Contains thirteen chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. This work deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. It covers topics such as: job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance, and schooling.

This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening of the family earnings distribution? To what extent does the decline in unionization widen the distribution of earnings? To what extent do computers expand the earnings distribution? To what extent does the Russian wage distribution change if one accounted for wage arrears? To what extent does business relocation bring about job creation and job destruction? To what extent does maternal education increase childrens education? To what extent do job skills matter for low-income workers? And finally, why do minimum wage increases often fail to lead to increases in unemployment? There are thirteen new and original chapters containing research on aspects of worker well-being. Each chapter is written by experts in the field.

EARNINGS INEQUALITY AND MARKET WORK IN HUSBAND-WIFE FAMILIES EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS AND BUSINESS RELOCATION: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE NATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT TIME SERIES WHO PAYS FOR GENERAL TRAINING IN PRIVATE SECTOR BRITAIN? WAGE ARREARS AND INEQUALITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF PAY: LESSONS FROM RUSSIA COMPUTERS AND THE WAGE STRUCTURE THE INFLUENCE OF STOCKS AND FLOWS ON MIGRANTS
LOCATION CHOICES WAGE AND JOB DYNAMICS AFTER WELFARE REFORM: THE IMPORTANCE OF JOB SKILLS FIRMS, INDUSTRIES, AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: AN ANALYSIS USING EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA BARGAINING AND ARBITRATION WITH ASYMMETRIC UNCERTAINTY THE IMPACT OF DEUNIONISATION ON EARNINGS DISPERSION REVISITED MATERNAL EDUCATION AND CHILD SCHOOLING OUTCOMES IN NEPAL MINIMUM WAGE EFFECTS ON WAGES, EMPLOYMENT AND PRICES IN BRAZIL THE EMPLOYMENT-PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIP WITH EMPLOYMENT CRITERIA