Labor economics and labor relations
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Labor economics and labor relations
Prentice Hall, c1998
11th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A classic exploration of how labor markets are influenced by economic forces and the legal and institutional framework as well as an analysis of their interactions.* NEW - Includes a new chapter on policies to combat labor-market discrimination. * NEW - Presents important new information covering welfare reform, minimum wage legislation, unemployment insurance, education reform, and immigration. * NEW - Includes a new chapter on the Japanese and German systems of industrial relations and the influence these have had on our own. * Also discusses in detail the decline of mass production methods and the shift towards flexible production in both services and manufacturing. * NEW - Includes a new chapter on internal labor markets, featuring a section on human resource management. * NEW - Devotes an entire half chapter to the increasing inequality in earnings. *Includes a chapter on policies to combat labour-market discrimination. *Presents important new information covering welfare reform, minimum wage legislation, unemployment insurance, education reform, and immigration.
*Includes a chapter on the Japanese and German systems of industrial relations and the influence these have had on our own.
Table of Contents
1. Labor Economics: Institutions and the Market.
2. A First Look at Labor Markets.
3. Labor Supply Decisions.
4. Labor Demand.
5. Human Capital: Education and Job Training.
6. Real Wage Rates, Productivity, and Inequality.
7. Inequality and Discrimination.
8. Equal Employment Opportunity: Policies and Controversies.
9. Unemployment.
10. American Workers in a World Economy.
11. The Changing Workplace: Comparisons Across Countries.
12. Internal Labor Markets.
13. Compensation.
14. An Introduction to Unions.
15. Unions, Politics, and the Law.
16. Bargaining.
17. Union Effects.
18. Labor Issues: Past, Present, and Future.
Glossary of Concepts.
Index.
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