Labor Statistics Measurement Issues (Volume 60) (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226314588 ISBN 13: 9780226314587

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

Rapidly changing technology, the globalization of markets, and the declining role of unions are just some of the factors that have led to dramatic changes in working conditions in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the difficult measurement problems underlying analysis of the labor market. Labor Statistics Measurement Issues helps to fill this gap by exploring key theoretical and practical issues in the measurement of employment, wages, and workplace practices.

Some of the chapters in this volume explore the conceptual issues of what is needed, what is known, or what can be learned from existing data, and what needs have not been met by available data sources. Others make innovative uses of existing data to analyze these topics. Also included are papers examining how answers to important questions are affected by alternative measures used and how these can be reconciled. This important and useful book will find a large audience among labor economists and consumers of labor statistics.

About this title

About the Author:

John Haltiwanger is a distinguished university professor of economics and the Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and a research associate of the NBER.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0226314588
• ISBN 13: 9780226314587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 485
• Editor: Haltiwanger John, Manser Marilyn E., Topel Robert H.