Bowen / Finegan The Economics of Labor Force Participation

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7477-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 924 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This comprehensive and detailed analysis of the factors that determine who is in the labor force in the United States is equally interesting for the light it sheds on what people are not working or seeking work-and why they are not. The effects on labor force participation rates of both individual characteristics (e.g. age, marital status, color, educational attainment) and labor market conditions (unemployment, earnings, industry mix) are analyzed for specific population groups: prime-age males, single women, married women, older persons, and younger persons. The book concludes with a discussion of the sensitivity of participation rates to the tightness of labor markets as revealed by both time-series and cross-sectional analyses.

Originally published in 1969.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, William G.

Finegan, T. Aldrich

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. v
Table of Contents, pg. ix
List of Tables, pg. xvii
List of Figures, pg. xxiv
CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Scope, Organization, and the Labor Force Concept, pg. 3
CHAPTER 2. The Conceptual Framework and Method of Analysis, pg. 16
CHAPTER 3. Prime-Age Males: Individual Characteristics, pg. 39
CHAPTER 4. Prime-Age Males: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 75
CHAPTER 5. Married Women: Individual Characteristics, pg. 88
CHAPTER 6. Married Women: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 159
CHAPTER 7. Trends in the Participation of Married Women, pg. 197
CHAPTER 8. Single Women 25-54, pg. 242
CHAPTER 9. Older Persons: Individual Characteristics, pg. 270
CHAPTER 10. Older Persons: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 335
CHAPTER 11. Trends in the Participation of Older Persons, pg. 351
CHAPTER 12. Younger Persons: Individual Characteristics, pg. 380
CHAPTER 13. Younger Persons: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 419
CHAPTER 14. Younger Males: Trends in Participation, Enrollment, and Activity Rates, pg. 458
CHAPTER 15. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Cross-Sectional Relations, pg. 479
CHAPTER 16. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Time-Series Relations, pg. 505
CHAPTER 17. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Some Evidence from the 1963-1967 Boom, pg. 530
Chapter Appendices, pg. 539
General Appendices, pg. 629
Index, pg. 889