How do changes at home, in the labor market and on the job affect worker well-being? This volume of Research in Labor Economicscontains eight original and insightful articles answering this question. Seven deal with demographic and labor market change, and one deals with wage differences...

This volume investigates the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health, and the resulting labor market outcomes. Containing nine original and innovative articles, it is a fundamental text for anyone interested in labor economics.

This volume contains original research articles which analyze the linkages between education and skills and the causes and consequences of different types of skill mismatch. The volume yields new insights regarding overeducation, underskilling, graduate jobs, wages returns to skills, aggregate...

Front Cover -- Income Inequality around the World -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Preface -- A Comparison of Major World Inequality Data Sets: LIS, OECD, EU-SILC, WDI, and EHII -- The State of World Inequality Data -- Previous Assessments of Cross-Country Inequality...

This volume contains new and innovative research articles on issues related to gender convergence in the labor market. Topics include patterns in lifetime work, earnings and human capital investment, the gender wage gap, gender complementarities, career progression, the gender composition of top...

This volume puts the spotlight on worker well-being. It looks at key questions such as: 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...

In no economy do all employees fare equally. Some variation stems from innate worker heterogeneity, some from differential human capital investment, some from imperfect information, some from demand shocks, some from asymmetric technological change, and some from government policies.

Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, particularly in low and middle income economies. This volume sheds light on the incidence and persistence of informality and the role of institutions and government regulations, and offers...

Contains fresh knowledge to help understand the relationship between child labor and the transition between school and work. This title includes papers that offer insights and answers to issues such as: how to measure child labor; how child labor and schooling affect health; and, how children's...

Contains twelve papers contributing fresh research to important issues concerning worker welfare. This title offers answers to a number of policy related questions such as: Why are jobs designed the way they are? Does seniority-based pay provide a sufficient motivation for workers? What policies...