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Up from the bottom rung.(American labor market)
PITY the poor labor economists. They build their careers studying one of the most complicated bazaars in the economic world--the marketplace for jobs. Not only that, but their labors have become even more high-stakes in recent decades, as an increasingly technological economy seems to be pushing more and more unskilled Americans into poverty. The popular magazine BusinessWeek poses the question this way: "What's happening in the world's richest, most powerful country when so many families seem to be struggling? And what can be done?"
BusinessWeek has a point. On the broadest level, the work of labor economists has a moral dimension. What would it say about the ...
- Labor Market Segmentation
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
...workers, and a secondary labor market with little job security...For women, the dual labor market model does not fit the data well. Mainstream labor economists have also sometimes modeled the labor market as consisting of two sectors...
- Hoover Fellow Edward Lazear Awarded Jacob Mincer Prize by Society of Labor...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 5, 2006 700+ words
...the 2006 Society of Labor Economists' Jacob Mincer Prize...society recognizes labor economists who have made contributions...that the Society of Labor Economists has honored these...strong in the areas of labor market analysis and the...
- U.S. economic mobility.(Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American...
- Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review DiNatale, Marisa October 1, 2002 700+ words
...in the New American Labor Market. By Annette Bernhardt...2001, 244 pp. Labor economists and public policy...cohort entered the labor market in the mid- 1960s...second entered the labor market during the late 1970s...
- Pension portability and labor market efficiency: a survey of the literature.
- Magazine article from: Industrial and Labor Relations Review Dorsey, Stuart January 1, 1995 700+ words
...implications for the labor market efficiency effects...auction model of the labor market, in which any shock...recent thinking by labor economists about wages, productivity...nonportable pensions in labor market contract models. Although...
- Some problems with value-of-life estimates based on labor market data.(Hedonic...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Forensic Economics Leigh, J. Paul Garcia, Jorge A. March 22, 2000 700+ words
...have relied heavily on labor market studies of compensating...as evidence that the labor market is generating compensating...share of jobs in the labor market but do appear for the...widely-studied by labor economists, in general, and...
- U.S. Economist Jacob Mincer To Receive IZA Prize In Labor Economics; 50,000...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 15, 2002 700+ words
...the most influential labor economists of modern time, has...scholar and pioneer in labor market research." Mincer...the breakthroughs of labor economists like Mincer as an...outstanding contributions to labor market research. The award...
- The moonlighting decision of unmarried men and women: family and labor market...
- Magazine article from: Atlantic Economic Journal Allen, W. David June 1, 1998 700+ words
...much interesting research by labor economists. Early theoretical work...empirically documented the role of labor market constraints, the fundamental...decision and the role of labor market constraints. Later sections...between those who face labor market constraints and ...
- Nearly One Million 'Middle-Skill' Job Openings Projected for Illinois by 2014;...
- Newspaper article from: Science Letter October 7, 2008 700+ words
...toward an "hourglass" labor market with a small number...share of the state's labor market, totaling nearly half...Community Survey and state labor market data from the Illinois...Middle-Skill Jobs - by labor economists Harry Holzer and Robert...
