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1. Introduction: 1.1. An economic story of the labor market ; 1.2. The actors in the labor market ; 1.3. Why do we need a theory? ; 1.4. The organization of the book ; Appendix: An introduction to regression analysis -- 2. Labor supply: 2.1. measuring the labor force ; 2.2. Basic facts about labor supply ; 2.3. The worker’s preferences ; 2.4. The budget constraint ; 2.5. The hours of work decision ; 2.6. To work or not to work ; 2.7. The labor supply curve ; 2.8. Estimates of the labor supply elasticity ; 2.9. Labor supply of women ; 2.10. Policy application: welfare programs and work incentives ; 2.11. Policy application: the earned income tax credit -- 3. Topics in labor supply: 3.1. Labor supply over the life cycle ; 3.2. Labor supply over the business cycle ; 3.3. Retirement ; 3.4. Policy application: the decline in work attachment among older workers ; 3.5. Household production : 3.6. Fertility -- 4. Labor demand: 4.1. The production function ; 4.2. The employment decision in the short run ; 4.3. The employment decision in the long run ; 4.4. The long-run demand curve for labor ; 4.5. The elasticity of substitution ; 4.6. Marshall’s rules of derived demand ; 4.7. Factor demand with many inputs ; 4.8. An overview of labor market equilibrium ; 4.9. Policy application: the employment effects of minimum wages ; 4.10. Adjustment costs and labor demand -- 5. Labor market equilibrium: 5.1. Equilibrium an a single competitive labor market ; 5.2. Competitive equilibrium across labor markets ; 5.3. Policy application: payroll taxes and subsidies ; 5.4. Policy application: immigration ; 5.5. The cobweb model ; 5.6. Noncompetitive labor markets: monopsony ; 5.7. Noncompetitive labor markets: monopoly ; 5.8. Wages and employment in the public sector -- 6. Compensating wage differentials: 6.1. The market for risky jobs ; 6.2. The hedonic wage function ; 6.3. Policy application: how much is a life worth? ; 6.4. Policy application: safety and health regulations ; 6.5. Compensating differentials and job amenities ; 6.6. Compensating differentials and layoffs -- 7. Human capital: 7.1. Education in the labor market: some stylized facts ; 7.2. The schooling model ; 7.3. The wage gap among workers who differ in their education ; 7.4. Estimating the rate of return to schooling ; 7.5. Do workers maximize lifetime earnings? ; 7.6. Schooling as a signal ; 7.7. Post-school human capital investments ; 7.8. On-the-job training ; 7.9. On-the-job training and the age-earnings profile ; 7.10. Policy application: evaluating government training programs -- 8. The wage structure: 8.1. The earnings distribution ; 8.2. Changes in the wage structure: basic facts ; 8.3. Policy application: why did wage inequality increase? ; 8.4. The earnings of superstars ; 8.5. Inequality across generations -- 9. Labor mobility: 9.1. Geographic migration as a human capital investment ; 9.2. Internal migration in the united states ; 9.3. Family migration ; 9.4. Immigration in the United States ; 9.5. immigrant performance in The U.S. labor market ; 9.6. The Decision to immigrate ; 9.7. Policy application: the economic benefits from immigration ; 9.8. Job turnover: some stylized facts ; 9.9. The job match ; 9.10. Specific training and job turnover ; 9.11. Job turnover and the age-earnings profile -- 10. Labor market discrimination: 10.1. Race and gender in the labor market ; 10.2. The discrimination coefficient ; 10.3. Employer discrimination ; 10.4. Employee discrimination ; 10.5. consumer discrimination ; 10.6. Statistical discrimination ; 10.7. Measuring discrimination ; 10.8. Policy application: determinants of the black-white wage ratio ; 10.9. Policy application: determinants of the male-female wave ratio ; 10.10. Discrimination against other groups -- 11. labor Unions: 11.1. Unions in The United States ; 11.2. Determinants of union membership ; 11.3. Monopoly Unions ; 11.4. Policy application: unions and resource allocation ; 11.5. Efficient contracts ; 11.6. Strikes ; 11.7. Union Wage effects ; 11.8. The Exit-Voice hypothesis ; 11.9. Policy application: public sector unions -- 12. Labor market contracts and work incentives: 12.1. Piece rates and time rates ; 12.2. Tournaments ; 12.3. Policy application: the compensation of executives ; 12.4. Work incentives and delayed compensation ; 12.5. Efficiency wages -- 13. Unemployment: 13.1. Unemployment in The United States ; 13.2. Frictional and structural unemployment ; 13.3. The steady-state rate of unemployment ; 13.4. Job search ; 13.5. Policy application: unemployment compensation ; 13.6. The International substitution hypothesis ; 13.7. The sectoral shifts hypothesis ; 13.8. Efficiency wages ; 13.9. Implicit contracts ; 13.10. Policy application: the trade-off between inflation and unemployment.