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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Throughout the OECD, 30% of the average firm’s total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This reissue, first published in 1984, focuses upon these non-wage labour costs, which include; fringe-benefit payments, obligatory social-welfare contributions, holiday entitlements and expenditures on recruitment and training, seeking to make amends for the woeful lack of... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Structure of Non-wage Labour Costs: Definitions and Distinctions 3. The Quantitative Importance of Non-wage Labour Costs 4. Why do Firms incur such Costs? 5. Factor Substitution and Non-wage Labour Costs 6. Cyclical Employment Effects 7. Wage Inflation and Wage Rigidities 8. Unemployment Insurance, Other Obligatory Social Welfare Contributions and Unemployment 9. Worksharing and Non-wage Labour Costs 10. Fringe Benefit Payments 11. Should Governments Attempt to Reduce Non-wage Labour Costs?
Biography
Bob Hart
