Modern Labour Economics

ISBN-13: 9780415469814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 386 str.

Peter Sloane

Opis

These days, firms and employees are part of a less regulated, more fluid, and more international labour market and knowledge, training, human resource development and human capital are all major factors on the contemporary scene. This new textbook is the first properly international textbook to reflect these swinging changes.

Spis treści

1. Labour Force Participation 2. The Labour Supply Curve 3. Investment in Human Capital  4. Changing Jobs: The Economics of Job Search 5. The Demand for Labour 6. Extensions of Labour Demand: Mismatches in the Labour Market 7. Trade Unions 8. Bargaining and Conflict 9. The Structure of Labour Markets 10. Wage Incentives 11. Labour Market Policy

O autorze

Peter Sloane is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Swansea University, UK, where he was the Director of the Welsh Economy Labour Market Evaluation and Research Centre. He is also Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, Australia. Inter alia he is author of Labour Economics, Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison and The Economics of Sport.

Paul L. Latreille is Professor of Management at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is an expert on workplace conflict and its resolution, including Employment Tribunals and mediation, vocational training, disability and inactivity.

Nigel O’Leary is a Reader at Swansea University and an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, Australia. He has published extensively in international journals in the areas of the economics of discrimination, educational economics, trade unions and labour market attachment.