ppt labor economcis chap001
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Chapter 1Labor Economics:
Introduction and Overview
Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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1.Labor Economics as a Discipline
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Importance of Labor Economics
• Socioeconomic Issues– Gender and race discrimination– Legal and illegal immigration– Fall in unionization– Free trade
• Quantitative Importance – 70% of national income goes to
labor.
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Importance of Labor Economics
• Unique Characteristics– Labor is rented and not
bought/sold– Non-monetary aspects– Institutional factors• Unions, licensing, minimum wage,
discrimination
– Labor demand is a derived demand
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2. The “Old” and the “New”
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Change in Labor Economics
• Old Approach– Highly descriptive and historical– Little economic analysis
• New Approach– Uses applied micro and macro theory
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3. Economic Perspective
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Choice
• Labor economics uses theories of choice to explain behavior of labor market participants and resulting outcomes.
• Theories rest on three assumptions…
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Choice
1. Relative scarcity2. Purposeful behavior• Choices involve giving something up -an
opportunity cost.• Individuals make choices purposefully
with an expected net gain.
3. Adaptability• Workers and firms adapt to changes in
expected costs and benefits.
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4. Overview
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Overview• Microeconomics– Individual economic units or markets
• Macroeconomics– Economy as a whole
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1. Why must the concepts of supply and demand as they pertain to products be modified when applied to labor markets?
Questions for Thought
2. Indicate whether each of the following statements pertains to microeconomics or macroeconomics:
(a) The unemployment rate in the United States was 8.9 percent in 2011.
(b) Bartenders at Andrew’s Capital Bar and Grill earn $9.25 per hour.
(c) The productivity of American workers as a whole has increased by more than 2 percent per year in the last 4 years.
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