TY - BOOK AU - Ehrenberg, Ronald G. AU - Smith, Robert S. TI - Modern labor economics: Theory and public policy SN - 0-673-46227-7 U1 - BCir. 331 PY - 1991/// CY - United State of America PB - HarperCollins Publishers Inc. N1 - Include subject index; 1. Introduction --2. Overview of the labor market --3. The demand for labor --4. Labor demand elasticities, technological change, and foreign trade --5. Quasi-fixed labor costs and their effects on demand --6. Supply of labor to the economy: the decision to work --7. Labor supply: household production, the family, and the life cycle --8. Compensating wage differentials and labor markets --9. Investments in human capital: education and training --10. Worker mobility: turnover and migration --11. The structure of compensation --12. Unions and collective bargaining in the private sector --13. Public sector labor markets --14. The economics of discrimination --15. Unemployment --16. Inflation and unemployment ER -