The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, Third Edition (eBook)

Tito Boeri, Jan Van Ours (Autoren)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20882-4 (ISBN)

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The leading textbook on imperfect labor markets and the institutions that affect them-now completely updated and expandedToday's labor markets are witnessing seismic changes brought on by such factors as rising self-employment, temporary employment, zero-hour contracts, and the growth of the sharing economy. This fully updated and revised third edition of The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets reflects these and other critical changes in imperfect labor markets, and it has been significantly expanded to discuss topics such as workplace safety, regulations on self-employment, and disability and absence from work. This new edition also features engaging case studies that illustrate key aspects of imperfect labor markets.Authoritative and accessible, this textbook examines the many institutions that affect the behavior of workers and employers in imperfect labor markets. These include minimum wages, employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, family policies, equal opportunity legislation, collective bargaining, early retirement programs, and education and migration policies. Written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the book carefully defines and measures these institutions to accurately characterize their effects, and discusses how these institutions are being transformed today.Fully updated to reflect today's changing labor marketsSignificantly expanded to discuss a wealth of new topics, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemicFeatures quantitative examples, new case studies, data sets that enable users to replicate results in the literature, technical appendixes, and end-of-chapter exercisesUnique focus on institutions in imperfect labor marketsSelf-contained chapters cover each of the most important labor-market institutionsInstructor's manual available to professors-now with new exercises and solutions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 141 b/w illus. 71 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: aggregate labor supply • antidiscrimination legislation • Bilateral monopoly • Bonus payment • budget constraint • Capital market imperfections • Competition (economics) • Consumption (Economics) • Consumption Smoothing • Contract curve • Cost curve • Demand curve • Demand For Labor • Earnings • economic impact analysis • Economic indicator • Economic Inequality • economic interventionism • economic migrant • Economic planning • economic problem • Economics • Efficiency Wage • Efficiency Wages • employer family policies • Employment • Employment Protection Legislation • Endogeneity (econometrics) • False self-employment • financial compensation • Flat rate (finance) • Foregone Earnings • Gender Pay Gap • Great Recession • Hold-up problem • income distribution • Indifference curve • Inferior good • Inflation • Information asymmetry • Intertemporal budget constraint • Involuntary unemployment • labor demand • Labor Economics • Labor market segmentation • Labor Strikes • Labour Economics • Labour Supply • Lump of labour fallacy • Lump sum • Lump-Sum Payment • mandated parental leave • mandatory retirement age • Marginal cost • Marginal employment • Marginal product • Marginal product of labor • marginal rate of substitution • Marginal rate of technical substitution • marginal revenue • marginal utility • Market Failure • Market power • Market tightness • Mincer equation • minimum wage • Negative Income Tax • Neoclassical Economics • On-the-Job Training • Output (economics) • Outsourcing • Pareto Efficiency • Part-time Work • Payroll tax • payroll taxes • perfect labor markets • poverty reduction • poverty threshold • Price elasticity of demand • Primary labor market • Product Market Competition • Profit (economics) • Profit Maximization • Profit taking • purchasing power • Race to the Bottom • rationing • Real versus nominal value (economics) • Recession • Regressive tax • replacement rate • Reservation wage • Risk Aversion • risk neutrality • Secondary labor market • Self-Employment • short-time work • Statistical discrimination (economics) • subsidized childcare • substitution effect • Supply (economics) • Tax • Tax Incidence • Tax wedge • Trade barrier • underemployment • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • Unemployment Income • Unemployment in Spain • Unemployment in the United States • union contracts • unionization • Unions • Union wage premium • unskilled labor • Utility maximization problem • variable cost • wage • Wage insurance • Wage ratio • Wage regulation • Wage Rigidity • work hours regulation • Zero-profit condition
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20882-4 / 0691208824
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20882-4 / 9780691208824