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Modern labor economics : theory and public policy
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- Creator
- Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Robert S. Smith
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Ninth edition
- Boston : Pearson/Addison Wesley, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xx, 604 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780321305039, 0321305035
- OCLC
- ocm57143241
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Introduction -- Overview of the labor market -- The demand for labor -- Labor demand elasticities -- Frictions in the labor market -- Supply of labor to the economy: the decision to work -- Labor supply: household production, the family, and the life cycle -- Compensating wage differentials and labor markets -- Investments in human capital: education and training -- Worker mobility: migration, immigration, and turnover -- Pay and productivity: wage determination within the firm -- Gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market -- Unions and the labor market -- Inequality in earnings -- Unemployment