Human Capital, Employment and Bargaining

by Robert A. Hart, Thomas Moutos

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521453264
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/18/1995
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

1. Overview; 2. Labour demand and efficient contract models; 3. Turnover costs, firm-specific training and employment; 4. Employment and bargaining; 5. Choice of compensation, unemployment insurance and policy issues; 6. Team-related human capital and bargaining; 7. Coalitional versus neoclassical firms; 8. Future developments.

Editorial Reviews

"This book will be of special value to academic labor economists and contract theorists." Donald O. Parsons, Industral and Labor Relations Reviews

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