Volume 30
Jobs, Training, and Worker Well-being
Outline
This volume contains 10 new and innovative research articles of relevance to researchers and policy makers. Each chapter deals with an aspect of human welfare, and each is authored by an expert in the field. Of these, the first three investigate earnings distribution, the next four examine job remuneration, the next two explore discrimination, and the final chapter considers wage rigidities. Answers to a number of important questions are given. These questions include: What role does population heterogeneity play in shaping a country’s earnings distribution? Does more training really reduce wage inequality? How does growth in Chinese well-being compare to the growth in US well-being? What role do employees play in the way their jobs are designed? Does deferred compensation really motivate workers? To what extent do firms “fast-track” some employees for eventual executive positions? Are workers in the public sector better off than workers in the private sector? Does a firm’s gender composition affect its survival? Are current Equal Employment Opportunity Commission anti-discrimination laws the best way to combat discrimination, or are there better approaches? How does one determine the extent of wage rigidities in the labor market?
Check AccessChapters
- On the link between investment in on-the-job training and earnings dispersion: the case of France
- Employee training and wage dispersion: white- and blue-collar workers in Britain
- Income inequality, income mobility, and social welfare for urban and rural households of China and the United States
- Why are jobs designed the way they are?
- Is seniority-based pay used as a motivational device? Evidence from plant-level data
- The promotion dynamics of American executives
- Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction
- The survival and growth of establishments: does gender segregation matter?
- Futile and effective ways to combat wage discrimination
- Patterns of nominal and real wage rigidity
- Volume Details
- Editors Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
- Publication date 21 April 2010
- ISBN 978-1-84950-766-0
- ISSN 0147-9121
- Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
- doi 10.1108/rlec