Title:
Labor markets and employment relationships : a comprehensive approach / Joyce P. Jacobsen and Gilbert L. Skillman.
Main Entry:
Jacobsen, Joyce P.
Skillman, Gilbert L.
Publisher:
Blackwell Pub.,
Publication Date:
2004.
Publication Place:
Malden, MA :
ISBN:
0631208364 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780631208365 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject:
Labor market.
Industrial relations.
Labor economics.
Arbeid.
Arbeidsmarkt.
Arbeidsverhoudingen.
Arbeidseconomie.
Marchâe du travail.
Relations industrielles.
âEconomie du travail.
Contents:
Introduction: labor economics and the political economy of labor -- Part I: Labor supply and demand: Labor supply -- Labor demand -- Perfectly competitive labor markets -- Imperfectly competitive labor markets -- Part II: The labor exchange: The structure of labor exchange -- Strategic labor exchange -- Bargaining in labor exchange -- Imperfect contracting in labor exchange -- Part III: The employment relationship: The nature of the employment relationship -- Employee compensation and incentive provision -- Employment continuity and internal labor markets -- Employee representation in the workplace -- Part IV: Labor market divisions: Wages and working conditions -- Education and ability -- Employee characteristics and discrimination -- Employer characteristics and market segmentation -- Part V: labor in the market system: -- Earnings inequality -- Unemployment -- Labor market dynamics.
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