TY - BOOK AU - a McConnell,Campbell R. AU - Brue,Stanley L. AU - Macpherson,David A. TI - Contemporary labor economics / SN - 9780071283199 U1 - 331 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill Higher Education, KW - Labor economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Labor 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 -- Labor Market Discrimination -- Job Search: External and Internal -- The Distribution of Personal Earnings -- Employment and Unemployment ER -