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"The leading textbook on imperfect labor markets and the institutions that affect them-now completely updated and expanded"--

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Tito Boeri and Jan van Ours

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Boxes
Preface and Acknowledgments
Symbols and Acronyms
1 Overview
- 1.1 Why Study Labor Economics?
- 1.2 The Two Key Decisions
  - 1.2.1 The Labor Supply Decision
  - 1.2.2 The Labor Demand Decision
- 1.3 Labor Market Equilibrium
  - 1.3.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 1.3.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 1.4 Labor Market Institutions
  - 1.4.1 Why Do Labor Market Institutions Exist?
  - 1.4.2 Institutions Matter
- 1.5 Measures of Labor Market Outcomes
  - 1.5.1 Stock Measures
  - 1.5.2 Flow Measures
  - 1.5.3 Problems with Standard Measures of Labor Market Status
- 1.6 Documenting Reforms in Labor Market Institutions
- 1.7 Review Questions and Exercises
- 1.8 Technical Annex: Competitive Pressures and Institutions
  - 1.8.1 A Competitive Labor Market
  - 1.8.2 Labor Market Institutions
  - 1.8.3 The Wedge
  - 1.8.4 Product Market Competition and the Employment Bias of Institutions
- 2 Minimum Wages
  - 2.1 Cross-Country Comparisons
  - 2.2 Theory
    - 2.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
    - 2.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
  - 2.3 Empirical Evidence
    - 2.3.1 Studies Based on Firm-Level or Household Survey Data
    - 2.3.2 Studies Based on Natural Experiments
    - 2.3.3 Studies Based on Matched Employer-Employee Data
  - 2.4 Policy Issues
    - 2.4.1 Are Minimum Wages Effective in Reducing Poverty?
    - 2.4.2 Should There Be a Youth Minimum Wage?
  - 2.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
  - 2.6 The Future of the Minimum Wage
  - 2.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
  - 2.8 Review Questions and Exercises
  - 2.9 Technical Annex: Minimum Wage Revisited
    - 2.9.1 Minimum Wage and Monopsony
    - 2.9.2 Bargaining or Government Setting?
    - 2.9.3 Efficiency Wages and the Solow Condition
  - 3 Unions and Collective Bargaining
    - 3.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
      - 3.1.1 Union Density
      - 3.1.2 Coverage and Excess Coverage
      - 3.1.3 Centralization and Coordination
      - 3.1.4 The Extension of Collective Bargaining
      - 3.1.5 Strike Activity
    - 3.2 Theory
      - 3.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
      - 3.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
    - 3.3 Empirical Evidence
      - 3.3.1 Bargaining Coordination, Union Density, and Unemployment
      - 3.3.2 Effects of Unions on Wages
      - 3.3.3 Characteristics of the Collective Bargaining System
    - 3.4 Policy Issues
      - 3.4.1 Do Unions Increase Efficiency?
      - 3.4.2 Should Occupational Licensing Be Restricted?
    - 3.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
    - 3.6 The Future of Unions
    - 3.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
    - 3.8 Review Questions and Exercises
    - 3.9 Technical Annex: Unions Revisited
      - 3.9.1 How Strong Must Unions Be to Be Efficient?
      - 3.9.2 Deriving the Contract Curve
    - 4 Anti-Discrimination Legislation
      - 4.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
      - 4.2 Theory
        4.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        4.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
      - 4.3 Empirical Evidence
        4.3.1 Cross-Country Differences
        4.3.2 Discrimination in the Labor Market
      - 4.4 Policy Issues
        4.4.1 Should Applications Be Anonymized?
        4.4.2 Should Minority Quotas Be Introduced?
      - 4.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
      - 4.6 The Future of Anti-Discrimination Legislation
      - 4.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
      - 4.8 Review Questions and Exercises
      - 4.9 Technical Annex: Issues on Discrimination
        4.9.1 Prejudice in a Competitive Labor Market
        4.9.2 Monopsony and Gender Discrimination
        4.9.3 Unobserved Heterogeneity and Correspondence Studies
      - 5 Regulation of Working Hours
        5.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
        5.1.1 Legal Restrictions on Working Hours
        5.1.2 Regulations of Part-Time Employment
        5.1.3 Subsidized Short-Time Work
        5.2 Theory
        5.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        5.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
        5.3 Empirical Evidence
        5.3.1 Macro Facts about Working Hours
        5.3.2 Microeconomic Evidence on the Effects of Reductions in Working Hours
        5.4 Policy Issues
        5.4.1 Should Governments Regulate Working Hours?
        5.4.2 Should Governments Subsidize Short-Time Work?
        5.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
        5.6 The Future of Working Hours Regulations
        5.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
        5.8 Review Questions and Exercises
        5.9 Technical Annex: Intensive and Extensive Margins
        6 Early Retirement Plans
        6.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
        6.2 Theory
        6.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        6.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
        6.3 Empirical Evidence
        6.3.1 Macro Facts about Retirement
