Author: Barbara F. Reskin
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781439901595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A controversial interpretation of women's dramatic inroads into several male occupations.
Author: Taye Mengistae
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on observations of 1,170 full-time employees of private firms and public sector organizations drawn from a 1994 household survey, discusses whether higher wage rates in Ethiopia's public sector create a queue for public sector employment.
Author: Andrew Weiss
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 140086206X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm employs and how well those workers perform on the job. Using straightforward examples, he demonstrates how efficiency-wage theory can explain labor market outcomes and guide government policy. There is a separate section of applications to less developed countries. "Efficiency-wage models represent one of the most important developments in economic theory of recent years. They have, at last, provided integrated explanations both of macroeconomic phenomena, such as unemployment and wage rigidity, and microeconomic phenomena, such as wage dispersion. Weiss--one of the pioneers of efficiency-wage theory--provides here a masterful survey, a lucid and systematic and yet critical account of this rapidly developing branch of economics. This book should be required reading in all courses in macroeconomics."--Joseph Stiglitz, Stanford University "Efficiency Wages should be on the bookshelf of all labor and macroeconomists."--Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University "A splendid monograph ... most readable... I will put it on my reading list."--Partha Dasgupta, Stanford University Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Raymond Robertson
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2009-07-17
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780821379554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the early 1990s, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world s economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies. The labor markets have adjusted to these major changes, and workers were required to adapt to them in one way or another. In 2006, the Social Protection Unit of the World Bank launched an important research program to understand the impact that these profound structural changes have had on workers in developing countries. 'Globalization, Wages, and the Quality of Jobs: Five Country Studies' presents the findings and insights of this important research program. In particular, the authors present the similar experiences of low-income countries with globalization and suggest that low-income countries working conditions have improved in the sectors exposed to globalization. However, 'Globalization, Wages, and the Quality of Jobs' also highlights concerns about the sustainability of these improvements and that the positive demonstration effects on the rest of the economy are unclear. The empirical literature that exists, although vast, does not lead to a consensus view on globalization s eventual impact on labor markets. Understanding the effects of globalization is crucial for governments concerned about employment, working conditions, and ultimately, poverty reduction. Beyond job creation, improving the quality of those jobs is an essential condition for achieving poverty reduction. 'Globalization, Wages, and the Quality of Jobs' adds to the existing literature in two ways. First, the authors provide a comprehensive literature review on the current wisdom on globalization and present a micro-based framework for analyzing globalization and working conditions in developing countries. Second, the authors apply this framework to five developing countries: Cambodia, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia, and Madagascar. This volume will be of interest to government policy makers, trade officials, and others working to expand the benefits of globalization to developing countries.
Author: George A. Akerlof
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-11-28
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521312844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors explore the reasons why involuntary unemployment happens when supply equals demand.
Author: Dipak Mazumdar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1351749668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2002: Analyzing labour market trends in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970, this volume employs data collected from the International Labor Organization (ILO), United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and World Bank (the RPED surveys). It examines the economics of the labour market against the presistent decline in real wages over some 20 years in some of these countries. Setting the African story against the background of wage-employment trends in other regions of the world, the author proceeds to examine the impact of this decline on the rural-urban earnings gap. The consequences of the declining wage levels on the lifetime earnings of workers and on trends in labour productivity are then discussed, followed by an analysis of the employment and wage structure in African manufacturing firms.
Author: Gilles Saint-Paul
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780262193764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses theoretical models to analyse the macroeconomic implications of the dual labour market. Includes an introduction to the techniques of dynamic programming and the matching function.
Author: Dale Belman
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Published: 2014-07-07
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0880994568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Belman and Wolfson perform a meta-analysis on scores of published studies on the effects of the minimum wage to determine its impacts on employment, wages, poverty, and more.