Contents:Introduction to the ElgarEncyclopedia of Labour Studies xTor Eriksson1 Active Labour Market Policies 1Anders Forslund2 African Labor Markets 5Niels-Hugo Blunch3 Agricultural Labor Markets 9Diane Charlton4 Apprenticeships 14Uschi Backes-Gellner andPatrick Lehnert5 Beveridge Curve,Matching Functions 19Juuso Vanhala6 Dynamic EmploymentAdjustment of Firms 24Gerard A. Pfann7 Early Retirement 27René Böheim8 Employee ownership 30Takao Kato9 Employer and employee learning 35Jaime Ortega10 Employer Search 38Jan C. van Ours11 Employment ProtectionLegislation Impacts 42Paulino Maria Freitas Teixeira12 Executive Compensation 46Martin J. Conyon13 Firms and Wages 52István Boza14 Footballers' Labour Market 57Robert Simmons15 Global Value Chains andEmployment Relations 61Sarosh C. Kuruvilla16 HRM Practices and Productivity 66Kathryn L. Shaw17 Intergenerational Income Mobility 71Jo Blanden18 International Migration 75Mariola Pytlikova and Davit Adunts19 Japanese Labor Market 81Ryo Kambayashi20 Job Design 84Michael J. Gibbs21 Job Insecurity 89Francis Green22 Job Satisfaction 93John S. Heywood23 Jobs, Tasks, Authority 97Alexandra Spitz-Oener24 Labor Income Share 101Saumik Paul25 Labour MarketDiscrimination: Ethnicityand Race 104Mats Hammarstedt and Ali Ahmed26 Labour MarketDiscrimination: Gender 107Dominique Meurs27 Labor MarketDiscrimination: Methodand Measurement 111Ali Ahmed and Mats Hammarstedt28 Labor MarketDiscrimination: Sexual Orientation 115Nick Drydakis29 Labour Market Integrationof Immigrants 120Pieter Bevelander30 Labour Supply and Taxes 123Monica Costa Dias31 Monopsonistic Labour Markets 129Boris Hirsch and Elke J.
Jahn32 Non-Financial Motivationin the Workplace 133Gary Charness, Michael Cooperand J. Lucas Reddinger33 Non-Wage Labour Costs 140Robert A. Hart34 Occupational Licensing 144Morris Kleiner35 Outsourcing, Consequencesfor Employees 148Holger Görg36 Payroll Taxes: Incidenceand Employment Effects 153Roope Uusitalo37 Performance Evaluations 157Anders Frederiksen38 Performance Feedback:Cognitive and Motivational Effects 160Marie Claire Villeval39 Performance Pay:Consequences on Workers' Health 164Ioannis Theodissou40 Performance Related Payand Performance 171Tor Eriksson41 Promotion Tournaments 176Michael Bognanno42 Public Sector Labor Markets 180Claudio Lucifora43 Recruitment: Internal or External? 185Jed DeVaro44 Regional Labour Markets 189Uwe Blien45 Returns to Education 194Franz Buscha and Matthew Dickson46 Shadow Economy Labour Markets 199Dominik H. Enste47 Skill-Biased TechnologicalChange 203Pekka Ilmakunnas48 Skills acquisition:workplace learning andworkers' productivity 206Andries de Grip49 Strikes and Conflict Mediation 210John Kennan50 Team Productivity 213Hideo Owan51 Temporary Jobs 218Lia Pacelli52 Unemployment: Duration,Incidence 222Tor Eriksson53 Unpaid Work 226Leslie S. Stratton54 Wage Bargaining Institutions 231Erling Barth55 Worker Representation 235Alex Bryson and John Forth56 Working Hours 240Peter Dolton57 Workplace Sickness Absence 245Wolter Hassink58 Works Councils 249Uwe JirjahnIndex 255.