世新大學圖書館

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-424) and indexes.

Overview -- Minimum wages -- Unions and collective bargaining -- Antidiscrimination legislation -- Regulation of working hour -- Early retirement plans -- Family policies -- Education and training -- Migration policies -- Employment protection legislation -- Unemployment benefits -- Active labor market policies -- Payroll taxes.

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, assuming instead a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. This is the only textbook to focus on imperfect labor markets and to provide a systematic framework for analyzing how their 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 of Imperfect Labor Markets examines the many institutions that affect the behavior of workers and employers in imperfect labor markets. These include 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.