Modern labor economics
Subtitle: theory and public policy
By: Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Robert S. Smith
Contributors: Smith, Robert Stewart
Edition: Eleventh ed.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9780132540643
Subjects: Labor policy; Labor economics; Personnel management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of the labor market; title: The demand for labor; title: Labor demand elasticities; title: Frictions in the labor market; title: Supply of labor to the economy : the decision to work; title: Labor supply : household production, the family, and the life cycle; title: Compensating wage differentials and labor markets; title: Investments in human capital : education and training; title: Worker mobility : migration, immigration, and turnover; title: Pay and productivity : wage determination within the firm; title: Gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market; title: Unions and the labor market; title: Unemployment; title: Inequality in earnings; title: The labor-market effects of international trade and production sharing.