| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 507 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71 |
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Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71.
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| Contents |
Trends in compensation and job quality. What do we really know about changes in wage inequality? / Thomas Lemieux ; comment: Lawrence F. Katz -- Recent trends in compensation inequality / Brooks Pierce ; comment: Daniel S. Hamermesh -- Are the new jobs good jobs? / Katharine G. Abraham and James R. Spletzer ; comment: Erica L. Groshen -- New data for answering old questions regarding employee stock options / Kevin F. Hallock and Craig A. Olson ; comment: Chris Riddell -- Labor market dynamics, job security, and job attachment. Adjusted estimates of worker flows and job openings in JOLTS / Steven J. Davis [and others] ; comment: Robert E. Hall -- Job loss and the decline in job security in the United States / Henry S. Farber ; comment: Ann Huff Stevens -- What do we know about contracting out in the United States?: evidence from household and establishment surveys / Matthew Dey, Susan Houseman, and Anne Polivka ; comment: Daniel G. Sullivan -- Measuring tradable services and the task content of offshorable services jobs / J. Bradford Jensen and Lori G. Kletzer ; comment: Susan M. Collins -- Hours of work. Why do BLS hours series tell different stories about trends in hours worked? / Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart ; comment: Charles Brown -- The effects of changing demographics. The effect of population aging on the aggregate labor market / Bruce Fallick, Charles Fleischman and Jonathan Pingle ; comment: Gary Burtless -- Emerging labor market trends and workplace safety and health / Nicole Nestoriak and John Ruser ; comment: Jeff E. Biddle -- Measuring labor composition: a comparison of alternate methodologies / Cindy Zoghi ; comment: Stephanie Aaronson |
| Summary |
Economists examine a variety of important trends in the new economy, including inequality of earnings & other forms of compensation, job security, employer reliance on temporary & contract workers, hours of work, & workplace safety & health |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor market -- United States -- Congresses
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Wage differentials -- United States -- Congresses
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Job security -- United States -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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Job security
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Labor market
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Wage differentials
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abraham, Katharine G
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Spletzer, James
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Harper, Michael J
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National Bureau of Economic Research.
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| LC no. |
2010012103 |
| ISBN |
9780226001463 |
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0226001466 |
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