Research in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics, 36) - Hardcover

Solomon W. Polachek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781903573 ISBN 13: 9781781903575

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

This volume contains eight new and innovative research articles relevant to researchers and policy makers. Each chapter deals with an aspect of human welfare and is authored by an expert in the field. One deals with how technological change affects the distribution of earnings, two deal with how workers advance through corporate hierarchy, four deal with how incentives motivate workers, and the final chapter deals with how one immigrant group is far more successful than even the native population. Among the questions answered are: What accounts for the relative rise in skilled worker salaries? Which workers advance more quickly up the corporate ladder? Are workers hired from outside the company as successful as internally promoted workers? Does performance-based pay affect worker absenteeism? Do retirement incentives to workers really help the firm? Do unexpected decreases in retirement income decrease retiree life satisfaction? Do more stringent divorce laws increase cohabitation? What causes immigrants to really succeed in their new country?

About this title

About the Author:

Solomon W. Polachek - IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
Konstantinos Tatsiramos - Binghamton University, SUNY, USA

Review:

This 36th volume of Research in Labor Economics explores perspectives and presents research on aspects of income distribution. They consider technological change and wage differentials in Europe, career and wage dynamics, the fast-track effect and position-specific promotion rates, the effect of variable pay schemes and absenteeism, adverse selection in an early retirement program, the mental cost of pension loss in Russia, incentivizing long-term cohabitating and marital unions, and the entrepreneurial success of Indians in the US, Canada, and the UK. The contributors are mostly economics professors from US schools, but also include a Finnish government official from the Economics Department, and professors from Japan, Cyprus and Scotland. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1781903573
• ISBN 13: 9781781903575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos