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by David Card, Orley Ashenfelter
HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4B
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Title page
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series
Copyright
Contributors to volume 4B
Chapter 9. Earnings, Consumption and Life Cycle Choices
1 Introduction
2 The impact of income changes on consumption: some theory
3 Modeling the income process
4 Using choices to learn about risk
5 Income processes, labor supply and mobility
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 10. Racial inequality in the 21st century: the declining significance of discrimination
1 Introduction
2 The declining significance of discrimination
3 Basic facts about racial differences in achievement before kids enter school
4 Interventions to foster human capital before children enter school
5 The racial achievement gap in kindergarten through 12th grade
6 The racial achievement gap in high school
7 Interventions to foster human capital in school-aged
8 Conclusion
Appendix Data description
References
Chapter 11. Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market
Introduction
1 The sources of imperfect competition
2 How much imperfect competition? the size of rents
3 Models of wage determination
4 Estimates of rent-splitting
5 So what?
6 Applications
7 Conclusion
Appendix A Estimating the size of rents from a search model
Appendix B A model with heterogeneous worker ability
Appendix C Results equating separation and recruitment elasticity
References
Chapter 12. Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings
1. Introduction
2. An overview of labor market trends
3. The canonical model
4. A ricardian model of the labor market
5. Comparative advantage and wages: an empirical approach
6. Concluding remarks
Data appendix
O*net
Theoretical appendix: uniqueness of equilibrium in proposition 5
References
Chapter 13. Institutional Reforms and Dualism in European Labor Markets
1 Introduction
2 INSTITUTIONS AND REFORMS
3 A simple model of labor reallocation and reforms
4 ARE WE LEARNING ENOUGH FROM THE REFORMS?
5 FINAL REMARKS
References
Chapter 14. Local Labor Markets
1 Introduction
2 Some important facts about local labor markets
3 Equilibrium in local labor markets
4 The determinants of productivity differences across local labor markets
5 Implications for policy
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 15. Human capital development before age five
1 Introduction
2 Conceptual framework
3 Methods
4 Empirical literature: evidence of long term consequences
5 Empirical literature: policy responses
6 Discussion and conclusions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
References
Chapter 16. Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
Introduction
1 Intergenerational correlations of earnings and education
2 Identifying the causal effects of parental education and earnings
3 Other family background characteristics
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 17. New Perspectives on Gender
1 Introduction
2 Gender differences in psychological attributes
3 Gender identity
4 Women’s well-being
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 18. Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
1 Introduction
2 The law
3 The economics of the employment relationship
4 The evidence
5 Discussion
References
Chapter 19. Human Resource Management and Productivity
1 Introduction
2 Some facts on hrm and productivity
3 The effects of hrm on productivity
4 Two perspectives on hrm and productivity: design and technology
5 Some determinants of hrm practices
6 Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 20. Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives
1 Introduction
2 Incentives in organizations
2.3 Some important but hard-to-answer questions
3 Hiring
3.3 Post-hiring matching—retention and displacement
3.4 Do hiring practices matter?
4 Conclusion
References
Subject index to volume 4b
Subject index to volume 4a
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HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4B
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David Card
Orley Ashenfelter
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