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The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets: Second Edition
Tito Boeri
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Description for The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets: Second Edition
Hardback. Includes minimum wages, employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, active labor market policies, working-time regulations, family policies, equal opportunity legislation, collective bargaining, early retirement programs, education and migration policies, payroll taxes, and employment-conditional incentives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 100 line illus. 56 tables. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 184 x 256 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1138.
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 framework for analyzing how labor market institutions operate. This expanded, updated, and thoroughly revised second edition includes a new chapter on labor-market discrimination; quantitative examples; data and programming files enabling users to replicate key results of the literature; exercises at the end of each chapter; and expanded technical appendixes. The Economics ... Read more
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 framework for analyzing how labor market institutions operate. This expanded, updated, and thoroughly revised second edition includes a new chapter on labor-market discrimination; quantitative examples; data and programming files enabling users to replicate key results of the literature; exercises at the end of each chapter; and expanded technical appendixes. The Economics ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1126g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691158938
SKU
V9780691158938
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-47
About Tito Boeri
Tito Boeri is professor of labor economics at Bocconi University in Milan and scientific director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. Jan van Ours is professor of labor economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and professorial fellow in economics at the University of Melbourne.
Reviews for The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets: Second Edition
Praise for the first edition: The authors have written a very useful book aimed at providing a theoretical explanation and empirical reviews of evidence about a number of important issues in labor economics... Many of the topics covered here are relevant to public policy, law, and economics, or even international economics classes. Because the chapters are more or less self-contained, ... Read more