Although converging somewhat, men are still economically more successful than women. These stark economic differences prevail in the United States and in virtually all countries throughout the world. This volume contains a number of important new articles analyzing reasons for continuing gender...

How firms are structured, the management practices they develop, as well as the way in which workers and managers interact can have wider implications for both the performance of the firm and the well-being of its workers. This volume contains ten original and innovative articles that...

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

A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce. Thus, how a nation allocates resources to the physical health of its population is of vital importance in establishing the economic well-being of its citizens.This volume contains nine original and innovative...

This volume contains 13 new and important never before published chapters covering aspects of the employer-employee relationship. The volume is focused at the academic audience, but is also geared to government and business policy makers worldwide. The chapters use data from the US, Europe,...

Understanding the factors that affect how one transitions from school to the labor market and finally to retirement isimportant both to the individual and to the policy maker. This volume containsseven original and innovative articles that analyze aspects of such labormarket transitions....

Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender / Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann -- Ancestry versus ethnicity : the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States / Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo -- Ethnicity, assimilation, and harassment in the labor...

This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare. The research deals with earnings inequality, discrimination, the effects of migration, and economic policy. Answers to a number of policy related questions are given...

Selection into worst forms of child labor / Eric V. Edmonds -- Household poverty and child labor decisions in Malawi / Levison S. Chiwaula -- How much work is too much? : effects of child work hours on schooling -- the case of Egypt / Ragui Assaad, Deborah Levison and Hai-Anh Dang -- Lifetime...

This volume contains nine original innovative chapters on worker well-being. Three chapters are on time allocated to work and human capital acquisition, three on aspects of risk in the earnings process, two on migration, and finally one on how tax policies affect poverty. Questions answered...