Author : Giorgio Galeazzi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Comprises a collection of essays by various authors on the subject of labour demand and adjusted labour costs which were previously published between 1962 and 1990.
Author : Paola Rota
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
ISBN :
Author : Daniel S. Hamermesh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198791372
The book collects articles published by Daniel Hamermesh between 1969 and 2013 dealing with the general topic of the demand for labor. The first section presents empirical studies of basic issues in labor demand, including the extent to which different types of labor are substitutes, how firms' and workers' investments affect labor turnover, and how costs of adjusting employment affect the dynamics of employment and patterns of labor turnover. The second section examines the impacts of various labor-market policies, including minimum wages, penalty pay for using overtime hours or hours worked on weekends or nights, severance pay for displaced workers, and payroll taxes to finance unemployment insurance benefits. The final section deals with general questions of discrimination by employers along various dimensions, including looks, gender and ethnicity, in all cases focusing on the process of discrimination and the behavior that results. Throughout the focus is on the development of theoretically-based hypotheses and testing them using the most appropriate data, often data collected uniquely for the particular project.
Author : James J. Heckman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226322858
Law and Employment analyzes the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets and presents empirically grounded studies of the costs of regulation. Numerous labor regulations that were introduced or reformed in Latin America in the past thirty years have had important economic consequences. Nobel Prize-winning economist James J. Heckman and Carmen Pagés document the behavior of firms attempting to stay in business and be competitive while facing the high costs of complying with these labor laws. They challenge the prevailing view that labor market regulations affect only the distribution of labor incomes and have little or no impact on efficiency or the performance of labor markets. Using new micro-evidence, this volume shows that labor regulations reduce labor market turnover rates and flexibility, promote inequality, and discriminate against marginal workers. Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Trinidad, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis of Latin American economies against a range of European countries and the United States. The book breaks new ground by quantifying not only the cost of regulation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the OECD, but also the broader impact of this regulation.
Author : Nancy L. Stokey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691135053
In The Economics of Inaction, leading economist Nancy Stokey shows how the tools of stochastic control can be applied to dynamic problems of decision making under uncertainty when fixed costs are present. Stokey provides a self-contained, rigorous, and clear treatment of two types of models, impulse and instantaneous control. She presents the relevant results about Brownian motion and other diffusion processes, develops methods for analyzing each type of problem, and discusses applications to price setting, investment, and durable goods purchases."--Pub. desc.
Author : Pierre Cahuc
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262027704
The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional reference covering all aspects of labor economics, with substantial new material. This landmark graduate-level text combines depth and breadth of coverage with recent, cutting-edge work in all the major areas of modern labor economics. Its command of the literature and its coverage of the latest theoretical, methodological, and empirical developments make it also a valuable resource for practicing labor economists. This second edition has been substantially updated and augmented. It incorporates examples drawn from many countries, and it presents empirical methods using contributions that have proved to be milestones in labor economics. The data and codes of these research publications, as well as numerous tables and figures describing the functioning of labor markets, are all available on a dedicated website (www.labor-economics.org), along with slides that can be used as course aids and a discussion forum. This edition devotes more space to the analysis of public policy and the levers available to policy makers, with new chapters on such topics as discrimination, globalization, income redistribution, employment protection, and the minimum wage or labor market programs for the unemployed. Theories are explained on the basis of the simplest possible models, which are in turn related to empirical results. Mathematical appendixes provide a toolkit for understanding the models.
Author : Olivier Blanchard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262521550
This is the fifth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of EconomicResearch that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontiertheoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analyticaland empirical research in macroeconomics.Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer are both Professorsof Economics at MIT.Contributors: Ricardo Caballero, Guiseppe Bertola. Andrew Caplin, Robert Hall.Gur Ofer. Abram Bergson, Martin Weitzman. Francesco Giavazzi, Marco Pagano. Allan Drazen, MartinFeldstein. Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger. Katharine Abraham, Robert Townsend. Mark Bils. AndrewOswald, Gary Hansen. Robert Barro, Xavier Sala i Martin. William Brainard, Robert Lucas.
Author : Daniel S. Hamermesh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1996-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691025872
In this book Daniel Hamermesh provides the first comprehensive picture of the disparate field of labor demand. The author reviews both the static and dynamic theories of labor demand, and provides evaluative summaries of the available empirical research in these two subject areas. Moreover, he uses both theory and evidence to establish a generalized framework for analyzing the impact of policies such as minimum wages, payroll taxes, job- security measures, unemployment insurance, and others. Covering every aspect of labor demand, this book uses material from a wide range of countries.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Huw David Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521479479
Brings together leading researchers from the USA and Europe to examine the literature on the new macroeconomics.
