Format:
Online-Ressource (XV, 324 S.)
Edition:
1. ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781784411497
Series Statement:
Research in labor economics v. 40
Content:
This volume puts the spotlight on worker well-being. It looks at key questions such as: How important is incentive pay in increasing worker productivity? Does monitoring productivity affect a worker's earnings trajectory? How is the decision to retire different in two-earner families compared to one-earner families?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Enth. 8 Beitr
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Front Cover; Factors Affecting Worker Well-Being: The Impact of Change in the Labor Market; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Preface; Explaining the Revolution in U.S. Fertility, Schooling, and Women's Work among Households Formed in 1875, 1900, and 1925; Introduction; The Historical Setting and Literature Review; Stagnant, then Growing Demand for Educated Workers; The Growth in Education; The Gender Wage Gap; The Increased Market Work of Wives; Mortality; Fertility; Female Empowerment and Increased Concern for Children
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Declining Economic Role of ChildrenModeling the Household; Determinants of Human Capital; Production of Schooling Human Capital; Preferences; Constraints; The Life Cycle and Time Use; Period and Mortality Structure; Mother's Time Allocation; Children's Time Budget; Sources and Uses of Money Income; Household Production; Optimization; The Quality and Quantity of Children; Discussion; Selected Comparative Statics; Infant Mortality; Youth Mortality; Costs of Children; Goods Inputs and Mother's Time in Household Production
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Assignment of Parameter and Target Values, and Calibration of the Initial BaselineGender Wage Ratio γt and Experience Impacts Emt and Eft; Determination of h^1875 and h0f1875; Narrowing of Gender Wage Gap Due to Changes in Experience; Schooling Target h^1950, as Implied by Micro Evidence on the Gender Wage Gap; Unskilled Human Capital h0f1950; Targeted Schooling Human Capital and Role of Education in Growth Accounting; Human Capital Productivity Parameters, Inputs, and Role of Curriculum; Returns to Scale in Human Capital Production; Schooling Inputs: Expenditures and Time
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Increase in h^t between 1850 and 1875 Birth CohortsEmpirical Increase in h^t with Implications for Increase in bt; Cohort Income Change and the Wage Per Unit of Human Capital; Market-Oriented Work of Wives; Mortality; Fertility Targets; Mother's Time Allocation to Child Quantity; Relative Wage of Dependent Children; Other Parameters; Missing the Targets: Income and Schooling Costs; Mortality Decline; Experiment 1: Growth of Public Schooling, and Changing Returns to Experience; The Initial Baseline; Experiment 1 Results; Experiment 2: Reduced Child Mortality
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Reaching the Targets: Increasing Disregard for the Potential Earnings of Dependent Children, and Greater Child ConsumptionQuantity and Quality of Children; Child Labor Restrictions and Compulsory Schooling Laws Reduce Tt; Falling μt, Markets and Norms; Mother's Time Devoted to Household Production; Discussion; Extensions Yielding Similar Implications; Greater Power of Wives; Greater Love of Children?; Other Possibilities; Morbidity; Skill Premiums and Skill-Biased Technological Change; Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix A: Proofs of Propositions 1 and 2
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Appendix B: Goods and Time Inputs
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Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784411503
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Factors affecting worker well-being Bingley [u.a.] : Emerald, 2014 ISBN 9781784411503
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1108/S0147-9121201440
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Author information:
Polachek, Solomon W. 1945-
Author information:
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos 1974-
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