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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Labor economics''' is the branch of [[economics]] that studies the functioning of the labour market, the behaviour of employers and workers, and the determination of wages, employment, and working conditions. It applies the tools of [[microeconomics]] and [[macroeconomics]] to analyse how labour is supplied by workers and demanded by firms.<ref name="wiki">Wikipedia contributors, "Labour economics".</ref><br />
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== Subject matter ==<br />
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Labor economics examines a wide range of issues:<br />
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* How are wages determined, and what causes wage differences between workers and jobs?<br />
* What determines the level of employment and [[unemployment]]?<br />
* How do workers decide whether to work, how much to work, and what occupations to enter?<br />
* How does education and training affect earnings?<br />
* How do unions, minimum wages, and labour laws affect outcomes?<br />
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== Key concepts ==<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Concept<br />
! Description<br />
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| [[Supply and demand|Labour supply]]<br />
| The number of hours workers are willing to work at a given wage.<br />
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| [[Supply and demand|Labour demand]]<br />
| The number of workers firms wish to hire at a given wage.<br />
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| [[Human capital]]<br />
| The skills and knowledge that raise workers' productivity and earnings.<br />
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| Compensating differentials<br />
| Wage differences that offset the non-monetary features of jobs.<br />
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| [[Unemployment]]<br />
| The state of being without work while actively seeking it.<br />
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== Areas of study ==<br />
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Labor economics encompasses the analysis of wage determination, labour mobility, the economics of education, discrimination, trade unions, and labour market policy. Empirical labour economics relies heavily on [[Econometrics|econometric]] methods to estimate causal effects.<ref name="wiki"/><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Human Capital]]<br />
* [[Unemployment]]<br />
* [[Macroeconomics]]<br />
* [[Econometrics]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Economics]]<br />
[[Category:Labour economics]]<br />
[[Category:Microeconomics]]</div>Toto