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50th Celebratory Volume

Volume 50, Research in Labor Economics
2023 ᛫


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Summary


This 50th Celebratory Research in Labor Economics volume contains ten original and innovative articles each written by stellar senior scholars in labor economics, including a Nobel Laureate. Each article deals with an aspect of worker well-being addressing questions such as: What can epidemiologists learn from search and matching models? What advanced degrees yield the highest returns? How do occupational and safety risks on the job affect earnings? What are best practices in estimating gender discrimination? Has technology exacerbated the widening earnings distribution? How have bureaucrats overregulated the economy? Did Right to Work laws really decrease unionization? Why were undocumented immigrants able to return to work faster than natives during Covid-19? And, how does a husband’s death impact a widow’s use of time at home?

Table of contents

  • Foreword; Ronald G. Ehrenberg

  • Chapter 1. The Sam Approach to Epidemic Models; Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R. Moen, and Christopher A Pissarides
  • Chapter 2. The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men; Joseph G. Altonji, John Eric Humphries, and Ling Zhong
  • Chapter 3. Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence; Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi
  • Chapter 4. The Career Evolution of the Sex Gap in Wages: Discrimination Vs. Human Capital Investment; David Neumark and Giannina Vaccaro
  • Chapter 5. Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities; Shelly Lundberg
  • Chapter 6. Productivity and Wages: What Was the Productivity-Wage Link in the Digital Revolution of the Past and What Might Occur in the Ai Revolution of the Future?; Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn Shaw, and James Jedras
  • Chapter 7. Agency, Activism and the Expansion of the Regulatory State; Robert Topel
  • Chapter 8. Right-To-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting; Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux, and Neil Lloyd
  • Chapter 9. The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic; George J. Borjas and Hugh Cassidy
  • Chapter 10. Widows’ Time: Adjusting To Loss; Daniel S. Hamermesh, MichaÅ‚ Myck, and Monika Oczkowska

About the authors



Solomon W. Polachek, State University of New York at Binghamton and IZA.

Konstantinos Tatsiramos, University of Luxembourg, LISER and IZA.