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Who Loses in the Downturn?
Economic events such as the recent global economic crisis can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the individual and household levels. Identification of …
Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes
How immigrants and their descendants fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question. While differences among ethnicities have been …
Income Inequality Around the World
Research in Labor Economics 44 takes another in-depth and focussed look at Inequality. This time however it is tied in with well-being of the workforce. Research in Labor …
Transitions through the Labor Market
Understanding the factors that affect how one transitions from school to the labor market and finally to retirement is important both to the individual and to the policy maker. …
Factors Affecting Worker Well-Being
This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, retirement decisions, the …
Gender Convergence in the Labor Market
For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages and occupational structures have …
Workplace Productivity and Management Practices
How firms are structured, the management practices they develop, as well as the way in which workers and managers interact can have wider implications for both the performance of …
Inequality
Inequality has been rising in many countries over the last decades and the process seems to have accelerated with the Great Recession. Not only is income distribution more unequal …
Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence
Social protection systems are intended to support households in financial difficulties, a role that has been underlined during the recent Great Recession in many countries around …
Jobs, Training, and Worker Well-Being
This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare. The research deals with earnings inequality, …
Informal Employment in Emerging and Transition Economies
Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income economies. A large part of economic …
Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work
More than 190 million children under 15 are working in the world today. Academic and policy research on child labor and related questions about how children spend their time in low …