Demand for Labor: The Neglected Side of the Market
Daniel S. Hamermesh and Corrado Giulietti
Abstract
The book collects essays that revolve around the general topic of employers’ demand for labour. The focus is on labour differentiated by hours and workers, by hires, fires, quits and promotions. Throughout the emphasis is on the underlying patters that generate behaviour, including the nature of the costs of adjusting employment and hours, the extent to which different types of workers can be substituted for one another, the role of discrimination in altering employers’ behaviour and workers’ returns, and the temporal patterns of all these outcomes. The essays are generally empirical, based on ... More
The book collects essays that revolve around the general topic of employers’ demand for labour. The focus is on labour differentiated by hours and workers, by hires, fires, quits and promotions. Throughout the emphasis is on the underlying patters that generate behaviour, including the nature of the costs of adjusting employment and hours, the extent to which different types of workers can be substituted for one another, the role of discrimination in altering employers’ behaviour and workers’ returns, and the temporal patterns of all these outcomes. The essays are generally empirical, based on wide varieties of sets of data; but in every case the empirical research is linked closely to an underlying economic theory. As a result, the essays reflect Hamermesh’s 50-year interest in the nature of employers’ demand for workers in all its aspects.
Keywords:
Employment demand,
wages,
labor turnover,
discrimination,
beauty,
labor-market policy,
minimum wages,
horus of work
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198791379 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198791379.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Daniel S. Hamermesh, author
Corrado Giulietti, editor
Director of Research, IZA Bonn
More
Less