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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

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

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Winners of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics

Frontispiece

Award Statement of the IZA Prize Committee

I Daniel S. Hamermesh: The Pioneer in Labor Demand Research

Corrado Giulietti and Klaus F. Zimmermann

I Daniel S. Hamermesh: The Pioneer in Labor Demand Research

Corrado Giulietti and Klaus F. Zimmermann

II Aspects of Labor Demand

II Aspects of Labor Demand

Daniel S. Hamermesh

III Labor Demand

1 Labor Market Competition among Youths, White Women and Others

Daniel S. Hamermesh

2 Spectral Analysis of the Relation between Gross Employment Changes and Output Changes, 1958–1966

Daniel S. Hamermesh

3 Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs*

Daniel S. Hamermesh

4 Labor Demand and the Source of Adjustment Costs

Daniel S. Hamermesh

5 Turnover and the Dynamics of Labor Demand

Daniel S. Hamermesh

6 Job Turnover and Labor Turnover: A Taxonomy of Employment Dynamics

Daniel S. Hamermesh

IV Policy on the Demand Side

7 Minimum Wages and the Demand for Labor

Daniel S. Hamermesh

8 The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence From California

Daniel S. Hamermesh

9 The Timing of Labor Demand

Daniel S. Hamermesh

10 The Costs of Worker Displacement

Daniel S. Hamermesh

11 Policy Equilibria in a Federal System: The Effects of Higher Tax Ceilings for Unemployment Insurance

Daniel S. Hamermesh

V Discrimination: Preferences for People

12 Beauty and the Labor Market

Daniel S. Hamermesh

13 Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?

Daniel S. Hamermesh

14 Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers’ Looks and Lucre

Daniel S. Hamermesh

15 What is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association, 1935–2004

Daniel S. Hamermesh

16 Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation

Daniel S. Hamermesh

VI Where Has Research on Labor Demand Been? Where Is It Going?

VI Where Has Research on Labor Demand Been? Where Is It Going?

Daniel S. Hamermesh

End Matter

References

Index

About the Author…

…and the Editors