Labor Markets and Economic Development

Herausgeber: Kanbur, Ravi; Svejnar, Jan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the links between the formal and informal labor market in developing and transition economies, working towards an accurate understanding of labour markets and analyzing alternative policy proposals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780415777414
• ISBN-10: 0415777410
• Artikelnr.: 26488579

Autorenporträt

Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University Jan Svejnar is Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Labor Markets and Development: Overview Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar
Part I: Employment, Poverty and Labor Market Dynamics 2. Does Employment
Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction? Catalina Gutierrez,
Pierella Paci, Carlo Orecchia, and Pieter Serneels 3. Employment Elasticity
in Organized Manufacturing in India Dipak Mazumdar and Sandip Sarkar 4.
Wage Determination and Wage Inequality inside a Russian Firm in Late
Transition: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997-2002 Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut
Lehmann and Mark E. Schaffer 5. Education and Youth Unemployment in South
Africa David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt and Cecil Mlatsheni 6. Analysis of
Attrition Patterns in the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey, 2000-2002
Insan Tunali Part II: Formality, Informality and Labor Market Regulation 7.
Monopsonistic Competition in Formal and Informal Labor Markets Ted To 8.
Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing
Economy John Bennett and Saul Estrin 9. Multiple-Job-Holding in Tanzania
Theis Theisen 10. Regulation of Entry, Informality and Policy
Complementarities Mariano Bosch 11. Can Social Programs Reduce Productivity
and Growth? A Hypothesis for Mexico Santiago Levy 12. Minimum Wages in
Kenya Mabel Andalón and Carmen Pagés 13. Labour Market Flexibility:
Insurance Versus Efficiency and the Indian Experience Errol D'Souza 14.
Labor Productivity Growth, Informal Wage and Capital Mobility: A General
Equilibrium Analysis Sugata Marjit and Saibal Kar Part III Trade and Labor
15. Trade and Labor Standards: New Empirical Evidence Yiagadeesen Samy and
Vivek H. Dehejia 16. Ann Harrison and Jason Scorse Do Foreign-Owned Firms
Pay More? Evidence from the Indonesian Manufacturing Sector 17. Gender
Inequality in the Labor Market During Economic Transition: Changes in
India's Manufacturing Sector Nidhiya Menon and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Part IV Human Capital, Productivity and Gender 18. Multidimensional Human
Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana Niels-Hugo Blunch
19. Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in
Transition Johannes Gernandt and Friedhelm Pfeiffer 20. Child Work and
Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India Gautum Hazarika and Arjun S. Bedi
21. Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Sticky Doors? A Quantile Regression
Approach to Exploring Gender Wage Gaps in Sri Lanka Dileni Gunewardena,
Darshi Abeyrathna, Amalie Ellagala, Kamani Rajakaruna and Shobana Rajendran
et. al 22. Training and Enterprise Performance: Survey Evidence from
Transition Countries in Central and Eastern Europe Joe Colombano and Libor
Krkoska Skills 23. Exploring Gender Wage "Discrimination" in South Africa,
1995-2004: A Quantile Regression Approach Miracle Ntuli 24.The Determinants
of Female Labour Supply in Belarus Francesco Pastore and Alina
Verashchagina 25. Islands Through the Glass Ceiling? Evidence of Gender
Wage Gaps in Madagascar and Mauritius Christophe J. Nordman and
Francois-Charles Wolff