Overview
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?
Full Product Details
Author: Solomon W. Polachek (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA) ,
Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Luxembourg, LISER and IZA)
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume: 46
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9781787564626
ISBN 10: 1787564622
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 August 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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.--Annotation (c)2018 (protoview.com)
Author Information
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).
