The Economics of Earnings

by Solomon W. Polachek and W. Stanley Siebert

Book Overview

The Economics of Earnings analyses the wages that people earn, the jobs they do, and the labour market laws and rules within which they operate. Moving away from the conventional emphasis on point-in-time one-period decisions, it stresses informed worker choice over the life-cycle - the human capital approach. Within this framework, the book synthesises research results so as to point the way to better labour market policies. Government policy is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052136728X
• ISBN13: 9780521367288
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"