Publisher Summary This chapter discusses public-sector labor markets. One unique aspect
of public-sector labor markets is that the laws governing impasse resolution vary across …

In this paper we examine four alternative methods for estimating the extent of labor market
discrimination. All of the methods involve the decomposition of gross (unadjusted) wage …

The often used method for decomposing wage differentials into human capital and
discrimination components is reformulated so that both the disadvantage, or" cost," …

Standard chi-squared, X 2 or likelihood ratio, G 2, test statistics for logistic regression
analysis, involving a binary response variable, are adjusted to take account of the survey …

Evidence is accumulating which suggests that public employee pay levels may contain
substantial rent components. The purpose of this study is twofold: to relate the theories of …

La discriminación en el mercado laboral es un tema importante en la mayoría de los países
del mundo. En tal contexto, este trabajo usa datos representativos a nivel nacional de la …

More than 20 years after its publication, Gary Becker's The Economics o Discrimination
stands as the major neoclassical approach to the analyses o racial (religious, sexual) …

What would you do if, the very day you were hired, you knew you could be unemployed in as
little as two years? You'd seek opportunities in your current job to develop a portfolio of skills …

The aim of this book is to answer from an economics viewpoint such questions as why some
people go to college while others do not, and why the percentages of different types of …

This may be one of the most challenging and unpredictable period in history due to the
Russian–Ukrainian war, the pandemic, and upcoming changes at workplaces brought by …