Internet resources
Chapter 16: The Labor Market: Wage Differentials and Personnel Practices
Web assignments:
- The Market Price of an Economist
- Who Pays for Mandated Health Insurance?
Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 16
- Adam Smith
- Adam Smith was the first economist to explicitly state the theory of compensating wage
differentials.
- Gary Becker
- This page contains links to information about Gary Becker, the 1992 Nobel Laureate in economics, who is best
known for his seminal research on human capital theory.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- A source of extensive data on U.S. labor market conditions.
- Labor-Oriented Internet Resources
- An extensive collection of links to labor-oriented resources on the internet (provided by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library at the University of California, Berkeley).
- National Center for Educational Statistics
- Visit this site to find information about the relationship between education and earnings. In
particular, you may wish to browse through the online copy of the
1997 Digest of Educational Statistics.
Related resources:
- Other economic resources
- This page contains a set of links to economic resources that may be of interest to introductory economics students.
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