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ISBN 10: 0393979520
ISBN 13: 978-0393979527
Author: Derek Laing
The first text in Labor Economics to systematically cover both classic labor economics and “the new labor economics,” which includes topics like job design, incentives, and modern Human Resources issues.
Labor Economics has comprehensive coverage, and gives instructors the flexibility to tailor their text precisely to the course that they want to teach. The text stresses problem solving, with several Worked Problems in each chapter, and includes leading-edge pedagogy to help students better understand and master the material.
Labor Economics Introduction to Classic & the New 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Methodology
1.2 The Supply adn Demand Framework
1.3 Applications: Supply and Demand Shocks
1.4 Elements of Microeconomics
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 2 The U.S. Labor Market
2.1 Core Concepts I: Populations
2.2 Core Concepts II: Labor Costs
2.3 Core Concepts III: Empirical Aspects of the U.S. Labor Market
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Part I Foundations
Chapter 3 The Short-Run Demand for Labor
3.1 The Neoclassical Labor-Demand Model
3.2 The Constraints
3.3 Perfect Competition and Monopoly Power
3.4 Monopsony
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Technical Appendix 3.A Mathematical Derivations
Chapter 4 The Supply of Labor
4.1 Preferences
4.2 The Constraints
4.3 The Optimal Choice I: Determination
4.4 The Optimal Choice II: Properties
4.5 The Empirical Evidence
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 4.A The Supply of Labor: A Mathematical Approach
Chapter 5 Human Capital
5.1 Human Capital: An Overview
5.2 The Individual Investment Decision
5.3 The Level of Human Capital Investments
5.4 Extensions
5.5 The Return to Investments in Human Captial
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 5.A Econometric Obstacles and Remedies
Chapter 6 On-the-Job Training
6.1 Overview
6.2 The Theory of General and Specific Training
6.3 The Specifics of Specific Human Capital
6.4 The OJT Model: The Evidence
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 6.A Do Wages Rise with Seniority?
Chapter 7 Competitive Equilibrium
7.1 Competitve Equilibrium
7.2 Policy Applications
7.3 Compensating Wage Differentials
7.4 Fringe Benefits
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Part II Applications & Extensions
Chapter 8 Policy Application: The Minimum Wage
8.1 From Perfect Competition to Monopsony
8.2 Offsets, Inequality, and Education
8.3 The Minimum Wage: The U.S. Experience
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 9 Policy Application: The War on Poverty
9.1 The Battlefield: Poverty in the United States
9.2 The Armory
9.3 The Economic Consequences of Five Major Policy Weapons
9.4 The Battle is Joined: Welfare Reforms
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 10 Death and Injury in the U.S. Workplace—A Hedonic Analysis
10.1 The Hedonic Framework I: Building Blocks
10.2 The Hedonic Framework II: Equilibrium
10.3 Death and Cost-Benefit Analysis
10.4 Policy Application: OSHA
10.5 Policy Application: Workers’ Compensation
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 11 Discrimination I: Theory
11.1 Discrimination: An Overview
11.2 Employer Discrimination
11.3 Coworker Discrimination
11.4 Consumer Discrimination
11.5 The Modern Theory of Discrimination
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 12 Discrimination II: Evidence and Policy
12.1 Measuring Discrimination
12.2 Race
12.3 Gender
12.4 Public Policy
12.5 Antidiscrimination Policies: The Evidence
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 12.A Estimation Difficulties
Appendix 12.B Occupational Crowding
Chapter 13 The Hiring Process
13.1 The Economics of Hiring
13.2 Public Information (The Roy Model)
13.3 Asymmetric Information I: Signaling
13.4 Asymmetric Information II: Screening
13.5 Symmetric Information
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 13.A The Theory of Job Market Signaling
Part III The Employment Relation
Chapter 14 Incentives
14.1 Incentives: An Overview
14.2 Risk Sharing and Incentives
14.3 Extensions of the Principal—Agent Framework
14.4 The “You Get What You Pay For” Principle
14.5 Tournaments
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 14.A Risk Sharing and Incentives
Appendix 14.B Relative Performance Pay
Appendix 14.C Multitasking: The Root Cause of the “You Get What You Pay For” Principle
Chapter 15 Tasks, Technologies, and Organizational Design
15.1 Task Assignments
15.2 Organizational Design
15.3 Human-Resource Management
15.4 Hierarchies
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 16 Careers and the Employment Relation
16.1 Internal Labor Markets
16.2 Careers I: Investments
16.3 Careers II: Payments Over Time
16.4 Careers III: The Employment Relationship
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 16.A Ability Shocks and Insurance
Appendix 16.B Model of the Rat Race
Appendix 16.C Implicit or Relational Contracts
Appendix 16.D The Waldman Model
Chapter 17 Executive Pay
17.1 The Evidence
17.2 The Theory of Executive Pay
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 18 Trade Unions I: Density and Impact
18.1 Evidence and Institutional Background
18.2 Union Coverage
18.3 The Economic Impact of Trade Unions
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Part IV The Aggregate Labor Market
Chapter 19 Earnings I: The Wage Structure
19.1 The Distribution of Earnings
19.2 Superstars
19.3 Earnings Inequality: The Evidence
19.4 Explaining the Evolution of Inequality
19.5 Institutional Factors and the SDI Framework
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 20 Labor Mobility I: Migration
20.1 The Individual Migration Decision
20.2 Topics: Risk, Repeat and Return Migration, and Tied Moves
20.3 Regional Migration
20.4 Rural-Urban Migration
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 21 Labor Mobility II: Immigration and Outsourcing
21.1 Immigration and Outsourcing: The Evidence
21.2 Immigration: Labor-Market Effects
21.3 The Assimilation of Immigrants
21.4 Illegal Immigration
21.5 Outsourcing
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 22 Unemployment I: Contractual Frictions
22.1 Unemployment: Concepts, Measurement, and the U.S. Experience
22.2 The Theory of Unemployment
22.3 Efficiency Wage Models
22.4 Other Models of Unemployment
22.5 Wage Rigidity: The Empirical Evidence
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 22.A Implicit Contracts
Chapter 23 Unemployment II: Market Frictions
23.1 The Flow Approach to Labor Markets
23.2 Worker and Job Flows: The Evidence
23.3 The Stock–Flow Approach: Steady-State Unemployment
23.4 Matching
23.5 Job Destruction
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 24 Turnover I: Job Search and Accessions
24.1 Search Activity
24.2 Extensions of the Simple Search Model
24.3 Wage Determination
24.4 Accessions: Search Methods
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Problems
Appendix 24.A The Reservation Wage
Chapter 25 Turnover II: Quits and Layoffs
25.1 Turnover: Evidence and Intrepration
25.2 Efficient Seperations
25.3 Displaced Workers: The Evidence
25.4 Displaced Workers: Theory
25.5 Easing the Burden of Worker Displacements
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