Labor Statistics Measurement Issues
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2007
494 pages
978-0-226-31459-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rapidly changing technology, the globalization of markets, and the declining role of unions are just some of the factors that have led to dramatic changes in working conditions in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the difficult measurement problems underlying analysis of the labor market. Labor Statistics Measurement Issues helps to fill this gap by exploring key theoretical and practical issues in the measurement of employment, wages, and workplace practices.Some of the chapters in this volume explore the conceptual issues of what is needed, what is known, or what can be learned from existing data, and what needs have not been met by available data sources. Others make innovative uses of existing data to analyze these topics. Also included are papers examining how answers to important questions are affected by alternative measures used and how these can be reconciled. This important and useful book will find a large audience among labor economists and consumers of labor statistics.
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John Haltiwanger | Marilyn E. Manser | Robert H. Topel
Labor Statistics Measurement Issues
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02/1999
University of Chicago Press
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Content
- Intro
- Labor Statistics Measurement Issues
- Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Introduction
- I. The Need for Expanded Information
- 1. Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses
- 2. Analytical Needs and Empirical Knowledge in Labor Economics
- II. The Measurement of Employment and Unemployment: New Dimensions
- 3. Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows
- 4. Unemployment and Labor Force Attachment: A Multistate Analysis of Nonemployment
- 5. Are Lifetime Jobs Disappearing? Job Duration in the United States, 1973-1993
- 6. On Measuring the Impact of Ownership Change on Labor: Evidence from U.S. Food-Manufacturing Plant-Level Data
- 7. The CPS after the Redesign: Refocusing the Economic Lens
- III. Employee Compensation: Measurement and Impact
- 8. Divergent Trends in Alternative Wage Series
- IV. Looking Inside the Firm
- 9. What Happens within Firms? A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Compensation Policies
- 10. Internal and External Labor Markets: An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
- 11. The Worker-Establishment Characteristics Database
- 12. A Needs Analysis of Training Data: What Do We Want, What Do We Have, Can We Ever Get It?
- 13. Employer-Provided Training, Wages, and Capital Investment
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
