Modern labor economics
Subtitle: theory and public policy
By: Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Robert S. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Robert Stewart.
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 604
Subjects: Labor economics.; Labor policy.; Personnel management.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Overview of the labor market; title: The demand for labor; title: Labor demand elasticities; title: Quasi-fixed labor costs and their effects on demand; title: Supply of labor to the economy: the decision to work; title: Labor supply: household production; title: 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: Inequality in earnings; title: Unemployment.