Test Bank for Labour Market Economics, 8th

Edition, Dwayne Benjamin, Morley Gunderson,

Thomas Lemieux Craig Riddell
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Labour Market Economics provides a mixture of theory and practice with a unique
emphasis on Canadian policy issues. Written by four of the leading researchers in
Canada in the area of labour economics and industrial organization – Dwayne
Benjamin, Morley Gunderson, Thomas Lemieux, and Craig Riddell – the Eighth
Edition has been refreshed to include updated content coverage, data, tables, and
figures, and enhanced to support instructors teaching efforts with the addition of
a Test Bank.
W. Craig Riddell is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University
of British Columbia and an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research. His research interests are in labour economics, labour relations and
public policy. Current research is focused on unemployment and labour market
dynamics, the role of human capital in economic growth, experimental and non-
experimental approaches to the evaluation of social programs, unionization and
collective bargaining, gender differences in labour market behavior and
outcomes, unemployment insurance and social assistance, and education and
training. Recent publications include: "Qualifying for Unemployment Insurance:
An Empirical Analysis" Economic Journal, 1997 (with David Green); “Wages, Skills
and Technology in the United States and Canada” in E. Helpman (ed.) General
Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth, MIT Press, 1998 (with Kevin Murphy
and Paul Romer); “The Measurement of Unemployment: An Empirical Approach”
Econometrica 1999 (with Stephen Jones); "Canadian Labour Market Performance
in International Perspective" Canadian Journal of Economics 1999. He is also co-
author (with Dwayne Benjamin and Morley Gunderson) of Labour Market
Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada, the leading Canadian labour
economics textbook. Professor Riddell is former Head of the Department of
Economics at UBC, former Academic Co-Chair of the Canadian Employment
Research Forum, and Past-President of the Canadian Economics Association.

Morley Gunderson holds the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Chair in Youth
Employment at the University of Toronto, where he is a Professor at the Centre
for Industrial Relations (Director from 1985-97) and the Department of
Economics. He is also a Research Associate of the Institute of Policy Analysis, the
Centre for International Studies, and the Institute for Human Development, Life
Course and Aging, all at the University of Toronto, as well as an Adjunct Scientist
at the Institute for Work and Health. He has a BA in Economics from Queen's
University (1967), an MA in Industrial Relations (1969) and a Ph.D. in Economics
(1971) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Visiting Scholar
at various institutions: the International Institute for Labour Research in Geneva,
Switzerland (1977/78); the National Bureau of Economic Research at Stanford
University (1984/85 and 1991-93); the North America Forum at the Institute for
International Studies at Stanford (Summer 1994-96); and the Hoover Institution at
Stanford (1998/99). His publications include books on Union-Management
Relations in Canada, 4th ed. 2000; Women in the Canadian Labour Market, 1998;
Forging Business-Labour Partnerships: The Emergence of Sector Councils in
Canada, 1998; Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada,
4th ed., 1998; Comparable Worth and Gender Discrimination: An International
Perspective, 1995; Pay Equity, 1990; Women and Labour Market Poverty, 1990;
and Economics of Poverty and Income Distribution, 1983. He has published over
70 articles in academic journals and over 70 chapters in edited volumes on
various topics: gender discrimination and comparable worth; the ageing
workforce, pensions and mandatory retirement; youth employment; public sector
wage determination; the determinants and impact of immigration; the causes and
consequences of strikes; childcare arrangements and labour market behaviour;
workers' compensation and reasonable accommodation; labour market
adjustment and training; volunteer labour supply and the impact of trade
liberalisation and globalisation on labour markets, labour policy, labour standards,
industrial relations, human resource management and workplace practices.
Currently, Professor Gunderson is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor
Research and the International Journal of Manpower, and he is co-editor of the
Labour Arbitration Yearbook. He has been a member of the Executive Board of
the Industrial Relations Research Association and an advisor/consultant to various
organizations: Labour Canada; Ontario Ministry of Labour; Statistics Canada;
Abella Commission on Employment Equity; Canadian Human Rights Commission;
Ontario Task Forces on Hours of Work and Overtime and on Mandatory
Retirement; Ontario Pay Equity Commission; BC Task Force on Employment and
Training; Ontario Workers' Compensation Board; Canadian Policy Research
Network; Federal Task Force on Working Time and the Distribution of Work;
Ontario Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation; Human Resources
Development Canada; BC Royal Commission on Workers’ Compensation; the
North America Forum at Stanford; the International Labour Organisation and the
Harvard Institute for International Development.
• ISBN-10 : 1259030830
• ISBN-13 : 978-1259030833
Table contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Labour Market Economics – NOT Available.
PART ONE: Labour Supply
Chapter 2: Labour Supply: Individual Attachment to the Labour Market
Appendix 2: Consumer Choice Theory
Chapter 3: Labour Supply and Public Policy: Work Incentive Effects of Alternative
Income Maintenance Schemes
Chapter 4: Labour Supply over the Life Cycle
PART TWO: Labour Demand
Chapter 5: Demand for Labour in Competitive Labour Markets
Chapter 6: Labour Demand, Non-Wage Benefits, and Quasi-Fixed Costs
PART THREE: Labour Demand and Supply Together
Chapter 7: Wages and Employment in a Single Labour Market
PART FOUR: The Determination of Relative Wages
Chapter 8: Compensating Wage Differentials
Chapter 9: Human Capital Theory: Applications to Education and Training
Appendix 9: Understanding Ability Bias
Chapter 10: Wage Structures across Markets
Chapter 11: The Economics of Immigration
Chapter 12: Discrimination and Male-Female Earnings Differentials
Chapter 13: Optimal Compensation Systems, Deferred Compensation, and
Mandatory Retirement
PART FIVE: Unions
Chapter 14: Unions and Collective Bargaining
Appendix 14: Theory of Bargaining
Chapter 15: Union Impact on Wage and Non-Wage Outcomes
PART SIX: Unemployment
Chapter 16: Unemployment: Meaning, Measurement, and Canada’s Experience
Chapter 17: Unemployment: Causes and Consequences
Appendix 17: Deficient-Demand Unemployment and the Phillips Curve