        6.3.2 Microeconomic Evidence on Push Factors
        6.3.3 Microeconomic Evidence on Pull Factors
        6.4 Policy Issues
        6.4.1 How Much Flexibility in Early Retirement?
        6.4.2 Should We Have Mandatory Retirement?
        6.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
        6.6 The Future of Early Retirement
        6.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
        6.8 Review Questions and Exercises
        6.9 Technical Annex: Optimal Retirement Age
        6.9.1 The Optimal Retirement Age
        6.9.2 Young and Older Workers: Crowding In or Out?
        7 Family Policies
        7.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
        7.1.1 Childcare
        7.1.2 Parental Leave
        7.2 Theory
        7.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        7.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
        7.3 Empirical Evidence
        7.3.1 Cross-Country Variation
        7.3.2 Microeconometric Evidence
        7.4 Policy Issues
        7.4.1 Should Paternity Leave Be Encouraged?
        7.4.2 How to Encourage Mothers with Young Children to Work?
        7.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
        7.6 The Future of Family Policies
        7.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
        7.8 Review Questions and Exercises
        7.9 Technical Annex: Family Policies and the Household
        7.9.1 Childcare Facilities
        7.9.2 The Surplus from Home Production
        7.9.3 The Unitary and Collective Models of the Household
        8 Education and Training
        8.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
        8.2 Theory
        8.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        8.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
        8.3 Empirical Evidence
        8.3.1 Cross-Country Comparison
        8.3.2 Estimating the Returns to Schooling
        8.3.3 On-the-Job Training
        8.4 Policy Issues
        8.4.1 Should Governments Subsidize In-Company Training?
        8.4.2 Should There Be Early School Tracking?
        8.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
        8.6 The Future of Education and Training
        8.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
        8.8 Review Questions and Exercises
        8.9 Technical Annex: Schooling and Training
        8.9.1 Optimal Years of Schooling
        8.9.2 Signaling
        8.9.3 Derivation of the Mincer Equation
        8.9.4 Who Pays for General Training?
        9 Migration Policies
        9.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
        9.2 Theory
        9.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        9.2.2 Skilled and Unskilled Migration
        9.2.3 Relocation of Native Workers, Firms, and Migrants
        9.3 An Imperfect Labor Market
        9.3.1 An Economy with Wage Rigidities
        9.3.2 Labor Market Externalities
        9.3.3 What Drives Migration Decisions?
        9.4 Empirical Evidence
        9.4.1 Macro Facts about Migration
        9.4.2 Microeconomic Evidence
        9.5 Policy Issues
        9.5.1 How to Compensate the Losers?
        9.5.2 How to Handle the Labor Market of Refugees?
        9.6 Interactions with Other Institutions
        9.7 The Future of Migration Policies
        9.8 Suggestions for Further Reading
        9.9 Review Questions and Exercises
        9.10 Technical Annex: Cost and Benefits of Migration
        9.10.1 The Net Gains from Migration
        9.10.2 Heterogeneous Labor and Wage Rigidities
        10 Employment Protection Legislation
        10.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
        10.2 Theory
        10.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        10.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
        10.3 Empirical Evidence
        10.3.1 Macro Facts
        10.3.2 Microeconomic Evidence
        10.4 Policy Issues
        10.4.1 What Is the Optimal Level of EPL?
        10.4.2 Should There Be a Graded Security Contract?
        10.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
        10.6 The Future of EPL
        10.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
        10.8 Review Questions and Exercises
        10.9 Technical Annex: The Political Economy of Two-Tier Reforms
        10.9.1 The Quest for Flexibility
        11 Regulations on Self-Employment
        11.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
        11.2 Theory
        11.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
        11.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
        11.3 Empirical Evidence
        11.3.1 Macro Facts
        11.3.2 Micro Evidence on the Two Faces of Self-Employment
        11.4 Policy Issues
        11.4.1 Should Self-Employment Be Promoted?
        11.4.2 Should Social Insurance Be Mandatory for the Self-Employed?
        11.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
        11.6 The Future of Self-Employment Regulations
        11.7 Suggestions for Further...

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Volkswirtschaft
Genre:	Importe , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780691206363
ISBN-10:	0691206368
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ours, Jan Van Boeri, Tito
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	261 x 185 x 48 mm
Von/Mit:	Jan Van Ours (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.01.2021
Gewicht:	1,451 kg