Contemporary labor economics
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Contemporary labor economics
Irwin/McGraw-Hill, c1999
5th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780070460409
Description
The focus of this textbook is upon labour economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. The authors assert that labour economics has become a critical part of the core of analytical economics and not merely tangential.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Economics: introduction and overview. Part 2 The theory of individual labour supply. Part 3 Population, participation rates, and hours of work. Part 4 Labour quality: investing in human capital. Part 5 The demand for labour. Part 7 Alternative pay schemes and labour efficiency. Part 8 The wage structure. Part 9 Mobility, migration and efficiency. Part 10 Labour unions and collective bargaining. Part 11 The economic impact of unions. Part 12 Government and the labour market - employment, expenditure and taxation. Part 13 Government and the labour market: legislation and regulation. Part 14 Theories of labour market discrimination. Part 15 Women, blacks and the labour market. Part 16 Job search: external and internal. Part 17 The personal distribution of earnings. Part 18 labour productivity -wages, prices, and unemployment. Part 19 Employment and unemployment.
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: pbk ISBN 9780071165549
Description
The focus of this textbook is upon labour economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. The authors assert that labour economics has become a critical part of the core of analytical economics and not merely tangential.
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