Demand for labor: the neglected side of the market
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| adam_text | Titel: Demand for labor
Autor: Hamermesh, Daniel S
Jahr: 2017
Contents
I Daniel S. Hamermesh:
The Pioneer in Labor Demand Research
Introduction by the Editors...........................................................................................1
II Aspects of Labor Demand
Introduction by the Author...........................................................................................11
III Labor Demand 17
1 Labor Market Competition among
Youths, White Women and Others 27
1.1. Introduction............................................................................................................27
1.2. Estimating Equations, Methods and Data...............................28
1.3. Estimates of Elasticities of Complementarity
and of Factor Prices.........................................................................................31
1.4. The Effect of an Exogenous Increase
in White Female Participation...............................................................33
1.5. Conclusions.............................................................................................................36
2 Spectral Analysis of the Relation between Cross
Employment Changes and Output Changes, 1958—1966... 39
2.1. Implications of Specific Training
for Seasonal Changes in Employment.........................................40
2.2. Data and Method...........................................................................................44
2.3. Comparisons of the Spectra..............................................................45
2.4. Conclusions.............................................................................................................49
3 Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs 53
3.1. The Conventional Wisdom and the Nature
of Labor Costs............................................................................................54
3.2. Estimating Adjustment Paths Under
Alternative Cost Structure 55
3.3. Estimates for Individual Plants 60
3.4. The Effects of Aggregation 69
3.5. Conclusions and Implications 72
4 Labor Demand and the Source of Adjustment Costs 77
4.1. History and Motivation............................................................... 78
4.2. Some New Data and their Characteristics 79
4.3. Employment Adjustment with Gross and Net Costs 81
4.3.1. A Forward-Looking Model
with Quadratic Costs................................................... 81
4.3.2. A Model with Lumpy Costs 84
4.4. Estimates of the Quadratic-Cost Model................................. 87
4.5. Estimates of the Fixed-Cost Model 89
4.6. Conclusions and Implications.............................................................91
5 Turnover and the Dynamics of Labor Demand 95
5.1. Motivation............................................................................................................95
5.2. Estimating Dynamic Labor Demand
in the Presence of Quits 97
5.3. Description of the Data............................................................... 100
5.4. Results............................................................................................................................................................................102
5.5. Conclusions and Implications for
Dynamic Labor Demand............................................................. 103
6 Job Turnover and Labor Turnover:
A Taxonomy of Employment Dynamics 107
6.1. Introduction 107
6.2. Alternative Concepts of Employment
and Job Dynamics 108
6.3. Estimates of the Component Flows
of Workers and Jobs..................................................................112
6.3.1. Job Flows and Flows of Workers 115
6.3.2. Net Employment Changes and Flows
of Workers 116
6.3.3. Simultaneous Hiring and Firing 121
6.4. Conclusions..........................................................................................................123
Appendix: Definition of Variables................................................................125
IV Policy on the Demand Side 127
7 Minimum Wages and the Demand for Labor 137
7.1. Introduction.........................................................................................................137
7.2. The Demand for Teen and Adult Labor...................................138
7.3. The Minimum Wage and Factor Substitution 143
7.4. The Net Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
and some Policy Simulations..............................................................147
7.5. Conclusions and Implications..........................................................150
8 The Demand for Hours of Labor:
Direct Evidence From California 153
8.1. Introduction.........................................................................................................153
8.2. California s Daily Overtime Law ....................................................154
8.3. Theoretical Background..........................................................................156
8.4. Data..............................................................................................................................157
8.5. Estimation Approach..................................................................................159
8.6. Basic Results.........................................................................................................160
8.7. Results with Control Variables 166
8.8. Implications.........................................................................................................168
8.9. Conclusions 172
9 The Timing of Labor Demand 175
9.1. Introduction........................................................................................................175
9.2. The Regulation of Work Timing 176
9.3. Data, Concepts and Descriptive Statistics 179
9.3.1. Creating the Data Set........................................................179
9.3.2. Basic Facts about the Timing of Work 181
9.3.3. The Composition of the Workforce
by the Timing of Work 186
9.3.4. Summary and Uses of the Individual Data Sets 186
9.4. Specification and Estimation
of the Production Models 186
9.4.1. Basic Estimates 186
9.4.2. A Few Checks on the Estimation 192
9.5. A Policy Simulation 193
9.6. Conclusions 195
10 The Costs of Worker Displacement 197
10.1. Introduction 197
10.2. The Nature of Losses 198
10.3. Interferring the Effects of Impending Displacement 201
10.3.1. Case I.A. Symmetric Lack of Information 202
10.3.2. Case LB. Symmetric Information
About Impending Displacement 203
10.3.3. Case II.A. Asymmetric Information
with Worker Ignorance.......................................................203
10.3.4. Case II.B. Asymmetric Information
with Worker Knowledge....................................................204
