Inside the Firm Contributions to Personnel Economics

I: Introduction by the Editors: Edward P. Lazear: A Founding Father of Personnel Economics
II: What Is Personnel Economics?
III: Explaining Labor Institutions in Business
Introduction
1. Why Is There Mandatory Retirement?
2. Pensions as Severance Pay
3. Job Security Provisions and Employment
4. An Economic Analysis of Works Councils
5. The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline
IV Compensation Structures
Introduction
6. Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts
7. Salaries and Piece Rates
8. Performance Pay and Productivity
9. The Job as a Concept
V Social Interactions and Personnel Economics
Introduction
10. Peer Pressure and Partnerships
11. Pay Equality and Industrial Politics
12. Culture and Language
VI: Skill Acquisition and Personnel Economics
Introduction
13. Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
14. Educational Production
15. Speeding, Terrorism, and Teaching to the Test
16. Entrepreneurship
VII: Personnel Economics - The Past and Future