Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

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