Modern labor economics :

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.

Modern labor economics : theory and public policy / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Robert S. Smith. - 9th ed. - Boston : Pearson/Addison Wesley, c2006. - xx, 604 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The Addison-Wesley series in economics . - Addison-Wesley series in economics. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- The Labor Market -- Labor Economics: Some Basic Concepts -- Plan of the Text -- 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 and Labor Markets Are Competitive -- The Demand for Labor in Competitive Markets When Other Inputs Can Be Varied -- Labor Demand When the Product Market Is Not Competitive -- Monopsony in the Labor Market -- Policy Application: The Labor Market Effects of Employer Payroll Taxes and Wage Subsidies -- 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 -- Quasi-Fixed Labor Costs and Their Effects on Demand -- Nonwage Labor Costs -- The Employment/Hours Trade-off -- Firms' Labor Investments and the Demand for Labor -- General and Specific Training -- 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 -- The Tripartite Choice: Market Work, Household Work, and Leisure -- Joint Labor Supply Decisions within the Household -- Life-Cycle Aspects of Labor Supply -- Policy Application: Child Care and 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 -- Investments in Human Capital: Education and Training -- Human Capital Investments: The Basic Model -- The Demand for a College Education -- Education, Earnings, and Postschooling Investments in Human Capital -- Is Education a Good Investment? -- Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover -- The Determinants of Worker Mobility -- Geographic Mobility -- Policy Application: Restricting Immigration -- Employee Turnover and Job Matching -- 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 Three 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 -- 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 -- Inequality in Earnings -- Measuring Inequality -- Earnings Inequality since 1980: Some Descriptive Data -- The Underlying Causes of Growing Inequality -- International Comparisons of Changing Inequality -- 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? Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15.

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Labor economics.
Labor policy.
Personnel management.
Arbeidseconomie.
Beleid.

HD4901 / .E34 2006

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