Bøger i Research in Labor Economics serien

Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The papers in this volume are selected from the papers presented at a conference on Understanding Skills Obsolescence. They advance both the theoretical and empirical understanding of the causes and the effects of skills obsolescence.

The writings in this volume address various issues related to worker well-being, including employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation and macroeconomic labour policy.

Carries seven papers that analyze the effect of government and corporate actions on individuals' labor market behavior and seven others from a November 1996 conference at Cornell University discuss new empirical research on employer training.

Focuses on various aspects of labor markets and how these markets affect our well-being. This volume contains 11 chapters: three on labor supply, dealing with the aspects of the participation decision; two on human capital, the accumulation of worker skills; three on employee earnings; and three on the distribution of earnings throughout society.

Part of a series which focuses on research into labour economics, this volume explores such topics as growth and labour mobility, public policies and the working poor, the structure and consequences of eligibility rules for a social programme, and testing job search models.