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| Introduction to Labor Economics | |
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| An Economic Story of the Labor Market | |
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| The Actors in the Labor Market | |
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| Why Do We Need a Theory? | |
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| The Organization of the Book | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| An Introduction to Regression Analysis | |
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| Labor Supply | |
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| Measuring the Labor Force | |
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| Basic Facts about Labor Supply | |
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| The Worker's Preferences | |
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| The Budget Constraint | |
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| The Hours of Work Decision | |
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| To Work or Not to Work? | |
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| The Labor Supply Curve | |
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| Estimates of the Labor Supply Elasticity | |
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| Labor Supply of Women | |
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| Policy Application: Welfare Programs and Work Incentives | |
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| Policy Application: The Earned Income Tax Credit | |
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| Theory at Work: Dollars and Dreams | |
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| Theory at Work: Winning the Lotto Will Change Your Life | |
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| Theory at Work: Work and Leisure in Europe and the United States | |
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| Theory at Work: The Laffer Curve | |
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| Theory at Work: Female Labor Supply and Economic Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Topics in Labor Supply | |
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| Labor Supply over the Life Cycle | |
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| Labor Supply over the Business Cycle | |
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| Retirement | |
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| Policy Application: The Decline in Work Attachment among Older Workers | |
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| Household Production | |
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| Fertility | |
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| Theory at Work: Cabbies in New York City | |
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| Theory at Work: The Notch Babies | |
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| Theory at Work: Poor Relief and Fertility | |
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| Theory at Work: Not-So-Fast Times at Ridgemont High | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Labor Demand | |
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| The Production Function | |
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| The Employment Decision in the Short Run | |
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| The Employment Decision in the Long Run | |
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| The Long-Run Demand Curve for Labor | |
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| The Elasticity of Substitution | |
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| Policy Application: Affirmative Action and Production Costs | |
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| Marshall's Rules of Derived Demand | |
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| Factor Demand with Many Inputs | |
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| Overview of Labor Market Equilibrium | |
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| Policy Application: The Employment Effects of Minimum Wages 13 4-11 Adjustment Costs and Labor Demand | |
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| Rosie the Riveter as an Instrumental Variable | |
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| Theory at Work: California's Overtime Regulations and Labor Demand | |
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| Theory at Work: The Minimum Wage and Puerto Rican Migration | |
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| Theory at Work: Work-Sharing in Germany | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Labor Market Equilibrium | |
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| Equilibrium in a Single Competitive Labor Market | |
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| Competitive Equilibrium across Labor Markets | |
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| Policy Application: Payroll Taxes and Subsidies | |
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| Policy Application: Payroll Taxes versus Mandated Benefits | |
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| Policy Application: The Labor Market Impact of Immigration | |
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| The Economic Benefits from Immigration | |
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| The Cobweb Model | |
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| Noncompetitive Labor Markets: Monopsony | |
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| Noncompetitive Labor Markets: Monopoly | |
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| Theory at Work: The Intifadah and Palestinian Wages | |
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| Theory at Work: The Clinton Health Care Program | |
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| Theory at Work: The Great Black Migration | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Compensating Wage Differentials | |
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| The Market for Risky Jobs | |
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| The Hedonic Wage Function | |
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| Policy Application: How Much Is a Life Worth? | |
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| Policy Application: Safety and Health Regulations | |
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| Compensating Differentials and Job Amenities | |
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| Policy Application: Health Insurance and the Labor Market | |
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| Theory at Work: The Value of Life on the Interstate | |
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| Theory at Work: Workers' Compensation May Be Hazardous to Your Health | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Human Capital | |
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| Education in the Labor Market: Some Stylized Facts | |
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| Present Value | |
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| The Schooling Model | |
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| Education and Earnings | |
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| Estimating the Rate of Return to Schooling | |
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| Policy Application: School Construction in Indonesia | |
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| Policy Application: School Quality and Earnings | |
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| Do Workers Maximize Lifetime Earnings? | |
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| Schooling as a Signal | |
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| Post-School Human Capital Investments | |
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| On-the-Job Training | |
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| On-the-Job Training and the Age-Earnings Profile | |
