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Modern Labor Economics

, 2021
Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its fourteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Ronald G. Ehrenberg   +2 more
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Acquiring Labor [PDF]

open access: possibleQuarterly Journal of Finance, 2011
We present evidence that some firms pursue mergers with an objective of acquiring and retaining the target firm’s employees. We identify such target firms by the language used to describe employees in their 10-K statements, focusing on references to “skilled” employees.
Paige Ouimet, Rebecca Zarutskie
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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

, 1982
First published in 1974, this text is written in a direct way by Harry Braverman, whose years spent as an industrial worker gave him insight into the labour process and the conviction to reject the reigning wisdoms of academic sociology.
H. Braverman
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Emotional Labor in Service Roles: The Influence of Identity

, 1993
Emotional labor is the display of expected emotions by service agents during service encounters. It is performed through surface acting, deep acting, or the expression of genuine emotion.
Blake E. Ashforth, R. Humphrey
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The Control of Labor

New England Journal of Medicine, 1999
Labor is the physiologic process by which a fetus is expelled from the uterus to the outside world. Labor is defined as an increase in myometrial activity or, more precisely, a switch in the pattern of myometrial contractility from irregular contractures (long-lasting, low-frequency activity) to regular contractions (high-intensity, high-frequency ...
Errol R. Norwitz   +2 more
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Labor and Monopoly Capital

, 1974
This book first took shape in my mind as little more than a study of occupational shifts in the United States. I was interested in the structure of the working class, and the manner in which it had changed.
H. Braverman
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The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-skilled Natives

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration, 2018
This paper examines the effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of less-skilled natives. Working from a simple model of a local labor market, we show that the effects of immigration can be estimated from the correlations between the fraction ...
Joseph G. Altonji, David Card
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Labor Demand

, 2021
We will now complete our discussion of the components of a labor market by considering a firm’s choice of labor demand, before we consider equilibrium. We will now revisit the production function from your microeconomics course.
Daniel S. Hamermesh
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Induction of LABOR

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1961
Artificial termination of pregnancy, at or near term, is accomplished by cesarean section or by induction of labor. As opposed to the natural or spontaneous onset of labor, these artificial procedures are definitive acts of commission by the doctor for which he assumes responsibility.
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Emotional labor and burnout: Comparing two perspectives of "people work"

, 2002
Although it has often been presumed that jobs involving “people work” (e.g., nurses, service workers) are emotionally taxing (Maslach & Jackson, 1982), seldom is the emotional component of these jobs explicitly studied.
C. Brotheridge, Alicia A. Grandey
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