Labor Economics, ninth edition by George J. Borjas provides a modern introduction to labor economics, surveying the field with an emphasis on both theory and facts.Labor Economics is thoroughly integrated with the adaptive digital tools available in McGraw-Hill's Connect, proven to increase student engagement and success in the course.All new Data Explorer questions using data simulation to help students grasp conceptsMaterials are fresh and up to date by introducing and discussing the latest research studies where conceptual or empirical contributions have increased our understanding of the labor market.The book has undergone Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion reviews to implement content around topics including generalizations and stereotypes, gender, abilities/disabilities, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of names, and age.

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George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA. Professor Borjas received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Professor Borjas has written extensively on labor market issues. He is the author of several books, including Wage Policy in the Federal Bureaucracy (American Enterprise Institute. 1980), Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy (Basic Books. 1990), Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton University Press, 1999), Immigration Economics (Harvard University Press. 2014), and We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative (Norton, 2016). He has published more than 150 articles in books and scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Professor Borjas was called America's leading immigration economist by Businessweek and The Wall Street Journal. In 2011, Professor Borjas was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. He was an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics from 1998 to 2006. He also has served as a member of the Advisory Panel in Economics at the National Science Foundation and has testified frequently before congressional committees and government commissions.

Klappentext

Labor Economics, ninth edition by George J. Borjas provides a modern introduction to labor economics, surveying the field with an emphasis on both theory and facts.
Labor Economics is thoroughly integrated with the adaptive digital tools available in McGraw-Hill's Connect, proven to increase student engagement and success in the course.
All new Data Explorer questions using data simulation to help students grasp concepts
Materials are fresh and up to date by introducing and discussing the latest research studies where conceptual or empirical contributions have increased our understanding of the labor market.
The book has undergone Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion reviews to implement content around topics including generalizations and stereotypes, gender, abilities/disabilities, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of names, and age.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Labor Supply

Chapter 3: Labor Demand

Chapter 4: Labor Market Equilibrium

Chapter 5: Compensating Wage Differentials

Chapter 6: Education

Chapter 7: The Wage Distribution

Chapter 8: Labor Mobility

Chapter 9: Labor Market Discrimination

Chapter 10: Labor Unions

Chapter 11: Incentive Pay

Chapter 12: Unemployment

Mathematical Appendix: Some Standard Models in Labor Economics