Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy (GE) 12/e

　　1.Eight new Boxed Examples in the Twelfth Edition address engaging topics such as the “Big Mac” real-wage index, how housing subsidies affect labor supply, the effects of linguistics on personal discount rates, and the effects of race on called strikes in baseball.

　　2.An expanded treatment of the labor-market effects of immigration in Chapter 10 ties into the growing debate on unauthorized immigration, one of today’s hot-button issues. The chapter now includes analysis of the elasticity of the labor demand curve and the economic effects of low-skilled immigration on higher-skilled workers.

　　3.An enhanced discussion of human capital investments in Chapter 9 offers a more detailed analysis of how “behavioral skills,” psychic costs of learning, and personal discount rates affect the returns to education. These issues are highly relevant to students as they look ahead to their future careers.
 

作者簡介

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

　　任職：Cornell University

Robert S. Smith

　　任職：Cornell University

Ch 1. Introduction
Ch 2. Overview of the Labor Market
Ch 3. The Demand for Labor
Ch 4. Labor Demand Elasticities
Ch 5. Frictions in the Labor Market
Ch 6. Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to Work
Ch 7. Labor Supply: Household Production, the Family, and the Life Cycle
Ch 8. Compensating Wage Differentials and Labor Markets
Ch 9. Investments in Human Capital: Education and Training
Ch10. Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover
Ch11. Pay and Productivity: Wage Determination Within the Firm
Ch12. Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market
Ch13. Unions and the Labor Market
Ch14. Unemployment
Ch15. Inequality in Earnings
Ch16. The Labor-Market Effects of International Trade and Production Sharing