TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
AU  - Smith,Robert Stewart
TI  - Modern labor economics: theory and public policy 
T2  - The Addison-Wesley series in economics
SN  - 0321305035
AV  - HD4901 .E34 2006
U1  - 331 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Pearson/Addison Wesley
KW  - Labor economics
KW  - Labor policy
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - Arbeidseconomie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Beleid
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Chapter 1; Introduction --; The Labor Market --; Labor Economics: Some Basic Concepts --; Plan of the Text --; Chapter 2; Overview of the Labor Market --; The Labor Market: Definitions, Facts, and Trends --; How the Labor Market Works --; Applications of the Theory --; Chapter 3; 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 --; Chapter 4; 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 --; Chapter 5; 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 --; Chapter 6; 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 --; Chapter 7; 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 --; Chapter 8; 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 --; Chapter 9; 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? --; Chapter 10; Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover --; The Determinants of Worker Mobility --; Geographic Mobility --; Policy Application: Restricting Immigration --; Employee Turnover and Job Matching --; Chapter 11; 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 --; Chapter 12; Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market --; Measured and Unmeasured Sources of Earnings Differences --; Theories of Market Discrimination --; Federal Programs to End Discrimination --; Chapter 13; 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 --; Chapter 14; Inequality in Earnings --; Measuring Inequality --; Earnings Inequality since 1980: Some Descriptive Data --; The Underlying Causes of Growing Inequality --; International Comparisons of Changing Inequality --; Chapter 15; 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?
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004028156.html
ER  -