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010			_a 98029110
020			_a007046040X (alk. paper)
020			_a9780071165549
040			_aFUE _cDLC _dDLC _beng _erda
082	0	0	_a331 _221 _bM.C.C.
100	1		_aMcConnell, Campbell R. _94159 _eauthor
245	1	0	_aContemporary labor economics / _cCampbell R. McConnell , Stanely L. Brue , David A. Macpherson.
250			_aFifth edition
264		1	_aBoston : _bIrwin/McGraw-Hill, _c[1999]
264		4	_a©1999.
300			_axix, 649 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505		0	_aCover -- Title -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Connect -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview -- Labor Economics as a Discipline -- The "Old" and the "New" -- Economic Perspective -- World of Work 1.1: Gary Becker: Nobel Laureate -- Overview -- Payoffs -- Chapter 2 The Theory of Individual Labor Supply -- The Work-Leisure Decision: Basic Model -- World of Work 2.1: Work Hours Linked to Pollution -- World of Work 2.2: Labor Supply of Politicians -- Applying and Extending the Model World of Work 2.3: The Labor Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery Prize -- World of Work 2.4: Labor Supply of Florida Lobster Fishermen -- World of Work 2.5: The Labor Supply Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit -- Chapter 3 Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work -- The Population Base -- Becker's Model: The Allocation of Time -- World of Work 3.1: The Changing Face of America -- World of Work 3.2: Video Gaming and the Decline in Labor Supply of Young Men -- Participation Rates: Defined and Measured -- Secular Trend of Participation Rates -- World of Work 3.3: The Power of the Pill World of Work 3.4: Why Do So Few Women Work in New York and So Many in Minneapolis? -- World of Work 3.5: The Opioid Crisis and the Decline in Labor Force Participation -- Cyclic Changes in Participation Rates -- Hours of Work: Two Trends -- World of Work 3.6: Time Stress -- Chapter 4 Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital -- Investment in Human Capital: Concept and Data -- The Human Capital Model -- World of Work 4.1: Recessions and the College Enrollment Rate -- World of Work 4.2: What Is a GED Worth? -- World of Work 4.3: Higher Education: Making the Right Choices Human Capital Investment and the Distribution of Earnings -- World of Work 4.4: What You Did in High School Matters -- World of Work 4.5: Reversal of the College Gender Gap -- On-the-Job Training -- Criticisms of Human Capital Theory -- World of Work 4.6: College as Country Club -- World of Work 4.7: Is There More to College than Money? -- Chapter 5 The Demand for Labor -- Derived Demand for Labor -- A Firm's Short-Run Production Function -- Short-Run Demand for Labor: The Perfectly Competitive Seller -- Short-Run Demand for Labor: The Imperfectly Competitive Seller The Long-Run Demand for Labor -- World of Work 5.1: Has Health Care Reform Increased Involuntary Part-Time Work? -- The Market Demand for Labor -- World of Work 5.2: Why Has Manufacturing Employment Fallen? -- World of Work 5.3: Comparative Advantage and the Demand for Labor -- Elasticity of Labor Demand -- Determinants of Demand for Labor -- World of Work 5.4: Ahead of the Pack: Veterinary Occupations are Growing Fast -- Real-World Applications -- World of Work 5.5: Occupational Employment Trends -- Appendix: Isoquant-Isocost Analysis of the Long-Run Demand for Labor -- Isoquant Curves
520			_aThe focus of this textbook is upon labour economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. The authors assert that labour economics has become a critical part of the core of analytical economics and not merely tangential.
650		0	_aLabor economics.
700	1		_aBrue, Stanley L., _d1945- _94161 _ejoint author
700	1		_aMacpherson, David A., _d1960- _94162 _ejoint author
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh023/98029110.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/mh022/98029110.html
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