Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

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

Publication

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Abraham, Katharine G.
• Harper, Michael J.
• National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Spletzer, James.

Description

xi, 507 p.; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71

Uniform Title

• Studies in income and wealth ; v. 71.
• University press scholarship online.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

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 index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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, R. Jason Faberman, John C. Haltiwanger and Ian Rucker ; 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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

^^2010012103

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library