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Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. William Darity

    1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 29)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • William Darity Jr.
      Pages 1-7

  3. Unemployment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Keynes, Cambridge, and the New Keynesian Economics

      • Michael Syron Lawlor
      Pages 11-58

    3. Labor Economics and Unemployment: An Historian’s Perspective

      • Alexander Keyssar
      Pages 59-74

  4. How Labor Markets Really Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. The Impact of Formal On-the-Job Training

      • Alfred J. Field, Arthur H. Goldsmith
      Pages 77-116

    3. Empirical Tests of Labor Market Equilibrium: an Evaluation

      • J. Heckman, T. MaCurdy
      Pages 117-139

    4. Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence

      • William T. Dickens, Kevin Lang
      Pages 141-180

  5. Race, Discrimination, and Competition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Labor Markets and Racial Inequality

      • Jeremiah Cotton
      Pages 183-208

    3. Racial Inequality and Racial Conflict: Recent Developments in Radical Theory

      • Rhonda M. Williams
      Pages 209-235

  6. Culture, Ethnicity, and Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Culture and Human Capital: Theory and Evidence or Theory Versus Evidence?

      • Stephen A. Woodbury
      Pages 239-267

    3. Labor Economics and Public Policy: Dominance of Constraints or Preferences?

      • E. Michael Foster
      Pages 269-294

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 295-308
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About this book

William Darity, Jr. In 1984 the Kluwer series in Modern Economic Thought, under the editorial direction of Warren Samuels, brought out a book under my editorship entitled Labor Economics: Modern Views. It consisted of a series of essays and commentaries that sought, in a critical fashion, to assess the state of the art in the field of labor economics with respect to several themes. These included methodology versus practice, the analysis of discrimination by gender and race, the phenomenon of persistent racial differences in un­ employment exposure, occupational safety and health regulation, dual versus segmented labor markets, and the remnants of the Phillips curve trade-off between unemployment and inflation. Nearly a decade later I was approached by Warren Samuels and Kluwer about editing a new book that would again address where things stand in labor economics. In proceeding with the development of this current book I was a struck by the extent to which the research thrust that was apparent in the early 1980s remains intact as we move toward the 21st century. The vast majority of scholarship in the labor subfield is dominated by the methodological orientation of applied neoclassical microeconomics, supplemented by incursions from the themes that occupy the so-called "pure theorists," particularly of the game theoretic variety.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

    William Darity

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets

  • Editors: William Darity

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2938-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9260-6Published: 31 December 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5305-1Published: 27 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2938-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 308

  • Topics: Labor Economics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic Policy

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