10.4. Measurement and Estimation...........................................................206
10.5. Estimates of Wage Profiles Among Displaced
and Laid-off Workers..................................................................................207
10.6. Workers Losses and Their Implications..................................213
10.7. Conclusions..........................................................................................................216
11 Policy Equilibria in a Federal System: The Effects
of Higher Tax Ceilings for Unemployment Insurance............219
11.1. Introduction.........................................................................................................219
11.2. Institutions and Policy Issues ..........................................................220
11.3. Interest Bargaining Under a Superior Mandate -
The Ul Tax Ceiling..........................................................................................223
11.3.1. The Unemployment Insurance System...............224
11.3.2. The Firms Party.....................................................................225
11.3.3. The Workers Party..................................................................228
11.3.4. Equilibrium......................................................................................229
11.3.5. Comparative Statics................................................................231
11.3.6. Discussion.........................................................................................232
11.4. Direct Tests of the Effects of Higher Tax Ceilings..........233
11.5. Conclusions, and Other Applications.......................................238
V Discrimination: Preferences for People 243
12 Beauty and the Labor Market 251
12.1. Background 252
12.2. Models of Beauty in the Labor Market 255
12.3. Data..........................................................257
12.4. Looks and Earnings ............................................................................260
12.4.1. Estimates of the Relationship of
Looks and Earnings.................................................................260
12.4.2. Synthesis of the Basic Results, Some
Criticisms, and an Initial Interpretation.............266
12.5. The Absence of Differences by Gender...................................269
12.6. Sorting, Productivity or Discrimination?...............................271
12.7. Conclusions and implications...........................................................275
13 Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier:
Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative? 279
13.1. Introduction........................................................................................................279
13.2. Modeling the Nature of Responses to
Personal Characteristics..........................................................................280
13.3. The Impact of Changing Variance of a Characteristic. 282
13.3.1. The Beauty of Charitable Solicitors........................282
13.3.2. Beauty in a Dutch Came Show, 2002..................284
13.3.3. Economists Beauty and AEA Elections,
1966-2004......................................................................................286
13.4. The Impact of a Variance-Preserving Increase
in a Characteristic s Mean.....................................................................289
13.4.1. The Increasing Height of Dutch Men,
1981-2010........................................................................................289
13.4.2. Varying Average Beauty in the Dutch Game
Show and the AEA Elections..........................................295
13.5. Review and Conclusion...........................................................................297
14 Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination:
Lawyers Looks and Lucre....................................................................................301
14.1. Introduction........................................................................................................301
14.2. Ascriptive Characteristics, Earnings,
and Occupational Sorting....................................................................302
14.3. Data on Lawyers and Their Looks 306
14.4. The Effect of Beauty on Earnings 312
14.5. Sorting and the Sources of Wage Effects 319
14.6. Conclusions..........................................................................................................326
15 What is Discrimination?
Gender in the American Economic Association,
1935-2004.......................................................................................................................331
15.1. Initial Results 331
15.2. Other Factors Affecting Electoral Outcomes 333
15.3. Estimating a Model of the Determinants
of Electoral Success.....................................................................................335
15.4. Gender Discrimination by Whom? 341
15.5. Conclusions -
Implications for Studying Discrimination......................... 344
16 Strike Three:
Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation 349
16.1. Data.........................................................................................................................353
16.1.1. Pitches..........................................................................................353
16.1.2. Player and Umpire Race/Ethnicity.....................353
16.1.3. Pitch Location...............................................................................355
16.1.4. Pitcher Performance..................................................... 356
16.2. Called Pitches and Umpire-Pitcher Matches.....................356
16.3. Biased Evaluation When Bias Is Costly................................360
16.3.1. Other Matches........................................................................367
16.3.2. Postseason............................................................................ 367
16.3.3. Umpire and City Characteristics........................368
16.3.4. Gaming the System................................................................369
16.4. The Effects of Biased Evaluations
on Agents Strategies...............................................................................369
16.5. Measures of Performance and the
Measurement of Discrimination......................................................374
16.6. Conclusions..................................................................................................................378
VI Where Has Research on Labor Demand Been?
Where Is It Going? 331
Notes 389
References 415
Index ................................................................................................................................................................................435
About the Author 444
...and the Editors 445
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