...Kyle Bruce Early Labor Economics: Its Debt to the Management Practice of Henry S. Dennison Kyle Bruce In recent writings, Bruce Kaufman (2000c, 2001a, 2001b, 2002) has argued that contemporary human resource (HR) management—with its roots in employment or personnel management—owes...

... Economics by Paul J. McNulty. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 248. $17.50 clot hbound. In a seminar at the University of Wisconsin in 1956 Professor Edwin E. Witte, then President of the American Economic Association and senior labor economist in the country...

... priced, were sometimes diffi cult to read). Jeremy Shearmur, Australian National University 10.1215/00182702-2008-022 566 Book Reviews Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics. By Pedro N. Teixeira...

...Malcolm Rutherford This essay examines the various field observational methods used in labor economics in the United States from the early 1900s to the 1930s. Labor relations, at that time, was an area of critical importance as well as an area in which existing economic theory provided little...

...Vibha Kapuria-Foreman; Charles R. McCann, Jr. The Wisconsin school of labor history and labor economics rose and fell within a particular historical context. While Richard T. Ely studied labor union movements in pursuit of furthering social progress, others, such as John R. Commons and Selig...

... territories, which illustrated the current debates within sociology and labor economics. Finally, we study the impact of Becker’s book on social scientific research in the 1960s. Correspondence may be addressed to Jean-Baptiste Fleury, École normale supérieure de Cachan, 61 av. du Président Wilson, 94235...

... application of these methods as a “credibility revolution” in econometrics that has finally provided persuasive answers to a diverse set of questions. Particularly influential in the applied areas of labor, education, public, and health economics, the methods shape the knowledge produced by economists...

... comparable worth feminist movement equal pay labor economics stylized facts Each year, the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) announces a new “Equal Pay Day.” In 2021 , NCPE tells us that Wednesday, March 24, represents “how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned...

...Jeff Biddle The CES production function was introduced to economics in the 1961 paper “Capital-Labor Substitution and Economic Efficiency,” by Kenneth Arrow, Hollis Chenery, Bagicha Minhas, and Robert Solow. The paper had an immediate and substantial impact on economic research, and the CES...

...Charles J. Whalen Bruce E. Kaufman. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press 1993. xv, 287 pp. $40.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References McNulty , Paul J. 1980 . The Origins and Development of Labor Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press. 346 History...

...Alex Keyssar Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02 139 Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Keyssar , A. (forthcoming) Labor Economics and Unemployment: An Historian's Perspective. In Controversies in Labor...

... . The Servants of Power:A History of the Use of Social Science in American Industry . Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. Bezanson, Anna. 1921 . Promotion from Without. Quarterly Journal of Economics 36 (November): 154 -61. Blakemore, Arthur. 1987 . Preface. Journal of Labor Economics 5 (October...

...James R. Wible W. W. Wartley, III. La Salle, Ill. Open Court, 1990. xx, 315 pp. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References McNulty , Paul J. 1980 . The Origins and Development of Labor Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press. 348...

...). Jeremy Shearmur, Australian National University 10.1215/00182702-2008-022 566 Book Reviews Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics. By Pedro N. Teixeira. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv; 209 pp. £35.00. Jacob Mincer...

... 10.1215/00182702-2008-022 566 Book Reviews Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics. By Pedro N. Teixeira. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv; 209 pp. £35.00. Jacob Mincer developed the empirical style of modern labor economics. He used neoclassical economic theory...

...). Jeremy Shearmur, Australian National University 10.1215/00182702-2008-022 566 Book Reviews Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics. By Pedro N. Teixeira. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv; 209 pp. £35.00. Jacob Mincer...

... . Estey J. A. 1928 . The Labor Problem . McGraw-Hill . Friedman M. 1953 . Essays in Positive Economics . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Garver F. B. Hansen A. H. . 1928 . Principles of Economics . Boston : Ginn . Hall R. L. Hitch C. J. . 1939...

... State University. His research in labor economics and the history of economic thought has appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, and HOPE. His current research concerns the development of the economics profession in the United States during...

...). Jeff Biddle is professor of economics at Michigan State University. His research in labor economics and the history of economic thought has appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Labor Economics, and History of Political Economy...

... it was initially received and then pushed outside the mainstream of a renewed labor economics. This historical examination of the occupational crowding hypothesis serves as an examination of a famous feminist economist's first step into a lifetime of research on discrimination. Though traditionally...