"The book collects articles published by Daniel Hamermesh between 1969 and 2013 dealing with the general topic of the 'demand for labor'. The first section presents empirical studies of basic issues in labor demand, including the extent to which different types of labor are substitutes, how...

Seit der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands sind eineinhalb Jahrzehnte vergangen. Die Hauptverantwortung für die schnelle und konsequente Privatisierung der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft wurde von der 1994 aufgelösten Treuhandanstalt getragen. Ihre Tätigkeit erscheint als Spiegel der Zeitgeschichte, in...

These studies are based on information on time use in nine countries. Such studies will become more common as more governments fund time-budget surveys and as economists realize the benefits of using this type of data. Each does something that either could not have been accomplished at all, or...

Beginning in 1965 Nobel Laureate Gary Becker realized that shadow prices, which reflect the value of one's time, may be at least as important as money prices. Implications of his resulting theory of time allocation were not tested until much later when governments began to collect extensive data...