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| Note: Each chapter concludes with a Summay, Key Terms, and Problems | |
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| The Study of Labor Economics | |
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| The Scope of Labor Economics | |
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| The Method of Labor Economics | |
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| The Plan of This Book | |
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| Appendix: Regression Analysis | |
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| The Demand for Labor | |
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| The Production Function | |
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| The Marginal Product of Labor | |
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| The Short-Run Demand for Labor | |
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| The Demand for Labor in the Long-Run | |
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| Appendix: Technological Change and Labor Demand | |
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| Topics in Labor Demand Elasticities | |
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| How Elastic Is the Demand for Labor? | |
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| Extensions and Embellishments of Marginal Productivity Theory | |
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| Appendix: A Test of the Marginal Productivity Theory: A Cobb-Douglas Exercise | |
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| The Supply of Labor: Labor Force | |
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| Participation International Labor Force Participation | |
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| The Theory of Labor Force | |
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| Participation for an Individual | |
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| The Theory of Labor Force | |
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| Participation for Groups Applications of the Theory | |
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| The Supply of Labor: Hours of Work | |
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| The History of Working Hours | |
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| Worker Preferences and Hours Worked | |
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| The Theory of Hours of Work for an Individual | |
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| Applications of the Theory | |
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| Variations on the Wage | |
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| Line Welfare Programs and Labor Supply | |
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| Some Extensions of the Individual | |
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| Model Empirical Evidence on Labor Supply Elasticities | |
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| Human Capital Analysis | |
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| Some Background Education and Age-Earnings Profiles | |
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| Calculating the Returns to Education | |
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| The Evidence Bias in Rate of Return Estimates | |
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| General Versus Specific Human Capital Externalities, Equity, and Subsidies | |
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| Human Capital and Mobility | |
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| Labor Market Equilibrium | |
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| Equilibrium in a Single Labor | |
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| Market Equilibrium across Different Labor | |
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| Markets Empirical Studies of Wage Differentials | |
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| International Trade and Relative Wages | |
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| Information and Job Search | |
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| The Fixed Sample Search Model | |
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| The Sequential Search Model | |
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| Matching Models | |
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| Equilibrium Search Models | |
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| The Duration of Unemployment and the Hazard Function | |
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| Labor Mobility | |
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| Job Search Methods and Results | |
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| Monopsony and Minimum Wages | |
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| Wage and Employment Determination under Conditions of Monopsony | |
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| Where Does Monopsony Exist? | |
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| Minimum Wages Empirical Evidence on the Employment Effect of Minimum Wages | |
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| Other Effects of the Minimum Wage | |
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| Internal Labor Markets | |
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| The Characteristics of ILMs | |
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| The Evolution of ILMs in the United States | |
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| ILMs and Firm Efficiency | |
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| Implications of ILMs for Labor Analysis | |
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| Personnel Economics | |
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| Motivating Worker | |
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| Effort Work-Life Incentive Schemes | |
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| Other Wage Policy Models | |
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| Unions and Collective Bargaining | |
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| A Profile of Unionism in the United States | |
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| Unionism in Other Countries | |
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| Theories of Union | |
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| Growth Union | |
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| Goals and Objectives | |
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| Union Monopoly Models | |
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| Union Bargaining Power and Strikes | |
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| The Effects of Unions | |
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| Labor Market Discrimination | |
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| The Many Faces of Labor Market Discrimination | |
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| Gender and Racial Differences in Labor Markets | |
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| Theories of Labor | |
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| Market Discrimination | |
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| Measuring the Effect of Discrimination on Pay Gaps | |
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| What Does the Research Show? | |
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| Anti-Discrimination Policies | |
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| The Effects of Anti-Discrimination Policies | |
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| Unemployment Measures of Unemployment | |
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| The Natural Rate of Unemployment | |
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| Fluctuations around the Natural Rate | |
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| A Model of the Aggregate Labor Market | |
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| Unemployment Policy: The OECD Jobs Strategy | |
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| Wage Inequality, Income Inequality and Poverty Wage Inequality and Labor Market Performance | |
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| Measuring Inequality | |
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| Trends in Wage Inequality | |
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| Causes of Increased Wage | |
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| Inequality From Wage | |
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| Inequality to Income | |
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| Inequality Poverty | |
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| Policy Options | |