Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and on the Job: (48 Research in Labor Economics)

How do changes at home, in the labor market and on the job affect worker well-being? This volume of Research in Labor Economics contains eight original and insightful articles answering this question. Seven deal with demographic and labor market change, and one deals with wage differences essentially at a point in time. Of the seven, two articles analyze changes in family related matters and have implications regarding labor supply; two examine legislative changes, one of which has implications on teenage employment, and the other on informal business formation; one looks at potential productivity changes on farms in a developing country and has implications for remaining on the family farm or going to work; one models wage growth and shows why wages sometimes fall as one remains in a job longer; and finally, one investigates new enterprise formation over time. 

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased; Rania Gihleb and Kevin LangChapter 2. The Long-term Impact of Work-Hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply; Judith Liu Chapter 3. Rural Shadow Wages and Youth Agricultural Labor Supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from Farm Panel Data; Tekalign Gutu Sakketa and Nicolas Gerber  Chapter 4. Minimum Wage Effects: Empirical Evidence from Japan; Masao Yamaguchi Chapter 5. Payroll Taxes, Social Security and Informality: The 2012 Tax Reform in Colombia; Pablo Adrian Garlati-Bertoldi Chapter 6. The Age Pay Gap Between Young and Older Employees in Italy: Perceived or Real Discrimination against the Young? Carolina Castagnetti, Luisa Rosti, and Marina Töpfer Chapter 7. Non-Promotion Signals and Job Tenure: Theory and Evidence; Xin Jin Chapter 8. Defining Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation; Robert W. Fairlie and Frank M. Fossen

About the Author :
Solomon W. Polachek is a Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University), where he has taught since 1983. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University, and he has had post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, and visiting faculty appointments at the Catholic University of Leuven, Tel Aviv and Bar Ilan Universities, Princeton, and Kasetsart University.  Konstantinos Tatsiramos holds a Joint Professorship in Labour Economics at the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). His Ph.D. is from the European University Institute, and he has had academic positions at the University of Nottingham, the University of Leicester and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).