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Modern Labor Economics : Theory and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780321533739 | 0321533739
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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"Modern Labor Economics provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to labor market behavior. In addition to presenting core theory in an accessible way, Ehrenberg and Smith apply theoretical concepts to the analysis of a wide variety of labor market policies and summarize the latest empirical findings."--BOOK JACKET.
KEY MESSAGE: The best-selling Modern Labor Economics provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to labor-market behavior. In addition to presenting core theory, Ehrenberg and Smith provide empirica... MORE
KEY MESSAGE: The best-selling Modern Labor Economics provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to labor-market behavior. In addition to presenting core theory, Ehrenberg and Smith provide empirica... MORE
| Introduction | |
| The Labor Market Labor Economics: Some Basic Concepts Plan of the Text | |
| Statistical Testing of Labor Market Hypotheses | |
| Overview of the Labor Market | |
| The Labor Market: Definitions, Facts, and Trends | |
| How the Labor Market Works Applications of the Theory | |
| The Demand for Labor Profit Maximization | |
| The Short-Run Demand for Labor When Both Product ... MORE | |
| The Demand for Labor in Competitive Markets When Other Inputs | |
| Can Be Varied Labor Demand When the Product Market | |
| Is Not Competitive Policy Application: The Labor Market Effects of Employer Payroll | |
| Taxes and Wage Subsidies | |
| Graphical Derivation of a Firmrsquo;s Labor Demand Curve | |
| Labor Demand Elasticities The Own-Wage Elasticity of Demand | |
| The Cross-Wage Elasticity of Demand Policy Application: Effects of Minimum Wage Laws | |
| Applying Concepts of Labor Demand Elasticity to the Issue of Technological Change | |
| Frictions in the Labor Market Frictions on the Employee Side of the Market | |
| Frictions on the Employer Side of the Market Training Investments Hiring Investments | |
| Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to Work | |
| Trends in Labor Force Participation and Hours of Work | |
| A Theory of the Decision to Work Policy Applications | |
| Labor Supply: Household Production, the Family, and the Life Cycle | |
| The Theory of Household Production A Labor Supply Model that Incorporates | |
| Household Production Joint Labor Supply Decisions within the Household Life-Cycle Aspects of Labor Supply | |
| Compensating Wage Differentials and Labor Markets | |
| Job Matching: The Role of Worker Preferences and Information Hedonic Wage | |
| Theory and the Risk of Injury Hedonic Wage | |
| Theory and Employee Benefits | |
| Compensating Wage Differentials and Layoffs | |
| Investments in Human Capital: Education and Training | |
| Human Capital Investments: The Basic Model | |
| The Demand for a College Education Education, Earnings, and Post-schooling Investments in Human Capital | |
| Is Education a Good Investment? | |
| A ldquo;Cobwebrdquo; Model of Labor Market Adjustment | |
| A Hedonic Model of Earnings and Educational Level(Now available exclusively on the Companion Website ) | |
| Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover | |
| The Determinants of Worker Mobility Geographic Mobility Policy | |
| Application: Restricting Immigration Employee Turnover | |
| Pay and Productivity: Wage Determination Within the Firm Motivating | |
| Workers: An Overview of the Fundamentals Productivity and the Basis of Yearly Pay Productivity and the Level of Pay | |
| Productivity and the Sequencing of Pay | |
| Applications of the Theory: Explaining Two Puzzles | |
| Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market Measured and Unmeasured Sources of Earnings Differences | |
| Theories of Market Discrimination Federal Programs to End Discrimination | |
| Estimating Comparable-Worth Earnings Gaps: An Application of Regression Analysis | |
| Unions and the Labor Market Union Structure and Membership | |
| Constraints on the Achievement of Union Objectives | |
| The Activities and Tools of Collective Bargaining The Effects of Unions | |
| Arbitration and the Bargaining Contract Zone | |
| Unemployment A Stock-Flow Model of the Labor Market Frictional | |
| Unemployment Structural Unemployment Demand-Deficient (Cyclical) Unemployment | |
| Seasonal Unemployment When Do We Have Full Employment? | |
| Inequality in Earnings Measuring Inequalit | |
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