Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 367 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511522062
Content:
The Economics of Earnings analyses the wages that people earn, the jobs they do, and the labour market laws and rules within which they operate. Moving away from the conventional emphasis on point-in-time one-period decisions, it stresses informed worker choice over the life-cycle - the human capital approach. Within this framework, the book synthesises research results so as to point the way to better labour market policies. Government policy is often directed towards labour market issues such as education subsidies, training programmes, health and safety laws, and employment protection laws. By using models based on informed worker choice - the supply side - this book will assist concerned individuals in government, industry and academic study to evaluate and improve labour market policies and practices
Content:
1. Introduction: the importance of life-cycle analysis -- 2. The life-cycle human capital model -- 3. Schooling -- 4. Post-school investments -- 5. Labour supply -- 6. Gender in the labour market -- 7. Compensating wage differentials and heterogeneous human capital -- 8. Information and wages -- 9. Payment systems and internal labour markets -- 10. Unionisation
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521364768
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521367288
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521364768
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511522062
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Author information:
Siebert, William S. 1944-
Author information:
Polachek, Solomon W. 1945-
