How do changes at home, in the labor market and on the job affect worker well-being? This volume of Research in Labor Economicscontains eight original and insightful articles answering this question. Seven deal with demographic and labor market change, and one deals with wage differences...

Contains fresh knowledge to help understand the relationship between child labor and the transition between school and work. This title includes papers that offer insights and answers to issues such as: how to measure child labor; how child labor and schooling affect health; and, how children's...

Contains twelve papers contributing fresh research to important issues concerning worker welfare. This title offers answers to a number of policy related questions such as: Why are jobs designed the way they are? Does seniority-based pay provide a sufficient motivation for workers? What policies...

This volume contains original research articles which analyze the linkages between education and skills and the causes and consequences of different types of skill mismatch. The volume yields new insights regarding overeducation, underskilling, graduate jobs, wages returns to skills, aggregate...

This volume investigates the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health, and the resulting labor market outcomes. Containing nine original and innovative articles, it is a fundamental text for anyone interested in labor economics.

Front Cover -- Income Inequality around the World -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Preface -- A Comparison of Major World Inequality Data Sets: LIS, OECD, EU-SILC, WDI, and EHII -- The State of World Inequality Data -- Previous Assessments of Cross-Country Inequality...