Research Catalog

Title

Jacob Mincer : a pioneer of modern labor economics / edited by Shoshana Grossbard.

Publication

New York, NY : Springer Science + Business Media, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana, 1948-

Description

xi, 197 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Mincer, Jacob, 1922-2006
• Mincer, Jacob, 1922-2006 > Bibliographie
• Économie du travail
• Labor economics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Some brief remarks on the life and work of Jacob Mincer / James J. Heckman -- 2. An interview with Jacob Mincer / Pedro Teixeira -- 3. Acceptance speech upon receiving with first IZA prize / Jacob Mincer -- 4. Working with Jacob Mincer : reminiscences of Columbia's labor workshop / Gary S. Becker -- 5. Labor economics Mincer-style : a personal reflection / Solomon W. Polachek -- 6. Remarks following the final session of the conference in his honor, held at Columbia University on July 15, 2002 / Jacob Mincer -- 7. The new home economics at Columbia and Chicago / Shoshana Grossbard -- 8. Technology and the labor market / Jacob Mincer -- 9. Proving mincer right : Mincer's overtaking point and the lifecycle earnings distribution / Solomon W. Polachek -- 10. Jacob Mincer, experience and the distribution of earnings / Barry R. Chiswick -- 11. The "Mincer equation" thirty years after schooling, experience, and earnings / Thomas Lemieux -- 12. Jacob Mincer and labor supply - before and aftermath / Reuben Gronau -- 13. Household production and health / Michael Grossman -- 14. Household production and children / Arleen A. Leibowitz.

ISBN

• 9780387291741 (alk. paper)
• 0387291741 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005932741

OCLC

• 70132445
• ocm70132445
• SCSB-5926522

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries