi Tobol

Chapter 10. Patterns of nominal and real wage rigidity / Louis N. Christofides and Paris Nearchou .

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612552694

9781282552692

1282552694

9781849507677

1849507678

OCLC:

630542719