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020 _a9780070460409
040 _cNULRC
050 _aHD 4901 .M15 1999
100 _aMcConnell, Campbell R.
_eauthor
245 0 _aContemporary labor economics /
_cCampbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, and David A. Macpherson
250 _aFifth edtion
260 _aBoston, Massachusetts :
_bIrwin Inc.,
_cc1999
300 _axix, 649 pages ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes index.
505 _aLabor 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
520 _aThe 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.
650 _aLABOR ECONOMics
700 _aBrue, Stanley L.;Macpherson, David A.
_eco-author;co-author
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_cBK
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