Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs

Business & Money

Hart, Robert A.

Management & Leadership

Unwin Hyman

Presenting the first systematic and integrated analysis of working time and employment, this important book reaches the core elements of a vital area of labour economics. It offers the most comprehensive analysis ever of the impact of workweek reductions on employment and hours. There is also a thorough coverage of part-time employment, temporary layoffs, short-time working, labour subsidies, social security funding, mandatory and early retirement, and collective bargaining. As a background, it provides a wealth of international statistical and empirical detail on major OECD countries, including the USA, Japan, the UK, West Germany arid France. Both micro and macro aspects of research are covered, as well as detailed analyses of implicit contracts and temporary layoffs, demand and supply aspects of part-time employment, general and marginal employment subsidies, payroll tax rate and ceiling changes, and the employment impacts of changes in mandatory and early retirement. Further, it deals with employer, government and trade union attitudes to various types of working-time policy issue, and it provides a general assessment of the potential of policy initiatives in working time to create employment. The book provides the first comprehensive attempt to examine carefully the key economic issues involved in the general policy debate on working time and employment. It will be of serious interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in labour economics, and will also be relevant to the interests in microeconomics, macroeconomics, business economics and management studies.

Working Time and Employment

This book examines theories of firm-level human capital investment with respect to topics in labor demand, macroeconomics (especially connected to unemployment), and firm-union bargaining. It covers a wide range of related policy issues, including the worksharing versus layoff debate, wage-tenure profiles, taxation and the choice between pure wages and profit sharing compensation, and the role of specific investment in the Japanese firm versus the traditional (United States) neoclassical firm.

Human Capital, Employment and Bargaining

Moutos, Thomas

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Provides a detailed discussion of all aspects of employment (including recruitment, tenure, turnover, promotion, labor force participation, unemployment, and retirement) and labor payments (wages, bonus payments, non-wage costs) in the Japanese labor market. All topics are discussed in relation to comparable experience in the United States and Europe. A major theme concerns whether or not key features of Japanese labor market institutions and practices differ from competitor economies.

Work and Pay in Japan

Kawasaki, Seiichi

The Economics of Overtime Working

Numerous individuals throughout international labor markets work hours in excess of their standard contractual hours. Robert Hart presents the first comprehensive economic evaluation of this phenomenon, examining theoretical, empirical and policy aspects of overtime hours and pay. He utilizes detailed international evidence drawn from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan in his comparative assessment of labor supply and demand and compensating differential models of overtime behavior.

Industries

The eccentric tradition: American diplomacy in the Far East

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