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Sharif, Mohammed.

Work behavior of the world's poor : theory, evidence, and policy / Mohammed Sharif. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2003. - ix, 180 p. ; 23 cm.

Online version:
Sharif, Mohammed.
Work behavior of the world's poor.
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2002
(OCoLC)654269993

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Professor Paul P. Streeten --
The 'Perverse Behavior' Hypothesis--Issues for Investigation --
Inverted 'S'--The Complete Neoclassical Labor Supply Function --
Poverty and the Forward Falling Labor Supply Function--A Microeconomic Analysis --
A Technique for Estimating a Direct Utility Function --
Landholdings, Living Standards, and Labor Supply Functions--Evidence from a Poor Agrarian Economy --
Working Poor Unemployment and Wage Rigidity--Evidence of Economic Distress --
Forward Falling Labor Supply--Implications for Wage Rigidity, Unemployment, and Plan Failure With Gilbert S. Suzawa and Carole F. Miller --
A Behavioral Analysis of the Subsistence Standard of Living TOC



ISBN: 0754630668 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2002027910

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Wages--Statistical methods.
Agricultural wages--Statistical methods.
Hours of labor--Statistical methods.
Cost and standard of living--Statistical methods.
Poverty--Statistical methods.
Working class--Statistical methods.
Labor policy--Statistical methods.
Economic policy--Statistical methods.

LC Class. No.: HD4915 / .S5 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 331.54 / SHW 2003