Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prefatory Note xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. The Need for Expanded Information
6. 1. Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses 9
7. 2. Analytical Needs and Empirical Knowledge in Labor Economics 51
8. II. The Measurement of Employment and Unemployment: New Dimensions
9. 3. Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows 77
10. 4. Unemployment and Labor Force Attachment: A Multistate Analysis of Nonemployment 123
11. 5. Are Lifetime Jobs Disappearing? Job Duration in the United States, 1973-1 993 157
12. 6. On Measuring the Impact of Ownership Change on Labor: Evidence from U.S. Food- Manufacturing Plant-Level Data 207
13. 7. The CPS after the Redesign: Refocusing the Economic Lens 249
14. III. Employee Compensation: Measurement and Impact
15. 8. Divergent Trends in Alternative Wage Series 293
16. IV. Looking Inside the Firm
17. 9. What Happens within Firms? A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Compensation Policies 329
18. 10. Internal and External Labor Markets: An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data 357
19. 11. The Worker-Establishment Characteristics Database 371
20. 12. A Needs Analysis of Training Data: What Do We Want, What Do We Have, Can We Ever Get It? 405
21. 13. Employer-Provided Training, Wages, and Capital Investment 431
22. Contributors 463
23. Author Index 467
24. Subject Index 473