Labor and Employment Law and Economics

Edited by Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Seth D. Harris and Orly Lobel

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The economic analysis of labor and employment law is a bold effort to apply economic theory to explain important empirical facts about the regulation of the employment relationship and to provide positive predictions and normative analyses that are useful to policy-makers. This book draws together 24 chapters, by leading scholars in the field, summarizing the important theoretical and empirical work that has been done to date on a wide spectrum of labor and employment law topics including: regulating employment contracts, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, health insurance, executive pay, workers’ compensation, unemployment, occupational health and safety, discrimination, needs of families, training and slave labor, to name but a few.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781847207296
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Labor Law and Employment Regulation: Neoclassical and Institutional Perspectives

Bruce Kaufman

Ch 2 Employment Contracts

Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe

Ch 3 Regulating Unions and Collective Bargaining

Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Arthur R. Traynor

Ch 4 Investments in Adult Lifelong Learning

Lisa Lynch

Ch 5 Minimum Wage Legislation

Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson

Ch 6 Health Insurance

David A. Hyman

Ch 7 International Executive Pay: Current Practices and Future Trends

Randall S. Thomas

Ch 8 Workers’ Compensation

John F. Burton

Ch 9 Occupational Safety and Health Regulation

Sidney A. Shapiro

Ch 10 Employment Discrimination

Stewart J. Schwab

Ch 11 Accommodating Families

Joyce Jacobsen

Ch 12 Workplace Disability

Seth D. Harris and Michael Ashley Stein

Ch 13 Adjudication of Workplace Disputes

Douglas M. Mahony and Hoyt N. Wheeler

Ch 14 The Economics of Child Labour

Alessandro Cigno

Ch 15 The Economics of Slavery, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking

Patrick Belser

Ch 16 Discharge

J.H. Verkerke

Ch 17 Unemployment

Stephen Woodbury

Ch 18 Intellectual Property and Restrictive Covenants

Orly Lobel

Ch 19 Pensions and Retirement

Jonathan Barry Forman

Ch 20 Migration and Labor Markets: A Brief Survey

Jagdeep S. Bhandari

Ch 21 Employee Collective Action in a Global Economy

Jeffrey M. Hirsch

Ch 22 National Regulation in a Global Economy: New Governance Approaches to 21st Century Work Law

Orly Lobel

Ch 23 International Labor Standards and International Trade: An Economic Overview

Richard N. Block and Jonas Zoninsein

Ch 24 A Labor Law for the Digital Era: The Future of Labor and Employment Law in the United States

Katherine V.W. Stone

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