Table of Contents

Core Text
Preliminaries
1. Introduction
2. The U.S. Labor Market
PART I: Foundations
3. Short-Run Demand
4. The Supply of Labor
5. Human Capital
6. On-the-Job Training
7. Competitive Equilibrium
PART II: Applications and Extensions
8. The Minimum Wage
9. Policy Application: The War on Poverty
10. Death and Injury in the U.S. Workplace
11. Discrimination 1: Theory
12. Discrimination 2: Evidence and Policy
PART III: The Employment Relation
13. The Hiring Process
14. Incentives
15. Tasks, Technologies, and Organizational Design
16. Careers and Employment Relation
17. Executive Pay
18. Trade Unions 1: Density, Goals and Impact
PART IV: The Aggregate Labor Market
19. Earning 1: The Wage Structure
20. Labor Mobility I: Migration
21. Labor Mobility II: Immigration and Outsourcing
22. Unemployment I: Contractual Frictions
23. Unemployment II: Market Frictions
24. Turnover I: Search and Accessions
25. Turnover II: Quits and Layoffs
Supplemental Web Chapters:
S1: The Long-Run Demand for Labor and Adjustment Costs
S2: Policy Application: Income Taxes
S3: Labor Supply over the Life Cycle
S4: The Family
S5: Retirement
S6: Crime
S7: Trade Unions II: Collective Bargaining and Strikes
S8: Earnings II: Sectoral Shocks and Aggregate Disturbances
S9: Schooling I: The Performance of Schools and Colleges
S10: Education II: Governance and Finance

About the Author

Derek Laing is Associate Professor of Economics at Syracuse University.