At Home and Abroad U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective / Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blau, Francine D.

Contributor:

Kahn, Lawrence M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--United States.

Labor policy.

Labor market--United States.

Labor market.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, the U.S.labor market performed differently than the labor markets of the world's other advanced industrialized societies.In the early 1970s, the United States had higher unemployment rates than its Western European counterparts.

Contents:

Contents ; About the Authors ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Labor-Market Performance of the United States in an International Context ; Chapter 2. Labor-Market Performance: How Does Labor-Market Performance in the United States Compare to That in Other Countries? ; Chapter 3. Labor-Market Institutions: How Do Labot-Market Institutions in the United States Compare to Those in Other Countries? ; Chapter 4. Detecting the Effect of Institutions on Labor-Market Performance: Conceptual Issues ; Chapter 5. Labor-Market Institutions and Unemployment: Macroeconomic Evidence

Chapter 6. Labor-Market Institutions, Relative Wages, and Employment: Microeconomic Evidence Chapter 7. Labor-Market Institutions and the Gender Pay Gap ; Chapter 8. Policy Implications and Future Research Directions ; Notes ; References ; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-304) and index.

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ISBN:

1-61044-067-6

OCLC:

907642645