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The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets : Second Edition /

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets is the only textbook to focus on imperfect labor markets and to provide a systematic frame...

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Autores principales: Boeri, Tito (Autor), Ours, J. C. van (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Boxes and Available Datasets; Preface and Acknowledgments; Symbols and Acronyms; 1 Overview; 1.1 A Few Key Definitions; 1.2 The Reservation Wage and the Value of a Job; 1.2.1 From Individual to Aggregate Labor Supply; 1.2.2 The Value of a Job; 1.2.3 A Perfect Labor Market Equilibrium; 1.3 Labor Market Institutions; 1.3.1 Acting on Prices; 1.3.2 Acting on Quantities; 1.3.3 Institutional Interactions; 1.3.4 Why Do Labor Market Institutions Exist?; 1.4 Reforms of Labor Market Institutions; 1.5 Review Questions and Exercises. 
505 0 |a 1.6 Technical Annex: A Simple Static Framework1.6.1 A Competitive Labor Market; 1.6.2 Labor Market Institutions; 1.6.3 The Wedge; 1.6.4 Product Market Competition and the Employment Bias of Institutions; 2 Minimum Wages; 2.1 Cross-Country Comparisons; 2.2 Theory; 2.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market; 2.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market; 2.3 Empirical Evidence; 2.3.1 Studies Based on Firm-Level Data; 2.3.2 Studies Based on Natural Experiments; 2.3.3 Studies Based on Workers' Histories; 2.4 Policy Issues; 2.4.1 Should the Minimum Wage Be Reduced or Increased?; 2.4.2 Should There Be a Youth Minimum Wage? 
505 0 |a 2.5 Interactions with Other Institutions2.6 Why Does a Minimum Wage Exist?; 2.7 Suggestions for Further Reading; 2.8 Review Questions and Exercises; 2.9 Technical Annex: Minimum Wage Revisited; 2.9.1 Minimum Wage and Monopsony; 2.9.2 Bargaining or Government Setting?; 2.9.3 Efficiency Wages; 3 Unions and Collective Bargaining; 3.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons; 3.1.1 Union Density; 3.1.2 Coverage and Excess Coverage; 3.1.3 Centralization and Coordination; 3.1.4 Strike Activity; 3.2 Theory; 3.2.1 Collective Bargaining; 3.2.2 Union Membership; 3.2.3 Strikes; 3.3 Empirical Evidence. 
505 0 |a 3.3.1 Effects of Unions on Wages3.3.2 Bargaining Coordination, Union Density, and Unemployment; 3.4 Policy Issues; 3.4.1 Do Unions Increase Efficiency?; 3.4.2 Should Collective Bargaining Be Decentralized?; 3.5 Interactions with Other Institutions; 3.6 Why Do Unions Exist?; 3.7 Suggestions for Further Reading; 3.8 Review Questions and Exercises; 3.9 Technical Annex: Unions Revisited; 3.9.1 How Strong Should Unions Be to Be Efficient?; 3.9.2 Deriving the Contract Curve; 4 Antidiscrimination Legislation; 4.1 Measures and Cross-Country Comparisons; 4.2 Theory; 4.2.1 A Perfect Labor Market. 
505 0 |a 4.2.2 An Imperfect Labor Market4.3 Empirical Evidence; 4.3.1 Unconditional Gender Employment and Earnings Gaps; 4.3.2 Empirical Evidence on Discrimination in the Labor Market; 4.4 Policy Issues; 4.4.1 Equal Pay Legislation; 4.4.2 Affirmative Action; 4.5 Interactions with Other Institutions; 4.6 Why Does Antidiscrimination Legislation Exist?; 4.7 Suggestions for Further Reading; 4.8 Review Questions and Exercises; 4.9 Technical Annex: Discrimination; 4.9.1 Prejudice in a Competitive Labor Market; 4.9.2 Monopsony and Gender Discrimination. 
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