Modern labor economics : theory and public policy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Pearson/Addison Wesley,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 9th ed. |
| Series: | The Addison-Wesley series in economics
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Table of Contents:
- Overview of the labor market
- The demand for labor
- Labor demand elasticities
- Frictions in the labor market
- Supply of labor to the economy: the decision to work
- Labor supply: household production, the family, and the life cycle
- Compensating wage differentials and labor markets
- Investments in human capital: education and training
- Worker mobility: migration, immigration, and turnover
- Pay and productivity: wage determination within the firm
- Gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market
- Unions and the labor market
- Inequality in earnings
- Unemployment.