Modern labor economics : theory and public policy /

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,

Modern labor economics : theory and public policy / Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Robert S. Smith. - Thirteenth Edition. - New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. - xx, 768 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Revised edition of the authors' Modern labor economics, [2015]


Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2 Overview of the Labor MarketCHAPTER 3 The Demand for LaborCHAPTER 4 Labor Demand ElasticitiesCHAPTER 5 Frictions in the Labor MarketCHAPTER 6 Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to WorkCHAPTER 7 Labor Supply: Household Production, the Family, and the Life CycleCHAPTER 8 Compensating Wage Differentials and Labor MarketsCHAPTER 9 Investments in Human Capital: Education and TrainingCHAPTER 10 Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and TurnoverCHAPTER 11 Pay and Productivity: Wage Determination within the FirmCHAPTER 12 Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor MarketCHAPTER 13 Unions and the Labor MarketCHAPTER 14 UnemploymentCHAPTER 15 Inequality in EarningsCHAPTER 16 The Labor-Market Effects of International Trade and Production Sharing

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