Jobs, training and worker well-being / edited by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos..

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On the link between investment in on-the-job training and earnings dispersion : the case of France / Audrey Dumas, Said Hanchane and Jacques Silber -- Employee training and wage dispersion : white- and blue-collar workers in Britain / Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen and Karen Mumford -- Income inequality, income mobility, and social welfare for urban and rural households of China and the United States / Niny Khor and John Pencavel -- Why are jobs designed the way they are? / Michael Gibbs, Alec Levenson and Cindy Zoghi -- Is seniority-based pay used as a motivational device? : evidence from plant-level data / Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez and Maia Güell -- The promotion dynamics of American executives / Christian Belzil and Michael Bognanno -- Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction / Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer and Rainer Winkelmann -- The survival and growth of establishments : does gender segregation matter? / Helena Persson and Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist -- Futile and effective ways to combat wage discrimination / Yuval Shilony and Yossef Tobol -- Patterns of nominal and real wage rigidity / Louis N. Christofides and Paris Nearchou.

Why are jobs designed the way they are? Does seniority-based pay provide a sufficient motivation for workers? Do sex-segregated firms grow more quickly than firms more equally divided by gender? What policies are effective in combating discrimination? This title addresses these questions and deals with the issues concerning worker welfare.

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