Books in the Handbook of Labor Economics series

A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics. This volume concentrates on the following topics: interactions between the labour market and the macroeconomy; and policy issues within the labour market.

The subject matter of labor economics continues to have at its core an attempt to systematically find empirical analyses that are consistent with a systematic and parsimonious theoretical understanding of the diverse phenomenon that make up the labor market. This handbook contains topics of importance of the subject.

A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics. This volume focus on the following topics: thedemand side of the labour market; labour economics within companies; interactions between demand and supply; and emergent labour markets.

Summarizes advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, this title covers subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models.

What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets? This book proposes answers to this and other questions on important topics of public policy. It demonstrates how better data and advanced experiments help them apply economic theory, yielding sharper analyses and conclusions.