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This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation, and macroeconomic labor policy. The volume provides answers to a number of important questions. For example, why do smaller, newer companies better match CEO pay to profits than old, established corporations? Which demographic groups are most prone to job losses? What does marital status have to do with the glass ceiling? Does retiring from work increase one's mental health? Does domestic violence drive women to work more? Do higher educational subsidies lead to more schooling than larger educational rates of return? In short, the volume addresses a number of important policy-related research issues on worker well-being facing labor economists today.

Job satisfaction. --- Employees. --- Work --- Wages. --- Psychological aspects. --- Compensation --- Departmental salaries --- Earnings --- Pay --- Remuneration --- Salaries --- Wage-fund --- Wage rates --- Working class --- Work, Psychology of --- Laborers --- Personnel --- Workers --- Occupational satisfaction --- Work satisfaction --- Wages --- Income --- Labor costs --- Compensation management --- Cost and standard of living --- Prices --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management --- Quality of work life --- Satisfaction --- Job enrichment --- Labor market --- Social accounting --- Employee fringe benefits --- Women employees --- Labor policy --- E-books --- Labor --- State and labor --- Economic policy --- Female employees --- Women workers --- Working women --- Workingwomen --- Employees --- Benefits, Employee --- Benefits, Fringe --- Employee benefits --- Fringe benefits --- Non-wage payments --- Perks (Employee fringe benefits) --- Perquisites (Employee fringe benefits) --- Corporate social accounting --- Social auditing --- Socio-economic accounting --- Socioeconomic accounting --- Accounting --- National income --- Quality of life --- Social indicators --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Government policy --- Supply and demand --- Business & Economics --- Labour economics. --- Labor economics. --- Labor supply --- Management. --- Economics

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This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening of the family earnings distribution? To what extent does the decline in unionization widen the distribution of earnings? To what extent do computers expand the earnings distribution? To what extent does the Russian wage distribution change if one accounted for wage arrears? To what extent does business relocation bring about job creation and job destruction? To what extent does maternal education increase childrens education? To what extent do job skills matter for low-income workers? And finally, why do minimum wage increases often fail to lead to increases in unemployment? There are thirteen new and original chapters containing research on aspects of worker well-being. Each chapter is written by experts in the field.

Labor economics. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Labor economics --- Income distribution --- Wages --- Labor supply --- Work environment --- E-books --- Compensation --- Departmental salaries --- Earnings --- Pay --- Remuneration --- Salaries --- Wage-fund --- Wage rates --- Working class --- Income --- Labor costs --- Compensation management --- Cost and standard of living --- Prices --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income --- Economics --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Manpower policy --- Science --- Labour economics. --- General. --- Income distribution. --- Wages. --- Labor supply. --- Work environment.

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Understanding the factors that affect how one transitions from school to the labor market and finally to retirement isimportant both to the individual and to the policy maker. This volume containsseven original and innovative articles that analyze aspects of such labormarket transitions. Questions answered include: How did hiring and firingdecisions change for blacks and Hispanics relative to whites in the GreatRecession? Can redesigning the minimum wage lead to more efficient employmenttransitions and greater social welfare? What are the factors leading a companyto fast-track an employee? How does the number of layers in a companyshierarchical structure affect ones ability to be promoted? Do women gravitateto more socially caring occupations because they care more than men? Doesgaming among youth increase math scores more for boys than girls? And, doesgood health impede ones inclination to retire?

Labour market --- Labor market --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Supply and demand --- E-books --- Labor market. --- Employee selection. --- Retirees. --- Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Retirement Planning. --- Retirement. --- Dismissal of. --- Downsizing of organizations --- Dismissal of employees --- Employee dismissal --- Employees, Dismissal of --- Employment termination --- Firing of employees --- Notice of dismissal --- Termination of employment --- Personnel management --- Employees, Selection of --- Hiring of employees --- Personnel selection --- Selection of employees --- Selection of personnel --- Persons --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Hiring --- Selection and appointment