Labour Market Economics

by Dwayne Benjamin, Morley Gunderson, Thomas Lemieux

balances the right theoretical coverage with Canadian policy issues. The text provides students with the tools they need for critical thinking about labour market problems, providing pedagogy that focuses on worked examples, extensive problem material, clear figure captions, and a glossary. Canadian labour issues are discussed within the context of a more general theoretical and empirical framework applicable to the labour problems of most developed countries. This is a Canadian text written by four of the top researchers in Canada in the area of labour economics and industrial organization. To quote a reviewer, "the comparative advantage of Benjamin is that the authors have all been major contributors to the labour market policy debates in Canada and the text is more than a Canadian adaptation of an American text."

Genres: Economics

672 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1998

Reviews

[Fiona · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a pretty well layed out economics text. There's some things this text takes for granted that are commonly taken as such in economics such as the assumption that employing everyone is the best thing for society, and it has a large amount of time spent on human capital. It can't not this is pretty standard ideology within economics.

Four stars for being well written, short of five because we need more socially minded economics theory.

[Gordon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately not a great book, for text or otherwise. Cites papers very heavily, which is good but harms the flow and makes it difficult to understand the content as a result.