50th celebratory volume /

This 50th Celebratory Research in Labor Economics volume contains ten original and innovative articles each written by stellar senior scholars in labor economics, including a Nobel Laureate. Each article deals with an aspect of worker well-being addressing questions such as: What can epidemiologists...

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Other Authors: Polachek, Solomon W., (Editor), Tatsiramos, Konstantinos, (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Series:Research in labor economics ; v. 50.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-9121202350
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ronald G. Ehrenberg
  • Chapter 1. The sam approach to epidemic models / Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R. Moen, and Christopher A Pissarides
  • Chapter 2. The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men / Joseph G. Altonji, John Eric Humphries, and Ling Zhong
  • Chapter 3. Compensating differentials for occupational health and safety risks: Implications of recent evidence / Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi
  • Chapter 4. The career evolution of the sex gap in wages: Discrimination vs. Human capital investment / David Neumark and Giannina Vaccaro
  • Chapter 5. Gender economics: Dead-ends and new opportunities / Shelly Lundberg
  • Chapter 6. Productivity and wages: What was the productivity-wage link in the digital revolution of the past and what might occur in the AI revolution of the future? / Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn Shaw, and James Jedras
  • Chapter 7. Agency, activism and the expansion of the regulatory state / Robert Topel
  • Chapter 8. Right-to-work laws, unionization, and wage setting / Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux, and Neil Lloyd
  • Chapter 9. The fall and rise of immigrant employment during the covid-19 pandemic / George J. Borjas and Hugh Cassidy
  • Chapter 10. Widows' time: Adjusting to loss / Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, and Monika Oczkowska.