Accounting for worker well-being / edited by Solomon W. Polachek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polachek, S. W.

Series:

Research in labor economics ; v. 23.

Research in labor economics, 0147-9121 ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor economics.

Labor supply--United States.

Labor supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier JAI, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation, and macroeconomic labor policy. The volume provides answers to a number of important questions. For example, why do smaller, newer companies better match CEO pay to profits than old, established corporations? Which demographic groups are most prone to job losses? What does marital status have to do with the glass ceiling? Does retiring from work increase one's mental health? Does domestic violence drive women to work more? Do higher educational subsidies lead to more schooling than larger educational rates of return? In short, the volume addresses a number of important policy-related research issues on worker well-being facing labor economists today.

Contents:

Preface / Solomon W. Polachek

Output-based pay : incentives, retention or sorting? / Edward P. Lazear

A long-term view of health status, disabilities, mortality, and participation in the DI and SSI disability programs / Kalman Rupp, Paul S. Davies

AIDS and the market for nurses / David E. Kalist, Stephen J. Spurr

Bounding estimates of wage discrimination / Joseph G. Hirschberg, Daniel J. Slottje

Assortative mating or glass ceiling : under-representation of female workers among top earners / Elizabeth Becker, Cotton M. Lindsay

Is retirement depressing? : labor force inactivity and psychological well-being in later life / Kerwin Kofi Charles

Independent contractors and self-employment as systems of incentives and control : theory, empirics, and a survey of evidence / John Garen

The employment effects of domestic violence / Amy Farmer, Jill Tiefenthaler

Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and education / Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

Collective bargaining under complete information / Carlos Diaz-Moreno, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez

Active labour market policies and real-wage determination : Swedish evidence / Anders Forslund, Ann-Sofie Kolm

Job loss in the United States, 1981-2001 / Henry S. Farber.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

1-281-01588-1

9786611015886

0-08-047176-5

OCLC:

437177088