TY - BOOK AU - McConnell,Campbell R. AU - Brue,Stanley L. AU - Macpherson,David A. TI - Contemporary labor economics T2 - The McGraw-Hill series economics SN - 9780073375953 (alk. paper) AV - HD4901 .M15 2010 U1 - 331 MCC PY - 2013/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill Irwin KW - Labor economics KW - SLSH N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview --; The Theory of Individual Labor Supply --; Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work --; Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital --; The Demand for Labor --; Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor --; Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency --; The Wage Structure --; Mobility, Migration, and Efficiency --; Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining --; The Economic Impact of Unions --; Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation --; Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation --; Labor Market Discrimination --; Job Search: External and Internal --; The Distribution of Personal Earnings --; Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Employment --; Employment and Unemployment --; Information Sources in Labor Economics; Economics; Economics N2 - Focuses on labor economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. This title explains that labor economics is no longer an area tangential to the core of analytical economics but rather a critical component of that core. It delivers discussions of public policy issues and offers coverage of the economic crisis UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-labor-economics/oclc/320803002&referer=brief_results ER -