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Understanding the factors that affect how
one transitions from school to the labor market and finally to retirement is
important both to the individual and to the policy maker. This volume contains
seven original and innovative articles that analyze aspects of such labor
market transitions. Questions answered include: How did hiring and firing
decisions change for blacks and Hispanics relative to whites in the Great
Recession? Can redesigning the minimum wage lead to more efficient employment
transitions and greater social welfare? What are the factors leading a company
to fast-track an employee? How does the number of layers in a company’s
hierarchical structure affect one’s ability to be promoted? Do women gravitate
to more socially caring occupations because they care more than men? Does
gaming among youth increase math scores more for boys than girls? And, does
good health impede one’s inclination to retire?
Price: $145.99
Pages: 320
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: Research in Labor Economics
Publication Date:
09 August 2018
ISBN: 9781787564626
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / Retirement Planning, Labour economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor, LAW / Labor & Employment
This volume brings together seven chapters by researchers from North America and France, who explore employment transitions. They address wage and employment transitions related to the entire labor market, including the labor market transitions of African Americans and Hispanics to understand whether minorities are the last hired during periods growth and the first fired during recessions, as well as how the graduated minimum wage can improve social welfare; promotion transitions within the corporate structure; gender in relation to math ability and occupational choice and social capital; and how health impairments affect the transition into retirement.
Solomon W. Polachek is a Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University), where he has taught since 1983. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University, and he has had post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, and visiting faculty appointments at the Catholic University of Leuven, Tel Aviv and Bar Ilan Universities, Princeton, and Kasetsart University.
Konstantinos Tatsiramos holds a Joint Professorship in Labour Economics at the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). His Ph.D. is from the European University Institute, and he has had academic positions at the University of Nottingham, the University of Leicester and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
Preface; Solomon W. Polachek and, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Chapter 1. Racial differences in labor market transitions and The Great Recession; Kenneth A. Couch, Robert Fairlie, and Huanan Xu
Chapter 2. The optimal graduated minimum wage and social welfare; Eliav Danziger and Leif Danziger
Chapter 3. Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies: An examination of fast tracks and functional area; Christian Belzil, Michael Bognanno, and François Poinas
Chapter 4. Flattening firms and wage distribution; Xin Jin
Chapter 5. Wage determination in social occupations: The role of individual social capital; Julie L. Hotchkiss and Anil Rupasingha
Chapter 6. Computer gaming and the gender math gap: Cross-country evidence among teenagers; Yann Algan and Nicole M. Fortin
Chapter 7. The role of health in retirement; Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier