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Labor in the new economy

Title: Labor in the new economy / edited by Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Michael J. Harper.
Author: Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (2007 : Bethesda, Md.)
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Description

xi, 507 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71

Uniform Title

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71.

Subjects

Labor market > United States > Congresses
Job security > United States > Congresses
Wage differentials > United States > Congresses

Note

Includes revised versions of the papers and discussions presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, held in Bethesda, Maryland, Nov. 16-17, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 ... [et al.] ; 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.

Call Number

JBE 10-2283

ISBN

9780226001432 (alk. paper)
0226001431 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2010012103

OCLC

569552461

Author

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (2007 : Bethesda, Md.)

Title

Labor in the new economy / edited by Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Michael J. Harper.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Series

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Abraham, Katharine G.

Spletzer, James.

Harper, Michael J.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Research Call Number

JBE 10-2283

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