The Economics of Labor

Seventy book excerpts and articles are presented in four volumes, with an introductory essay by the editor. The volumes are titled as follows: Labor Supply and Labor Demand (v.1); Labor Market Equilibrium (v.2); Wage Differences Among Workers (v.3); and Unions, Contracts, and Unemployment (v.4). A chronological table in the front matter shows the earliest selection to be from Oxford Economic Papers, ＂Some thoughts on the distribution of earnings,＂ by A.D. Roy, published in 1951. The most recent are from 2004 and 2006, articles selected from the Journal of Political Economy and American Economic Review on the effect of female labor supply on the wage structure at midcentury, labor market discrimination, and increasing residual wage inequality. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)