Updated Notes on the Interindustry Wage Structure
Updated Notes on the Interindustry Wage Structure

Author: Steven G. Allen

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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This paper documents and analyzes changes in the wage structure across manufacturing industries over the last one hundred years. Inter-industry differentials in wages are highly stable for production workers, but autocorrelation patterns for nonproduction workers are considerably weaker. Industry wage patterns are very similar for production and nonproduction workers today, but this has been true only since 1958. Dispersion of wages across industries has shown varying trends over the last one hundred years, but has never in this century been higher than it is today. The variables that are most strongly correlated with wage growth are productivity growth, rising union density, rising capital intensity, and profit growth.

Migration and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Germany
Migration and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Germany

Author: John Haisken-De New

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3642801420

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Although the issue of migration has received substantial attention in public debate in most countries of the West, only moderately satisfactory attention has been given in the economic literature. This book analyses the case of Germany from an economic point of view. It examines questions such as: Are there substantial negative side-effects of migration, faced by native workers, as sometimes publicly claimed? Do highly skilled and unskilled natives experience different effects? Do certain foreigner national groups affect natives differently? How important is the level of education of these incoming foreigners in determining wage impacts on natives? Do native workers in some industries profit from migration, while others suffer? How is the industrial wage structure affected by migration, if at all?

Created Unequal
Created Unequal

Author: James K. Galbraith

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-12-15

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780226278797

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The strong U.S. economy in the late 1990s has validated the bold thesis of this book. Created Unequal shows that America's historically high inequality of pay and incomes is not the result of impersonal market forces such as technology or trade, but of bad economic policies over several decades and the poor performance they created. Featuring a new preface on the improvements since 1994, Created Unequal is a rousing book that reminds us we can reclaim our country through economic understanding, commonsense policy, and political action.

Ibss: Economics: 1995
Ibss: Economics: 1995

Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9780415152150

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The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institutions whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

The Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws
The Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws

Author: Peter Philips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1351891049

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Prevailing wage laws affecting the construction industry in the United States exist at the Federal and State levels. These laws require that construction workers employed by contractors on government works be paid at least the wage rates and fringe benefits 'prevailing' for similar work where government contract work is performed. The federal law (Davis-Bacon Act) was passed in 1931. By 1969 four fifth of States had enacted prevailing wage legislation. In the 1970s, facing fiscal crises, States considered repealing their laws in an effort to reduce construction costs, and since 1979 nine States have repealed their laws. These repeals at State level along with unsuccessful attempts to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act have pushed prevailing wages to the forefront of public policy and controversy. This book, for the first time, brings together scholarly research in the economics of prevailing wages placed in historical and institutional context.

The Wage Curve
The Wage Curve

Author: David G. Blanchflower

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780262023757

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The Wage Curve casts doubt on some of the most important ideas in macroeconomics, labor economics, and regional economics. According to macroeconomic orthodoxy, there is a relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of wages. According to orthodoxy in labor economics and regional economics an area's wage is positively related to the amount of joblessness in the area. The Wage Curve suggests that both these beliefs are incorrect. Blanchflower and Oswald argue that the stable relationship is a downward-sloping convex curve linking local unemployment and the level of pay. Their study, one of the most intensive in the history of social science, is based on random samples that provide computerized information on nearly four million people from sixteen countries. Throughout, the authors systematically present evidence and possible explanations for their empirical law of economics.

Labor Markets and Employment Relationships
Labor Markets and Employment Relationships

Author: Joyce Jacobsen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1405142308

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This innovative text grounds the economic analysis of labor markets and employment relationships in a unified theoretical treatment of labor exchange conditions. In addition to providing thorough coverage of standard topics including labor supply and demand, human capital theory, and compensating wage differentials, the text draws on game theory and the economics of information to study the implications of key departures from perfectly competitive labor market conditions. Analytical results are consistently applied to contemporary policy issues and empirical debates. Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the analysis of labor market phenomena Features graphical in-chapter analysis supplemented by technical material in appendices Incorporates numerous end-of-chapter questions that engage the analysis and anticipate subsequent results Includes innovative chapters on employee compensation methods, market segmentation, income inequality and labor market dynamics Balances theoretical, empirical and policy analysis

The Flow Analysis of Labour Markets
The Flow Analysis of Labour Markets

Author: Ronald Schettkat

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1996-08-08

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1134779429

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Well-functioning labour markets are a precondition for economic development. Here leading researchers present an overview of labour market workings providing new theoretical and empirical insights.