Preface / Solomon W. Polachek, Oliver Bargain -- Earnings inequality and market work in husband-wife families / John Pencavel -- Wage arrears and inequality in the distribution of pay : lessons from Russia / Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth -- Computers and the wage structure / Michael J. Handel -- The influence of stocks and flows on migrants location choices / Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang -- Wage and job dynamics after welfare reform : the importance of job skills / Rucker C. Johnson -- Firms, industries, and unemployment insurance : an analysis using employer-employee data / Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen -- The impact of deunionisation on earnings dispersion revisited / John T. Addison, Ralph W. Bailey, W. Stanley Siebert -- Maternal education and child schooling outcomes in Nepal / Diane Dancer, Anu Rammohan -- Employment dynamics and business relocation : new evidence from the national establishment time series / David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Brandon Wall -- Minimum wage effects on wages, employment and prices in Brazil / Sara Lemos -- Bargaining and arbitration with asymmetric uncertainty / Cary Deck, Amy Farmer -- The employment-productivity relationship with employment criteria / Sumati Srinivas, Michael Sattinger -- Who pays for general training in private sector Britain? / Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan.

This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening of the family earnings distribution? To what extent does the decline in unionization widen the distribution of earnings? To what extent do computers expand the earnings distribution? To what extent does the Russian wage distribution change if one accounted for wage arrears? To what extent does business relocation bring about job creation and job destruction? To what extent does maternal education increase childrens education? To what extent do job skills matter for low-income workers? And finally, why do minimum wage increases often fail to lead to increases in unemployment? There are thirteen new and original chapters containing research on aspects of worker well-being. Each chapter is written by experts in the field.

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