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| Introduction | |
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| The Labor Market Labor Economics: Some Basic Concepts Plan of the Text | |
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| Statistical Testing of Labor Market Hypotheses | |
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| Overview of the Labor Market | |
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| The Labor Market: Definitions, Facts, and Trends | |
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| How the Labor Market Works Applications of the Theory | |
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| The Demand for Labor Profit Maximization | |
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| The Short-Run Demand for Labor When Both Product and Labor Markets Are Competitive | |
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| The Demand for Labor in Competitive Markets When Other Inputs | |
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| Can Be Varied Labor Demand When the Product Market | |
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| Is Not Competitive Policy Application: The Labor Market Effects of Employer Payroll | |
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| Taxes and Wage Subsidies | |
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| Graphical Derivation of a Firmrsquo;s Labor Demand Curve | |
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| Labor Demand Elasticities The Own-Wage Elasticity of Demand | |
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| The Cross-Wage Elasticity of Demand Policy Application: Effects of Minimum Wage Laws | |
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| Applying Concepts of Labor Demand Elasticity to the Issue of Technological Change | |
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| Frictions in the Labor Market Frictions on the Employee Side of the Market | |
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| Frictions on the Employer Side of the Market Training Investments Hiring Investments | |
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| Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to Work | |
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| Trends in Labor Force Participation and Hours of Work | |
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| A Theory of the Decision to Work Policy Applications | |
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| Labor Supply: Household Production, the Family, and the Life Cycle | |
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| The Theory of Household Production A Labor Supply Model that Incorporates | |
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| Household Production Joint Labor Supply Decisions within the Household Life-Cycle Aspects of Labor Supply | |
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| Compensating Wage Differentials and Labor Markets | |
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| Job Matching: The Role of Worker Preferences and Information Hedonic Wage | |
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| Theory and the Risk of Injury Hedonic Wage | |
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| Theory and Employee Benefits | |
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| Compensating Wage Differentials and Layoffs | |
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| Investments in Human Capital: Education and Training | |
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| Human Capital Investments: The Basic Model | |
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| The Demand for a College Education Education, Earnings, and Post-schooling Investments in Human Capital | |
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| Is Education a Good Investment? | |
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| A ldquo;Cobwebrdquo; Model of Labor Market Adjustment | |
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| A Hedonic Model of Earnings and Educational Level(Now available exclusively on the Companion Website ) | |
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| Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover | |
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| The Determinants of Worker Mobility Geographic Mobility Policy | |
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| Application: Restricting Immigration Employee Turnover | |
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| Pay and Productivity: Wage Determination Within the Firm Motivating | |
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| Workers: An Overview of the Fundamentals Productivity and the Basis of Yearly Pay Productivity and the Level of Pay | |
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| Productivity and the Sequencing of Pay | |
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| Applications of the Theory: Explaining Two Puzzles | |
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| Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market Measured and Unmeasured Sources of Earnings Differences | |
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| Theories of Market Discrimination Federal Programs to End Discrimination | |
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| Estimating Comparable-Worth Earnings Gaps: An Application of Regression Analysis | |
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| Unions and the Labor Market Union Structure and Membership | |
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| Constraints on the Achievement of Union Objectives | |
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| The Activities and Tools of Collective Bargaining The Effects of Unions | |
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| Arbitration and the Bargaining Contract Zone | |
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| Unemployment A Stock-Flow Model of the Labor Market Frictional | |
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| Unemployment Structural Unemployment Demand-Deficient (Cyclical) Unemployment | |
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| Seasonal Unemployment When Do We Have Full Employment? | |
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| Inequality in Earnings Measuring Inequalit | |