Contemporary Labor Economics or Understanding the Digital Economy

Contemporary Labor Economics

Author: Campbell R McConnell

Contemporary Labor Economics, 7e presents the "new" labor economics. In the past, study of labor was highly descriptive, emphasizing historical developments, facts, institutions, and legal considerations. Labor markets and unemployment was accorded some attention, but the analysis was typically minimal. This state of affairs has changed significantly in recent decades. Economists have achieved important breakthroughs in studying labor markets and problems. Labor economics is increasingly an applied field of micro and macro theory and has become a critical part of the core of analytical economics. As a result, the focus of the text is on the "new" labor economics. However, it also presents traditional topics such as labor law, structure of unions, and collective bargaining since these issues also play an important role in labor markets.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview	1
Ch. 2	The Theory of Individual Labor Supply	14
Ch. 3	Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work	51
Ch. 4	Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital	84
Ch. 5	The Demand for Labor	126
Ch. 6	Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor	167
Ch. 7	Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency	207
Ch. 8	The Wage Structure	241
Ch. 9	Mobility, Migration, and Efficiency	275
Ch. 10	Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining	306
Ch. 11	The Economic Impact of Unions	343
Ch. 12	Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation	376
Ch. 13	Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation?	403
Ch. 14	Labor Market Discrimination	438
Ch. 15	Job Search: External and Internal	479
Ch. 16	The Distribution of Personal Earnings	499
Ch. 17	Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Unemployment	524
Ch. 18	Employment and Unemployment	553
App	Information Sources in Labor Economics	582
	Glossary	598
	Answers to "Your Turn" Questions	613
	Index	617

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the economic implications of the Internet and electronic commerce domestically and internationally, and to consider new types of data collection and research that could be undertaken by public and private organizations.

This book contains work presented at a conference held by executive branch agencies in May 1999 at the Department of Commerce. The goals of the conference were to assess current research on the digital economy, to engage the private sector in developing the research that informs investment and policy decisions, and to promote better understanding of the growth and socioeconomic implications of information technology and electronic commerce. Aspects of the digital economy addressed include macroeconomic assessment, organizational change, small business, access, market structure and competition, and employment and the workforce.

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles or Nine Questions

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author: Dean Cocking

Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, the authors develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles. They provide insights into the central notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical professional-client relationships would be like.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The nature of virtue ethics	7
2	The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship	39
3	A virtue ethics approach to professional roles	74
4	Ethical models of the good general practitioner	95
5	Professional virtues, ordinary vices	116
6	Professional detachment in health care and legal practice	137
	Bibliography	172
	Index	184

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Nine Questions: Secured Debt Deals in the 21st Century

Author: David G Epstein

Nine Questions is about secured debt deals: whether to do a secured debt deal, documenting the deal, dealing with deal problems. The book is organized around the "life cycle" of deals, which helps students understand why Article 9 concepts matter and how Article 9 works. The book covers principles and principal problem areas rather than all particulars of perfection and priority rules. Nine Questions is the first secured credit casebook to include edited, relevant Article 9 provisions throughout the book, right next to the problems and cases and original text.

The Work Family Challenge or Engines of Enterprise

The Work-Family Challenge: Rethinking Employment

Author: Suzan Lewis

The Context for Change / II. Policy and Practice / III. Barriers to the Effectiveness of Current Policies and Strategies for Moving Beyond Policies to Culture Change / IV. Conclusion CONTRIBUTORS: S. Lewis, P. Moss, J. Lewis, L. Harker, J. Gonyea, B. Googins, H. Holt, I. Thaulow, C. L. Cooper, A. Watts, C. Camp, K. Taylor, P. H. Raabe, J. K. Fletcher, R. Rapoport

Table of Contents:

	List of Contributors
	Foreword
1	Rethinking Employment: An Organizational Culture Change Framework	1
2	Reconciling Employment and Family Responsibilities: A European Perspective	20
3	Work-Family Reconciliation and the Law: Intrusion or Empowerment?	34
4	The Family-Friendly Employer in Europe	48
5	The Restructuring of Work and Family in the United States: A New Challenge for American Corporations	63
6	Formal and Informal Flexibility in the Workplace	79
7	Corporate Relocation Policies	93
8	Developing and Implementing Policies: Midland Bank's Experience	103
9	Evaluating the Impact of Family-Friendly Employer Policies: A Case Study	112
10	Constructing Pluralistic Work and Career Arrangements	128
11	Work-Family Issues as a Catalyst for Organizational Change	142
12	Rethinking Employment: A Partnership Approach	159
	Index	169

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Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England

Author: Peter Temin

New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginning—as immigration ground to a halt in the eighteenth century—New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in the mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society.

Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by preeminent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors describe how, short of staple crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the nineteenth century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of the United States caught up. And they trace the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments—for instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy; and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's industrial skills.

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The economy of New England experienced far-reaching changes over the centuries and led the way in the transformation of an American agrarian economy to a manufacturing powerhouse. This process of change is the subject of this well-knit collection of essays by economists and historians, edited by Temin (economics, MIT). The essays trace the fortunes of venture capitalists and investors in 18th-century New England, which, lacking staple crops to trade, made overseas ventures the foundation of the region's economy. In the early 19th century, Yankee ingenuity made New England the nation's leader in manufacturing, beginning with cotton textiles and machine tools. Eventually, other sections of the country forged ahead of New England in terms of factory output. Showing great ingenuity, however, New England reinvented itself as an important producer of less tangible but still valuable products and services, such as higher education and, in our own time, computer software. A scholarly work that effectively synthesizes much available information, this is recommended for the economic history collections of academic libraries.--Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.