New Analyses of Worker Well-Being

Outline

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy. Topics include employee compensation, human capital investment, women’s wages, unemployment, and the effects of government policies. Among the questions answered are: Does free-trade (particularly regarding NAFTA) affect women’s wages relative to men’s? Can guaranteeing college scholarships raise high school students’ grade-point averages? Does increasing wage dispersion within a plant induce workers to put out more effort, or does it decrease commradery among employees, thereby lowering productivity? Does deferring worker pay really affect productivity on the job? Do firms manipulate fringe benefits (job characteristics) to adequately compensate workers for dangerous jobs? Do business cycles influence the terms of effort-enhancing labor contracts? How can workers signal their potential quality when displaced by plant closings? How severe are the detrimental effects of long-term joblessness? And finally, how do changes in welfare laws affect recipients’ time allocation at home?

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Chapters

• Ernesto Aguayo-Tellez, Jim Airola, Chinhui Juhn, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s
• Timothy J. Bartik, Marta Lachowska The Short-Term Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes
• Laura Arranz-Aperte The Impact of Wage Dispersion on Labor Productivity: Evidence from Finnish workers
• John G. Sessions, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring
• Nikolaos Georgantzis, Efi Vasileiou Are Dangerous Jobs Paid Better? European Evidence
• Marco Guerrazzi Involuntary Unemployment and Efficiency-Wage Competition
• Núria Rodríguez-Planas Playing Hard to Get: Theory and Evidence on Layoffs, Recalls, and Unemployment
• Kenneth A. Couch, Gayle L. Reznik, Christopher R. Tamborini, Howard M. Iams Economic and Health Implications of Long-Term Unemployment: Earnings, Disability Benefits, and Mortality

• Volume Details
• Editors Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
• Publication date 11 August 2014
• ISBN 978-1-78350-056-7
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec