Transitions through the Labor Market

Outline

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. This volume contains seven original and innovative articles that analyze aspects of such labor market transitions. Questions answered include: How did hiring and firing decisions change for blacks and Hispanics relative to whites in the Great Recession? Can redesigning the minimum wage lead to more efficient employment transitions and greater social welfare? What are the factors leading a company to fast-track an employee? How does the number of layers in a company’s hierarchical structure affect one’s ability to be promoted? Do women gravitate to more socially caring occupations because they care more than men? Does gaming among youth increase math scores more form boys than girls? And, does good health impede one’s inclination to retire?

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Chapters

• Kenneth A. Couch, Robert Fairlie, Huanan Xu Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession
• Eliav Danziger, Leif Danziger The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
• Christian Belzil, Michael Bognanno, François Poinas Promotion Determinants in Corporate Hierarchies: An Examination of Fast Tracks and Functional Area
• Xin Jin Flattening Firms and Wage Distribution
• Julie L. Hotchkiss, Anil Rupasingha Wage Determination in Social Occupations: The Role of Individual Social Capital
• Yann Algan, Nicole M. Fortin Computer Gaming and the Gender Math Gap: Cross-Country Evidence among Teenagers
• Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier The Role of Health in Retirement

• Volume Details
• Editors Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
• Publication date 6 August 2018
• ISBN 978-1-78756-462-6
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec