Contemporary Labor Economics / Edition 10

by Campbell McConnell, Stanley Brue, David Macpherson

Overview

Contemporary Labor Economics 11e presents labor economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory, no longer an area tangential to the core of analytical economics, but rather a critical component of that core. In the Eleventh edition, the authors deliver new and updated discussions of public policy issues and coverage of the current economic crisis, while still integrating traditional topics such as labor law, structure of unions, and collective bargaining.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780078021763
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	01/02/2013
Edition description:	List
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Stanley L. Brue did his undergraduate work at Augustana College (South Dakota) and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1991. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University, where he has been honored as a recipient of the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award. Professor Brue has also received the national Leavey Award for excellence in economic education. He has served as national president and chair of the Board of Trustees of Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Honorary. He is coauthor of Economic Scenes, Fifth edition (Prentice-Hall), Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and The Evolution of Economic Thought, Seventh edition (South-Western).

Campbell R. McConnell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa after receiving degrees from Cornell College and the University of Illinois. He taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1953 until his retirement in 1990. He is also coauthor of Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, and Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and has edited readers for the principles and labor economics courses. He is a recipient of both the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award and the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award, and is past-president of the Midwest Economics Association. Professor McConnell was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Cornell College in 1973 and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1994.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2: The Theory of Individual Labor Supply
Chapter 3: Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work
Chapter 4: Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital
Chapter 5: The Demand for Labor
Chapter 6: Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor
Chapter 7: Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency
Chapter 8: The Wage Structure
Chapter 9: Mobility, Migration, and Efficiency
Chapter 10: Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining
Chapter 11: The Economic Impact of Unions
Chapter 12: Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation
Chapter 13: Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation
Chapter 14: Labor Market Discrimination
Chapter 15: Job Search: External and Internal
Chapter 16: The Distribution of Personal Earnings
Chapter 17: Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Employment
Chapter 18: Employment and Unemployment
Glossary
Index