Glossary of economics research
Results of search for labor follow:
labor:
"[L]abor economics is primarily concerned with the behavior of employers
and employees in response to the general incentives of wages, prices, profits,
and nonpecuniary aspects of the employment relationship, such as working
conditions."
Relevant terms:
active measures,
AFQT,
AGI,
average treatment effect,
Beveridge curve,
BHPS,
cobweb model,
cohort,
CPI,
education production function,
efficiency units,
efficiency wage hypothesis,
efficiency wages,
Engel effects,
Eurosclerosis,
experience,
extensive margin,
family,
free entry condition,
frictional unemployment,
GDP deflator,
Gini index,
GSOEP,
HRS,
hysteresis,
idle,
implicit contract,
inter vivos,
internal labor markets,
labor market outcomes,
labor-leisure tradeoff,
Lerman ratio,
natural rate of unemployment,
NLS,
NLSY,
NLSYW,
oligopsony,
passive measures (to combat unemployment),
price complements,
price substitutes,
PSID,
regrettables,
reservation wage property,
SCF,
SES,
skill,
SLID,
social capital,
statistical discrimination,
structural unemployment,
Survey of Consumer Finances,
tenure,
tightness,
treatment effects,
unemployment,
union threat model,
wage curve,
welfare capitalism,
yellow-dog contract.
Contexts: fields
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