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| Policy Application: Evaluating Government Training Programs | |
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| Theory at Work: Can We Afford to Improve the Skills of High School Dropouts? | |
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| Theory at Work: Is the GED Better Than Nothing? | |
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| Theory at Work: Earnings and Substance Abuse | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| The Wage Structure | |
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| The Earnings Distribution | |
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| Measuring Inequality | |
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| The Wage Structure: Basic Facts | |
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| Policy Application: Why Did Wage Inequality Increase? | |
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| The Earnings of Superstars | |
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| Inequality across Generations | |
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| Theory at Work: Computers, Pencils, and the Wage Structure | |
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| Theory at Work: Rock Superstars | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Labor Mobility | |
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| Geographic Migration as a Human Capital Investment | |
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| Internal Migration in the United States | |
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| Family Migration | |
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| Immigration in the United States | |
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| Immigrant Performance in the U.S. Labor Market | |
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| The Decision to Immigrate | |
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| Policy Application: Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants | |
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| Job Turnover: Facts | |
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| The Job Match | |
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| Specific Training and Job Turnover | |
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| Job Turnover and the Age-Earnings Profile | |
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| Theory at Work: Migration and EU Expansion | |
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| Theory at Work: Power Couples | |
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| Theory at Work: Visas Available (If You Pass a Test or Pay Up!) 344 Theory at Work: Hey Dad, My Roommate Is So Smart, I Got a 4.0 GPA | |
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| Theory at Work: Health Insurance and Job-Lock | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Labor Market Discrimination | |
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| Race and Gender in the Labor Market | |
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| The Discrimination Coefficient | |
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| Employer Discrimination | |
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| Employee Discrimination | |
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| Customer Discrimination | |
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| Statistical Discrimination | |
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| Experimental Evidence on Discrimination | |
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| Measuring Discrimination | |
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| Policy Application: Determinants of the Black-White Wage Ratio | |
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| Discrimination against Other Groups | |
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| Policy Application: Determinants of the Female-Male Wage Ratio | |
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| Theory at Work: Beauty and the Beast | |
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| Theory at Work: Customer Discrimination and the NBA | |
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| Theory at Work: Discrimination on the Weakest Link | |
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| Theory at Work: Shades of Black | |
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| Theory at Work: Orchestrating Impartiality | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Labor Unions | |
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| Unions: Background and Facts | |
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| Determinants of Union Membership | |
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| Monopoly Unions | |
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| Policy Application: Unions and Resource Allocation | |
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| Efficient Bargaining | |
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| Strikes | |
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| Union Wage Effects | |
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| The Exit-Voice Hypothesis | |
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| Policy Application: Public-Sector Unions | |
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| Theory at Work: The Rise and Fall of PATCO | |
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| Theory at Work: The Cost of Labor Disputes | |
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| Theory at Work: Airline Deregulation and the Wages of Airline Mechanics | |
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| Theory at Work: Lawyers and Arbitration | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Incentive Pay | |
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| Piece Rates and Time Rates | |
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| Tournaments | |
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| Policy Application: The Compensation of Executives | |
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| Work Incentives and Delayed Compensation | |
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| Efficiency Wages | |
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| Theory at Work: Windshields by the Piece | |
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| Theory at Work: Incentive Pay Gets You to LAX on Time | |
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| Theory at Work: Playing Hard for the Money | |
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| Theory at Work: Did Henry Ford Pay Efficiency Wages? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Unemployment | |
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| Unemployment in the United States | |
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| Types of Unemployment | |
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| The Steady-State Rate of Unemployment | |
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| Job Search | |
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| Policy Application: Unemployment Compensation | |
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| The Intertemporal Substitution Hypothesis | |
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| The Sectoral Shifts Hypothesis | |
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| Efficiency Wages | |
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| Implicit Contracts | |
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| Policy Application: The Phillips Curve | |
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| Policy Application: Why Does Europe Have High Unemployment? | |
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| Theory at Work: Jobs and Friends | |
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| Theory at Work: Cash Bonuses and Unemployment | |
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| Theory at Work: The Benefits of UI | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |