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This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy. Topics include employee compensation, human capital investment, womens wages, unemployment, and the effects of government policies. Among the questions answered are: Does free-trade (particularly regarding NAFTA) affect womens wages relative to mens? Can guaranteeing college scholarships raise high school students grade-point averages? Does increasing wage dispersion within a plant induce workers to put out more effort; or does it decrease commradery among employees, thereby lowering productivity? Does deferring worker pay really affect productivity on the job? Do firms manipulate fringe benefits (job characteristics) to adequately compensate workers for dangerous jobs? Do business cycles influence the terms of effort-enhancing labor contracts? How can workers signal their potential quality when displaced by plant closings? How severe are the detrimental effects of long-term joblessness? And finally, how do changes in welfare laws affect recipients time allocation at home?

Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Job satisfaction. --- Wages. --- Employee motivation. --- Unemployment. --- Work environment. --- Labor supply. --- Income distribution. --- Labor policy. --- Labor --- State and labor --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Joblessness --- Motivation in industry --- Work motivation --- Compensation --- Departmental salaries --- Earnings --- Pay --- Remuneration --- Salaries --- Wage-fund --- Wage rates --- Working class --- Occupational satisfaction --- Work satisfaction --- Government policy --- Wages --- Economic policy --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Manpower policy --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Full employment policies --- Labor supply --- Right to labor --- Underemployment --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Industrial --- Goal setting in personnel management --- Income --- Labor costs --- Compensation management --- Cost and standard of living --- Prices --- Quality of work life --- Satisfaction --- Job enrichment --- Labor economics --- E-books --- Economics --- Economic sociology --- Labour economics. --- Economics. --- Labor economics. --- Labor.

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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

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Sociology of work --- Labour market

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This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare. The research deals with earnings inequality, discrimination, the effects of migration, and economic policy. Answers to a number of policy related questions are given including: Why are jobs designed the way they are? Does seniority-based pay provide a sufficient motivation for workers? Do sex-segregated firms grow more quickly than firms more equally divided by gender? What policies are effective in combating discrimination? Why is relative rural urban income inequality so much greater in China than the US? How does migrating from one region to another affect one's child's schooling decisions? Do higher migration levels affect native worker wages?

Labor supply. --- Discrimination in employment. --- Employees --- Income distribution. --- Labor policy. --- Training of.

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This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, retirement decisions, the demographic transition, time allocation, and child labor. Among the questions answered are: How important is incentive pay in increasing worker productivity? Does monitoring productivity affect a worker's earnings trajectory? How is the decision to retire different in two-earner families compared to one-earner families? How did the evolution of the family affect men's and women's proclivities to work? Do welfare subsidies encourage recipients to spend additional productive time with their children? Can property titles (land reform) affect child labor in less developed country settings?

Labor. --- Labor market. --- Labor economics. --- Well-being. --- Labor --- Social aspects.