Author: Shoshana Grossbard
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: labor, economics, modern, pioneer, mincer, jacob
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2006-04-13
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0387291741
ISBN-13: 9780387291741

This volume contains essays by or about Jacob Mincer who, along with Gary Becker, is a founding father of modern empirical labor economics. His methodology analyzes the economics of the working world, and his human capital model is a fundamental tool in empirical economics. This is a very personal collection. It not only examines Mincer’s research; it also assesses the impact of his work on the careers of several important economists and includes portions of Mincer’s correspondence with those scholars. Shoshana Grossbard is professor of economics at San Diego State University and foundin

Authors:Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman, Jacob Mincer,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: industrial, societies, advanced, evidence, economy, theory, marriage
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2003-04-28
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521891434
ISBN-13: 9780521891431

This book examines the impact of marriage on labor force participation, productivity at work, savings, government programs, and many other aspects of the economy. Lawmakers, legal scholars, sociologists, psychologists, spiritual leaders and all concerned with threats to the institution of marriage and the values that it embodies benefit from this reexamination of a basic Western institution via the lens of professional economists.Book DescriptionThis book examines the impact of marriage on labor force participation, productivity at work, savings, government programs, and many other aspects of

Author: Pedro N. Teixeira
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: labor, economics, prize, iza, modern, mincer, founding, father, jacob
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-05-17
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0199211310
ISBN-13: 9780199211319

The first in a series of books published with the IZA, this book presents and analyzes the work of one of the most important economists of the 20th century - Jacob Mincer. Mincer’s work has had a lasting influence on contemporary labor economics in both theoretical and methodological terms. Mincer played a central role in shaping contemporary labor economics, not the least by largely determining its research agenda. His work in the 1960s and 70s on the determinants of individual earnings, notably human capital, and on labor force supply, particularly female participation, have had an eno