Labor statistics measurement issues / edited by John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser, and Robert Topel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haltiwanger, John C.

Manser, Marilyn.

Topel, Robert H.

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 60.

NBER studies in income and wealth ; v. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor productivity--United States--Statistical methods--Congresses.

Labor productivity.

Labor supply--United States--Statistical methods--Congresses.

Labor supply.

Unemployed--United States--Congresses.

Unemployed.

Work measurement--United States--Congresses.

Work measurement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rapidly changing technology, the globalization of markets, and the declining role of unions are just some of the factors that have led to dramatic changes in working conditions in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the difficult measurement problems underlying analysis of the labor market. Labor Statistics Measurement Issues helps to fill this gap by exploring key theoretical and practical issues in the measurement of employment, wages, and workplace practices. Some of the chapters in this volume explore the conceptual issues of what is needed, what is known, or what can be learned from existing data, and what needs have not been met by available data sources. Others make innovative uses of existing data to analyze these topics. Also included are papers examining how answers to important questions are affected by alternative measures used and how these can be reconciled. This important and useful book will find a large audience among labor economists and consumers of labor statistics.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Prefatory Note

Introduction

1. Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses

2. Analytical Needs and Empirical Knowledge in Labor Economics

3. Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows

4. Unemployment and Labor Force Attachment: A Multistate Analysis of Nonemployment

5. Are Lifetime Jobs Disappearing? Job Duration in the United States, 1973-1 993

6. On Measuring the Impact of Ownership Change on Labor: Evidence from U.S. Food- Manufacturing Plant-Level Data

7. The CPS after the Redesign: Refocusing the Economic Lens

8. Divergent Trends in Alternative Wage Series

9. What Happens within Firms? A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Compensation Policies

10. Internal and External Labor Markets: An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

11. The Worker-Establishment Characteristics Database

12. A Needs Analysis of Training Data: What Do We Want, What Do We Have, Can We Ever Get It?

13. Employer-Provided Training, Wages, and Capital Investment

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

"National Bureau of Economic Research, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611223557

9781281223555

1281223557

9780226314594

0226314596

OCLC:

476228610