Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century

Informationen zum Autor Richard B. Freeman is the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University! program director of labor studies at the NBER! and senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. Joni Hersch is professor of law and economics at Vanderbilt University. Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute. He is coauthor of The State of Working America. Klappentext "Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century" provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions. This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. While non-union institutions are unlikely to fill the gap left by the decline of unions! the findings suggest that emerging groups and unions might together improve some dimensions of worker well-being. "Emerging Labor Market Institutions" is the story of workers and institutions in flux! searching for ways to represent labor in the new century. Zusammenfassung Provides an assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions. This book also provides case studies of labor market institutions and various directions for existing institutions. It presents the story of workers and institutions searching for ways to represent labor.

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• Authors: Richard B. Freeman, Richard B. (EDT)/ Hersch Freeman, Richard B. Hersch Freeman, FREEMAN RICHARD B HERSCH JONI M, Joni Freeman Hersch
• Assisted by: Richard B. Freeman (Editor), Freeman Richard B. (Editor), Joni Hersch (Editor), Hersch Joni (Editor), Lawrence Mishel (Editor), Mishel Lawrence (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9780226261584
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26158-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: National Bureau of Economic Re; National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report; (NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports (CHUP); (NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Labour / income economics, Trade Unions, Labour Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions