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New Analyses in Worker Well-Being

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 comradery 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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New Analyses in Worker Well-Being

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 comradery 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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New Analyses in Worker Well-Being

New Analyses in Worker Well-Being

New Analyses in Worker Well-Being

New Analyses in Worker Well-Being

Overview

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 comradery 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?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783500567
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date: 11/28/2013
Series: Research in Labor Economics Series , #38
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.12(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Editorial Advisory Board ix

Preface xi

Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s Ernesto Aguayo-Tellez Jim Airola Chinhui Juhn Carolina Villegas-Sanchez 1

The Short-Term Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes Timothy J. Bartik Marta Lachowska 37

The Impact of Wage Dispersion on Labor Productivity: Evidence from Finnish Workers Laura Arranz-Aperte 77

Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring John G. Sessions Nikolaos Theodoropoulos 105

Are Dangerous Jobs Paid Better? European Evidence Nikolaos Georgantzis Efi Vasileiou 163

Involuntary Unemployment and Efficiency-Wage Competition Marco Guerrazzi 193

Playing Hard to Get: Theory and Evidence on Layoffs, Recalls, and Unemployment Núria Rodríguez-Planets 211

Economic and Health Implications of Long-Term Unemployment: Earnings, Disability Benefits, and Mortality Kenneth A. Couch Gayle L. Reznik Christopher R. Tamborini Howard M. Iams 259

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