| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages) : illustrations |
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IZA prize in labor economics series |
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IZA prize in labor economics series.
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| Contents |
Global poverty is an employment problem -- Getting started on two big problems -- Aid, growth, and jobs : a five-part policy framework -- The distributional effects of economic growth -- How the poor are working -- Rural-urban migration, urban unemployment and underemployment, and job search activity in LDCs -- On-the-job search in a labor market model : ex ante choices and ex post outcomes -- A welfare economic approach to growth and distribution in the dual economy -- Labor market modeling and the urban informal sector : theory and evidence -- Changes over time in individual countries -- On inequality comparisons -- Do inequality measures measure inequality? -- The absolute poverty approach -- Economic well-being -- Income mobility -- Earnings mobility, inequality, and economic growth in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela -- Private and social returns to education in labor surplus economies -- A welfare economic analysis of labor market policies in the Harris-Todaro model -- Directions for future research |
| Summary |
This work brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. The central questions in his work are how economic growth affects standards of living, how labor markets work in developing countries, and how different labor market policies affect well-being |
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Employment and Development brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary S. Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. Most of the poor in developing countries live in households in which people work, but still they are poor because the best available work pays so little. Employment and Development: How Work Can Lead From and Into Poverty questions how economic growth affects standards of living, how labor markets work in developing countries, and how different labor market policies affect well-being. Through a collection of essays, this book tackles major questions in development and labor economics. Who benefits from economic growth and who is hurt by economic decline? Why are distributional factors and labor market conditions improving in some countries but not in others? How do developing countries' labor markets work? How would labor market conditions change if different policies were to be put into effect? What are the welfare consequences of these changes? Through distributional analysis, Fields examines inequality, poverty, income mobility, and economic well-being, and through analysis of changing labor market conditions he examines employment and unemployment, employment composition, and labor earnings. By concentrating on the poor and understanding how the labor markets work for them and how their labor market earnings might be raised in response to different policy interventions, Fields addresses questions of first-order importance for human well-being |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-423) and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2019) |
| Subject |
Labor economics -- Developing countries
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Labor market.
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Working poor.
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Income distribution.
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Labor economics.
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Labor demand.
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Labor supply.
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Employment (Economic theory)
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employing.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor supply
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Labor demand
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Income distribution
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Labor economics
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Labor market
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Working poor
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pieters, Janneke, editor
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| ISBN |
9780192547361 |
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0192547364 |
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9780191853166 |
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019185316X |
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