The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, Third Edition

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· 제목 : The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, Third Edition (Hardcover)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 경제경영 > 노동
· ISBN : 9780691206363
· 쪽수 : 736쪽
· 출판일 : 2021-01-26

List of Boxes
Preface and Acknowledgments
Symbols and Acronyms
1 Overview
- 1.1 Why Study Labor Economics?
- 1.2 The Two Key Decisions
  - 1.2.1 The Labor Supply Decision
  - 1.2.2 The Labor Demand Decision
- 1.3 Labor Market Equilibrium
  - 1.3.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 1.3.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 1.4 Labor Market Institutions
  - 1.4.1 Why Do Labor Market Institutions Exist?
  - 1.4.2 Institutions Matter
- 1.5 Measures of Labor Market Outcomes
  - 1.5.1 Stock Measures
  - 1.5.2 Flow Measures
  - 1.5.3 Problems with Standard Measures of Labor Market Status
- 1.6 Documenting Reforms in Labor Market Institutions
- 1.7 Review Questions and Exercises
- 1.8 Technical Annex: Competitive Pressures and Institutions
  - 1.8.1 A Competitive Labor Market
  - 1.8.2 Labor Market Institutions
  - 1.8.3 The Wedge
  - 1.8.4 Product Market Competition and the Employment Bias of Institutions
2 Minimum Wages
- 2.1 Cross-Country Comparisons
- 2.2 Theory
  - 2.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 2.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 2.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 2.3.1 Studies Based on Firm-Level or Household Survey Data
  - 2.3.2 Studies Based on Natural Experiments
  - 2.3.3 Studies Based on Matched Employer-Employee Data
- 2.4 Policy Issues
  - 2.4.1 Are Minimum Wages Effective in Reducing Poverty?
  - 2.4.2 Should There Be a Youth Minimum Wage?
- 2.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 2.6 The Future of the Minimum Wage
- 2.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 2.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 2.9 Technical Annex: Minimum Wage Revisited
  - 2.9.1 Minimum Wage and Monopsony
  - 2.9.2 Bargaining or Government Setting?
  - 2.9.3 Efficiency Wages and the Solow Condition
3 Unions and Collective Bargaining
- 3.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
  - 3.1.1 Union Density
  - 3.1.2 Coverage and Excess Coverage
  - 3.1.3 Centralization and Coordination
  - 3.1.4 The Extension of Collective Bargaining
  - 3.1.5 Strike Activity
- 3.2 Theory
  - 3.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 3.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 3.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 3.3.1 Bargaining Coordination, Union Density, and Unemployment
  - 3.3.2 Effects of Unions on Wages
  - 3.3.3 Characteristics of the Collective Bargaining System
- 3.4 Policy Issues
  - 3.4.1 Do Unions Increase Efficiency?
  - 3.4.2 Should Occupational Licensing Be Restricted?
- 3.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 3.6 The Future of Unions
- 3.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 3.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 3.9 Technical Annex: Unions Revisited
  - 3.9.1 How Strong Must Unions Be to Be Efficient?
  - 3.9.2 Deriving the Contract Curve
4 Anti-Discrimination Legislation
- 4.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 4.2 Theory
  - 4.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 4.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 4.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 4.3.1 Cross-Country Differences
  - 4.3.2 Discrimination in the Labor Market
- 4.4 Policy Issues
  - 4.4.1 Should Applications Be Anonymized?
  - 4.4.2 Should Minority Quotas Be Introduced?
- 4.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 4.6 The Future of Anti-Discrimination Legislation
- 4.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 4.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 4.9 Technical Annex: Issues on Discrimination
  - 4.9.1 Prejudice in a Competitive Labor Market
  - 4.9.2 Monopsony and Gender Discrimination
  - 4.9.3 Unobserved Heterogeneity and Correspondence Studies
5 Regulation of Working Hours
- 5.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
  - 5.1.1 Legal Restrictions on Working Hours
  - 5.1.2 Regulations of Part-Time Employment
  - 5.1.3 Subsidized Short-Time Work
- 5.2 Theory
  - 5.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 5.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 5.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 5.3.1 Macro Facts about Working Hours
  - 5.3.2 Microeconomic Evidence on the Effects of Reductions in Working Hours
- 5.4 Policy Issues
  - 5.4.1 Should Governments Regulate Working Hours?
  - 5.4.2 Should Governments Subsidize Short-Time Work?
- 5.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 5.6 The Future of Working Hours Regulations
- 5.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 5.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 5.9 Technical Annex: Intensive and Extensive Margins
6 Early Retirement Plans
- 6.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 6.2 Theory
  - 6.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 6.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 6.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 6.3.1 Macro Facts about Retirement
  - 6.3.2 Microeconomic Evidence on Push Factors
  - 6.3.3 Microeconomic Evidence on Pull Factors
- 6.4 Policy Issues
  - 6.4.1 How Much Flexibility in Early Retirement?
  - 6.4.2 Should We Have Mandatory Retirement?
- 6.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 6.6 The Future of Early Retirement
- 6.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 6.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 6.9 Technical Annex: Optimal Retirement Age
  - 6.9.1 The Optimal Retirement Age
  - 6.9.2 Young and Older Workers: Crowding In or Out?
7 Family Policies
- 7.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
  - 7.1.1 Childcare
  - 7.1.2 Parental Leave
- 7.2 Theory
  - 7.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 7.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 7.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 7.3.1 Cross-Country Variation
  - 7.3.2 Microeconometric Evidence
- 7.4 Policy Issues
  - 7.4.1 Should Paternity Leave Be Encouraged?
