Modern labor economics : theory and public policy /
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Modern labor economics : theory and public policy / Ronald G. Ehrenberg , Robert S. Smith. - Tenth edition - Boston : Pearson/Addison Wesley, [2009] - xxi, 650 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - The Addison-Wesley series in economics .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Chapter 1 Introduction --
chapter 2 Overview of the Labor Market --
chapter 3 The Demand for Labor --
chapter 4 Labor Demand Elasticities --
chapter 5 Frictions in the Labor Market --
chapter 6 Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to Work --
chapter 7 Labor Supply: Household Production, the Family, and the Life Cycle --
chapter 8 Compensating Wage Differentials and Labor Markets --
chapter 9 Investments in Human Capital: Education and Training --
chapter 10 Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover --
chapter 11 Pay and Productivity: Wage Determination Within the Firm --
chapter 12 Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market --
chapter 13 Unions and the Labor Market --
chapter 14 Unemployment --
chapter 15 Inequality in Earnings --
chapter 16 The Labor-Market Effects of International Trade and Production Sharing.
Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its thirteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
9780321538963 032153896x
2008000387
Labor economics.
Labor policy.
Personnel management.
331 / E.R.M.
Modern labor economics : theory and public policy / Ronald G. Ehrenberg , Robert S. Smith. - Tenth edition - Boston : Pearson/Addison Wesley, [2009] - xxi, 650 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - The Addison-Wesley series in economics .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Chapter 1 Introduction --
chapter 2 Overview of the Labor Market --
chapter 3 The Demand for Labor --
chapter 4 Labor Demand Elasticities --
chapter 5 Frictions in the Labor Market --
chapter 6 Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to Work --
chapter 7 Labor Supply: Household Production, the Family, and the Life Cycle --
chapter 8 Compensating Wage Differentials and Labor Markets --
chapter 9 Investments in Human Capital: Education and Training --
chapter 10 Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover --
chapter 11 Pay and Productivity: Wage Determination Within the Firm --
chapter 12 Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market --
chapter 13 Unions and the Labor Market --
chapter 14 Unemployment --
chapter 15 Inequality in Earnings --
chapter 16 The Labor-Market Effects of International Trade and Production Sharing.
Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its thirteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
9780321538963 032153896x
2008000387
Labor economics.
Labor policy.
Personnel management.
331 / E.R.M.