| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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IZA Prize in Labor Economics series |
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IZA prize in labor economics series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Demand for Labor; Copyright; Award Statement of the IZA Prize Committee; Contents; I. Daniel S. Hamermesh: The Pioneer in Labor Demand Research; II. Aspects of Labor Demand; III. Labor Demand; 1. Labor Market Competition among Youths, White Women and Others; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Estimating Equations, Methods and Data; 1.3. Estimates of Elasticities of Complementarity and of Factor Prices; 1.4. The Effect of an Exogenous Increase in White Female Participation; 1.5. Conclusions; 2. Spectral Analysis of the Relation between Gross Employment Chan gesand Output Changes, 1958-1966 |
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2.1. Implications of Specific Training for Seasonal Changes in Employment2.2. Data and Method; 2.3. Comparisons of the Spectra; 2.4. Conclusions; 3. Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs; 3.1. The Conventional Wisdom and the Nature of Labor Costs; 3.2. Estimating Adjustment Paths Under Alternative Cost Structure; 3.3. Estimates for Individual Plants; 3.4. The Effects of Aggregation; 3.5. Conclusions and Implications; APPENDIX; 4. Labor Demand and the Source of Adjustment Costs; 4.1. History and Motivation; 4.2. Some New Data and their Characteristics |
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4.3. Employment Adjustment with Gross and Net Costs4.3.1. A Forward-Looking Model with Quadratic Costs; 4.3.2. A Model with Lumpy Costs; 4.4. Estimates of the Quadratic-Cost Model; 4.5. Estimates of the Fixed-Cost Model; 4.6. Conclusions and Implications; 5. Turnover and the Dynamics of Labor Demand; 5.1. Motivation; 5.2. Estimating Dynamic Labor Demand in the Presence of Quits; 5.3. Description of the Data; 5.4. Results; 5.5. Conclusions and Implications for Dynamic Labor Demand; 6. Job Turnover and Labor Turnover:A Taxonomy of Employment Dynamics; 6.1. Introduction |
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6.2. Alternative Concepts of Employment and Job Dynamics6.3. Estimates of the Component Flows of Workers and Jobs; 6.3.1. Job Flows and Flows of Workers; 6.3.2. Net Employment Changes and Flows of Workers; 6.3.3. Simultaneous Hiring and Firing; 6.4. Conclusions; Appendix; Definition of Variables; IV. Policy on the Demand Side; 7. Minimum Wages and the Demand for Labor; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. The Demand for Teen and Adult Labor; 7.3. The Minimum Wage and Factor Substitution; 7.4. The Net Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage and some Policy Simulations; 7.5. Conclusions and Implications |
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8. The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence From California8.1. Introduction; 8.2. California's Daily Overtime Law; 8.3. Theoretical Background; 8.4. Data; 8.5. Estimation Approach; 8.6. Basic Results; 8.7. Results with Control Variables; 8.8. Implications; 8.9. Conclusions; 9. The Timing of Labor Demand; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. The Regulation of Work Timing; 9.3. Data, Concepts and Descriptive Statistics; 9.3.1. Creating the Data Set; 9.3.2. Basic Facts about the Timing of Work; 9.3.3. The Composition of the Workforce by the Timing of Work |
| Summary |
A selection of Daniel Hamermesh's key papers on labour demand including: how firms adjust labor in response to large shocks, the theory and applications of labor demand dynamics, adjustments costs, how labour policy affects wages and employment, minimum wage, job displacement, and physical appearance and discrimination |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2017 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 24, 2017) |
| Subject |
Labor demand.
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Labor market.
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Labor supply.
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Employment (Economic theory)
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employing.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor supply
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Labor market
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Labor demand
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Arbeitsmarkttheorie
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Nachfrage
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Giulietti, Corrado, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191833847 |
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0191833843 |
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019250889X |
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9780192508898 |
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