“The book collects articles published by Daniel Hamermesh between 1969 and 2013 dealing with the general topic of the demand for labor. The first section presents empirical studies of basic issues in labor demand, including the extent to which different types of labor are substitutes, how firms’ and workers’ investments affect labor turnover, and how costs of adjusting employment affect the dynamics of employment and patterns of labor turnover. The second section examines the impacts of various labor-market policies, including minimum wages, penalty pay for using overtime hours or hours worked on weekends or nights, severance pay for displaced workers, and payroll taxes to finance unemployment insurance benefits. The final section deals with general questions of discrimination by employers along various dimensions, including looks, gender and ethnicity, in all cases focusing on the process of discrimination and the behavior that results.”

 

GLO Fellow Giulietti and GLO President Zimmermann had edited the book in their past roles as IZA Research Director and IZA Director, respectively. The book is connected to the 2013 IZA Prize in Labor Economics given to Hamermesh by a prize committee consisting of George A. Akerlof, Corrado Giulietti, Richard Portes, Jan Svejnar and Klaus F. Zimmermann, which was chaired by the former IZA Director.

 

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