Budgeting Basics and Beyond or The Economics of Women Men and Work

Budgeting Basics and Beyond

Author: Jae K Shim

Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Second Edition provides managers with a hassle-free resource that’s guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. This updated edition features new information on service and nonprofit applications, types of financial models, Web-based budgeting and planning solutions, and much more. From preparing and presenting budgets to monitoring results against budget figures and handling any budget problem that comes up, this Second Edition is a go-to reference for every budgeting issue. Packed with case studies, illustrations, exhibits, forms, checklists, graphs, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of budgeting, planning, and control problems, this Second Edition is both a handy desk reference and problem-solver for today’s financial and nonfinancial managers in public practice and private industry.

Book review: Undergraduate Introduction to Financial Mathematics or An Introduction to Modern Bayesian Econometrics

The Economics of Women, Men, and Work

Author: Francine Blau

A current summary and synthesis of research and data on gender issues in the labor market, this book presents readers with a single volume that thoroughly explores gender issues in the workplace and in the family. Chapter topics include women and men: changing roles in a changing economy, the family as an economic unit, the allocation of time between the household and the labor market, differences in occupations and earnings, recent developments in the labor market, changing work roles and the family, and gender differences in other countries. For use by practicing economists and social scientists, and for men and women interested in learning about their place within-and effect upon-the labor market.

Booknews

This text is designed to acquaint students with research findings concerning women, men, and work, both in the labor market and in the household. It is intended primarily for courses concerned with the economic status of women. Topics include the narrowing gender pay gap, the declining employment prospects of less-educated men, wage stagnation, corporate restructuring, and changing family structures. The authors assume a knowledge of introductory economics but not of advanced theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Women and men : changing roles in a changing economy	13
Ch. 3	The family as an economic unit	35
Ch. 4	The allocation of time between the household and the labor market	85
Ch. 5	Differences in occupations and earnings : overview	136
Ch. 6	Differences in occupations and earnings : the human capital model	158
Ch. 7	Differences in occupations and earnings : the role of labor market discrimination	202
Ch. 8	Recent developments in the labor market : their impact on women and men	256
Ch. 9	Changing work roles and the family	289
Ch. 10	Policies affecting paid work and the family	326
Ch. 11	Gender differences in other countries	371