Evidence-based policy making in labor economics : the IZA world of labor guide 2017 / edited by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Olga K. Nottmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamermesh, Daniel S., editor.

Nottmeyer, Olga K., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy.

Labor economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores diverse aspects of labor economics, transitioning economies, and migration policies. It includes sections on program evaluation, behavioral and personnel economics, migration and ethnicity, labor markets and institutions, and challenges in emerging economies. Topics range from unemployment policies, job training programs, and parental leave impacts to corporate taxes, wage inequality, and the dynamics of migration and ethnicity. The authors aim to provide rigorous academic insights into the interplay between government policies, market mechanisms, and individual behaviors in labor markets. Geared toward scholars, policymakers, and practitioners, the book offers evidence-based approaches to understanding economic transitions and improving labor market outcomes. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Competing interests

Editorial board

Introduction

Section: Program evaluation

1 Job search requirements for older unemployed workers

2 Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: Opportunities and limitations

3 Parental leave and maternal labor supply

4 Financing high-potential entrepreneurship

5 The dynamics of training programs for the unemployed

6 Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity

7 How can temporary work agencies provide more training?

8 Public or private job placement services-Are private ones more effective?

9 What effect do vocational training vouchers have on the unemployed?

10 Do in-work benefits work for low-skilled workers?

11 How to minimize lock-in effects of programs for unemployed workers

Section II: Behavioral and personnel economics

12 Working-time autonomy as a management practice

13 Does government spending crowd out voluntary labor and donations?

14 The labor market consequences of impatience

15 Should firms allow workers to choose their own wage?

16 Do social interactions in the workplace lead to productivity spillover among co-workers?

17 Internal hiring or external recruitment?

18 Profit sharing: Consequences for workers

19 Incentives for prosocial activities

20 Are overhead costs a good guide for charitable giving?

21 Employee incentives: Bonuses or penalties?

22 Are happy workers more productive?

23 How do social networks affect labor markets?

24 The pros and cons of workplace tournaments

25 Can firms oversee more workers with fewermanagers?

Section III: Migration and ethnicity

26 Legalizing undocumented immigrants

27 Integrating refugees into labor markets

28 Where do immigrants retire to?.

29 How immigration affects investment and productivity in host and home countries

30 What are the consequences of regularizing undocumented immigrants?

31 Feminization of migration and trends in remittances

32 The effect of emigration on home-country political institutions

33 Ethnic networks and location choice of immigrants

34 How does migration affect child labor in sending countries?

35 Migration and female genital mutilation

36 Can market mechanisms solve the refugee crisis?

37 Ethnic enclaves and immigrant economic integration

38 The changing nature of citizenship legislation

39 Immigrants' occupational mobility-Down and back up again

Section IV: Labor markets and institutions

40 Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship

41 Do skills matter for wage inequality?

42 The effects of public sector employment on the economy

43 Income inequality and social origins

44 Do youths graduating in a recession incur permanent losses?

45 Effects of entering adulthood during a recession

46 Does broadband infrastructure boost employment?

47 Do global value chains create jobs?

48 Are part-time workers less productive and underpaid?

49 How is new technology changing job design?

50 The rise and fall of piecework

51 The effect of the internet on voting behavior

52 The effects of minimum wages on youth employment and income

53 Privatizing sick pay: Does it work?

54 Does employee ownership improve performance?

55 The economics of employment tribunals

56 How important is career information and advice?

57 Do product market reforms stimulate employment, investment, and innovation?

58 Efficiency wages: Variants and implications

59 Low-wage employment

60 Conditions for high-potential female entrepreneurship

Section V: Transition and emerging economies.

61 Do institutions matter for entrepreneurial development?

62 The mortality crisis in transition economies

63 Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries

64 Institutions and the support for market reforms

65 Foreign direct investment and employment in transition economies

66 Cash wage payments in transition economies:Consequences of envelope wages

67 Should agricultural employment in transition economies be encouraged?

68 Childcare expansion and mothers' employment in post-socialist countries

69 Family structure and children's educational attainment in transition economies

70 Female poverty and intrahousehold inequality in transition economies

71 Encouraging women's labor force participation in transition countries

72 Does religiosity explain economic outcomes?

73 Upgrading technology in Central and Eastern European economies

74 Wage coordination in new and old EU member states

75 The effects of privatization on exports and jobs

Section VI: Development

76 Does unemployment insurance offer incentives to take jobs in the formal sector?

77 Employment and rebellion in conflicted and fragile states

78 Do economic reforms hurt or help the informal labor market?

79 Trade liberalization and poverty reduction

80 Access to public transport and labor informality

81 Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs?

82 Do payroll tax cuts boost formal jobs in developing countries?

83 What can be expected from productive inclusion programs?

84 Can cash transfers reduce child labor?

85 Can higher education reduce inequality in developingcountries?

86 How do adult returns to schooling affect children's enrollment?

87 Are apprenticeships beneficia lin sub-Saharan Africa?

Section VII: Environment

88 Impacts of regulation on eco-innovation and job creation.

89 Climate change, natural disasters, and migration

Section VIII: Education and human capital

90 How manipulating test scores affects school accountability and student achievement

91 Can universal preschool increase labor supply of mothers?

92 Income contingent loans in higher education financing

93 Age at school entry: How old is old enough?

94 For long-term economic development, only skills matter

95 How effective is compulsory schooling as a policy instrument?

96 Skills or jobs-Which comes first?

97 Do schooling reforms also improve long-term health?

98 University autonomy: Improving educational output

99 Parental employment and children's academic achievement

100 What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy?

Section IX: Demography, family, and gender

101 The relationship between recessions and health

102 Gender differences in risk attitudes

103 Should common law marriage be abolished?

104 Is maternal employment related to childhood obesity?

105 Gender wage discrimination

106 Disability and labor market outcomes

107 Female education and its impact on fertility

108 The effects of recessions on family formation

109 Gender differences in competitiveness

110 The economics of mental health

111 Gender differences in wages and leadership

112 Do child care policies increase maternal labor supply?

113 Women's labor force participation

114 How does grandparent childcare affect labor supply?

Section X: Data and methods

115 Using instrumental variables to establish causality

116 Measuring entrepreneurship: Type, motivation, and growth

117 Meta-regression analysis: Producing credible estimates from diverse evidence

118 Identifying and measuring economic discrimination

119 Disentangling policy effects into causal channels.

120 Why do we need longitudinal survey data?

121 Maximum likelihood and economic modeling

122 Can "happiness data" help evaluate economic policies?

123 Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation

124 Gravity models: A tool for migration analysis

125 Performance measures and worker productivity

126 Using linear regression to establish empirical relationships

127 Can lab experiments help design personnel policies?

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

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ISBN:

1-4729-5071-2

OCLC:

1002700455