  - 7.4.2 How to Encourage Mothers with Young Children to Work?
- 7.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 7.6 The Future of Family Policies
- 7.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 7.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 7.9 Technical Annex: Family Policies and the Household
  - 7.9.1 Childcare Facilities
  - 7.9.2 The Surplus from Home Production
  - 7.9.3 The Unitary and Collective Models of the Household
8 Education and Training
- 8.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 8.2 Theory
  - 8.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 8.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 8.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 8.3.1 Cross-Country Comparison
  - 8.3.2 Estimating the Returns to Schooling
  - 8.3.3 On-the-Job Training
- 8.4 Policy Issues
  - 8.4.1 Should Governments Subsidize In-Company Training?
  - 8.4.2 Should There Be Early School Tracking?
- 8.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 8.6 The Future of Education and Training
- 8.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 8.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 8.9 Technical Annex: Schooling and Training
  - 8.9.1 Optimal Years of Schooling
  - 8.9.2 Signaling
  - 8.9.3 Derivation of the Mincer Equation
  - 8.9.4 Who Pays for General Training?
9 Migration Policies
- 9.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 9.2 Theory
  - 9.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 9.2.2 Skilled and Unskilled Migration
  - 9.2.3 Relocation of Native Workers, Firms, and Migrants
- 9.3 An Imperfect Labor Market
  - 9.3.1 An Economy with Wage Rigidities
  - 9.3.2 Labor Market Externalities
  - 9.3.3 What Drives Migration Decisions?
- 9.4 Empirical Evidence
  - 9.4.1 Macro Facts about Migration
  - 9.4.2 Microeconomic Evidence
- 9.5 Policy Issues
  - 9.5.1 How to Compensate the Losers?
  - 9.5.2 How to Handle the Labor Market of Refugees?
- 9.6 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 9.7 The Future of Migration Policies
- 9.8 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 9.9 Review Questions and Exercises
- 9.10 Technical Annex: Cost and Benefits of Migration
  - 9.10.1 The Net Gains from Migration
  - 9.10.2 Heterogeneous Labor and Wage Rigidities
10 Employment Protection Legislation
- 10.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 10.2 Theory
  - 10.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 10.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 10.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 10.3.1 Macro Facts
  - 10.3.2 Microeconomic Evidence
- 10.4 Policy Issues
  - 10.4.1 What Is the Optimal Level of EPL?
  - 10.4.2 Should There Be a Graded Security Contract?
- 10.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 10.6 The Future of EPL
- 10.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 10.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 10.9 Technical Annex: The Political Economy of Two-Tier Reforms
  - 10.9.1 The Quest for Flexibility
11 Regulations on Self-Employment
- 11.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 11.2 Theory
  - 11.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 11.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 11.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 11.3.1 Macro Facts
  - 11.3.2 Micro Evidence on the Two Faces of Self-Employment
- 11.4 Policy Issues
  - 11.4.1 Should Self-Employment Be Promoted?
  - 11.4.2 Should Social Insurance Be Mandatory for the Self-Employed?
- 11.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 11.6 The Future of Self-Employment Regulations
- 11.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 11.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 11.9 Technical Annex: The Choice between Self-Employment and Dependent Employment and Finance
  - 11.9.1 Self-Selection into Self-Employment
  - 11.9.2 Complementarity between Labor and Financial Frictions
12 Unemployment Benefits and Active Labor Market Policies
- 12.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 12.2 Theory
  - 12.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 12.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 12.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 12.3.1 Cross-Country Differences
  - 12.3.2 Effects of UB on Unemployment Duration
  - 12.3.3 Effect of UB on Post-Unemployment Outcomes
  - 12.3.4 ALMP Studies
- 12.4 Policy Issues
  - 12.4.1 Do We Need Activation Policies?
  - 12.4.2 Should the Generosity of Unemployment Benefits Vary over the Cycle?
- 12.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 12.6 The Future of UB and ALMP
- 12.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 12.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 12.9 Technical Annex: Job Search Theory
  - 12.9.1 Unemployment Benefits in a One-Sided Search Model
  - 12.9.2 Two-Sided Job Search and Matching
  - 12.9.3 Statistical Foundations of the Matching Function
  - 12.9.4 Activating Unemployed Workers
13 Health-Related Labor Policies
- 13.1 Cross-Country Comparisons
  - 13.1.1 Workplace Safety
  - 13.1.2 Disability and Absenteeism
- 13.2 Theory
  - 13.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 13.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 13.3 Empirical Evidence
  - 13.3.1 Workplace Accidents and Safety Policies
  - 13.3.2 Sickness and Disability
- 13.4 Policy Issues
  - 13.4.1 Do Workplace Safety Regulations Benefit Firms?
  - 13.4.2 Should Absenteeism Be Monitored More Strictly?
- 13.5 The Future of Health-Related Labor Policies
- 13.6 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 13.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 13.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 13.9 Technical Annex: Reporting Workplace Accidents
14 Payroll Taxes
- 14.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 14.2 Theory
  - 14.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 14.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
- 14.3 Empirical Evidence
- 14.4 Policy Issues
  - 14.4.1 How to Make Work Pay?
  - 14.4.2 How to Pay and Target Beneficiaries?
- 14.5 Interactions with Other Institutions
- 14.6 The Future of Payroll Taxes
- 14.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 14.8 Review Questions and Exercises
- 14.9 Technical Annex: Payroll Taxes
  - 14.9.1 A Perfect Labor Market
  - 14.9.2 An Imperfect Labor Market
References
Name Index
Subject Index