TY - BOOK AU - McConnell, Campbell R. AU - Brue, Stanley L.;Macpherson, David A. TI - Contemporary labor economics SN - 9780070460409 AV - HD 4901 .M15 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Boston, Massachusetts PB - Irwin Inc. KW - LABOR ECONOMics N1 - Includes index; Labor economics : introduction and overview -- The theory of individual labor supply -- Population, participation rates, and hours of work -- Labor quality : investing in human capital -- The demand for labor -- Wage determination and the allocation of labor --Alternative pay schemes and labor efficiency -- the wage structure -- Mobility, migration, and efficiency -- Labor unions and collective bargaining -- The economic impact of unions -- Government and the labor market : employment, expenditures, and taxation -- Government and the labor market : legislation and regulation -- Theories of labor market discrimination -- Women, blacks, and the labor market -- Job search : external and internal -- The personal distribution of earnings -- Labor productivity : wages, prices and employment -- Employment and unemployment N2 - The focus of this textbook is upon labour economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. The authors assert that labour economics has become a critical part of the core of analytical economics and not merely tangential ER -