1 Labor Economics Introduction and Overview 2 The Theory of Individual Labor Supply 3 Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work 4 Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital 5 The Demand for Labor 6 Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor 7 Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency 8 The Wage Structure 9 Mobility, Migration, and Efficiency 10 Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining 11 The Economic Impact of Unions 12 Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation 13 Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation? 14 Labor Market Discrimination 15 Job Search: External and Internal 16 The Distribution of Personal Earnings 17 Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Unemployment 18 Employment and Unemployment