Current Issues in Labour Economics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Labour Economics: An Overview of Some Recent Theoretical and Empirical Developments

   • David Sapsford, Zafiris Tzannatos

   Pages 1-6

3. Home-Production and the Allocation of Time

   • Alessandro Cigno

   Pages 7-32

4. The Theory of Search in Labour Markets

   • C. J. McKenna

   Pages 33-62

5. Implicit-Contract Theory

   • Alan Manning

   Pages 63-85

6. Union Bargaining: A Survey of Recent Work

   • Alistair Ulph, David Ulph

   Pages 86-125

7. Strikes: Models and Evidence

   • David Sapsford

   Pages 126-150

8. Segmented Labour Markets

   • Robert McNabb, Paul Ryan

   Pages 151-176

9. The Economics of Discrimination: Theory and British Evidence

   • Zafiris Tzannatos

   Pages 177-207

10. The Labour Market in the Open Economy

    • George Alogoskoufis

    Pages 208-226

11. Profit-Sharing

    • Saul Estrin, Sushil Wadhwani

    Pages 227-258

12. Back Matter

    Pages 259-297

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Current Issues in Labour Economics is an exciting new addition to the Labour Economics literature. Labour Economics is a major area of teaching and research and this new book provides up to the minute coverage of the state of the art in the subject. Each chapter has been specially prepared by a world renowned expert in the field in question in order to provide students and teachers with a clear, concise and accessible coverage of major recent developments in the subject.

• economics
• labour economics
• production

• University of East Anglia, UK

  David Sapsford

• University of Buckingham, UK

  Zafiris Tzannatos

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