Labor Economics - (Second Edition)

Author: Yang Heqing
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book is divided into 12 chapters, focusing on the examination and elaboration of labor demand and supply, labor markets (including internal labor markets), labor time, life cycle and labor participation decisions, wage theory, employment and unemployment, human capital investment, labor discrimination, government behavior and labor markets, and labor relations. The appendix introduces the formation and development of labor economics. This book has the following characteristics: 1. It actively incorporates the strengths of various domestic and international textbooks while maintaining a relatively stable theoretical framework, highlighting the realities and recent research achievements in China's labor economics field. 2. It pays attention to reflecting new theories and perspectives that have become relatively mature in foreign countries. 3. It not only introduces theories, analytical tools, and methods but also integrates them with practical issues and various labor concerns of readers. 4. In terms of chapter arrangement, it particularly adds two chapters: "Labor Time" and "The Formation and Development of Labor Economics." 5. It begins with "Labor Demand" as the lead for the entire discussion, whereas most labor economics textbooks start with the discussion of labor supply. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in economics and management.