Jobs, Training and Worker Well-being -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. On the link between investment in on-the-job training and earnings dispersion: the case of France -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The methodology: estimating the contribution of the explanatory variables to the variance of earnings -- 3. The data sources -- 4. The evaluation strategy -- 5. The results: decomposing the variance of earnings -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A. Additional details on the methodology -- Appendix B. Results of the estimation of wage regressions -- Chapter 2. Employee training and wage dispersion: white- and blue-collar workers in Britain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modelling wage returns -- 3. The data -- 4. Results -- 5. Wage returns to training within groups -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 3. Income inequality, income mobility, and social welfare for urban and rural households of China and the United States -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data sources and procedures -- 3. Income inequality and mobility among rural and urban households -- 4. A longer perspective on income inequality -- 5. Measures of changes in social well-being -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Data for the United States -- Chapter 4. Why are jobs designed the way they arequest -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A simple model of multitasking, interdependence, and discretion -- 3. Data -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B. Discussion of model -- Chapter 5. Is seniority-based pay used as a motivational devicequest Evidence from plant-level data -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Survey's description and data -- 4. Empirical analysis -- 5. Results -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Chapter 6. The promotion dynamics of American executives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. The static econometric model -- 4. The determinants of promotions -- 5. The Effect of Human Capital and Promotion Opportunities across Levels -- 6. Promotion dynamics and fast tracks -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Data Appendix -- Theory Appendix: Fast Tracks -- Chapter 7. Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modeling self-selection in job satisfaction -- 3. Modeling selection using copulas -- 4. Job satisfaction of Public and Private Sector Workers in Germany -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 8. The survival and growth of establishments: does gender segregation matterquest -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The linked establishment-employee data -- 3. Measuring gender segregation -- 4. Survival -- 5. Growth -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 9. Futile and effective ways to combat wage discrimination -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of current approach and legislation -- 3. Results -- 4. Effective alternative policies: tax -- 5. Effective alternative policies: subsidy -- 6. Quotas -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 10. Patterns of nominal and real wage rigidity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motivating issues -- 3. Data features -- 4. Empirical specification -- 5. Results -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References.