Contemporary Labor Economics
ISBN: 9780073375953 | 0073375950
Edition: 9thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Pub. Date: 9/8/2009
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Contemporary Labor Economics, 9e presents the "new" labor economics in a readable and logical fashion. The authors' focus in this edition is clearly on labor economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. This volume is based on the assumption that labor economics is no longer an area tangential to the core of analytical economics but rather a critical component of that core. However, since traditional topics such as labor law, structure of unions, and collective bargaining also play an important role in labor markets, they are also p... MORE
| Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview | |
| The Theory of Individual Labor Supply | |
| Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work | |
| Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital | |
| The Demand for Labor | |
| Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor | |
| Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency | |
| The Wage Structure | |
| Mobility, Migration, ... MORE | |
| Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining | |
| The Economic Impact of Unions | |
| Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation | |
| Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation | |
| Labor Market Discrimination | |
| Job Search: External and Internal | |
| The Distribution of Personal Earning | |
| Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Employment | |
| Employment and Unemployment | |
| Appendix: Information Sources in Labor Economics | |
| Glossary | |
| Answers to "Your Turn" Questions | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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