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The Labor Market

Derived Demand

Sparknotes.com has some economic notes, including a discussion of the labor market:
www.sparknotes.com/economics/micro/labormarkets/labordemand/section1.html

Sticky Wages

Economist N. Gregory Mankiw, author of one of the most successful economics textbooks on the market, talks about sticky wages and prices in this article in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics:
www.econlib.org/library/Enc/NewKeynesianEconomics.html

Mankiw has an illustration of efficiency wages in his blog:
gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/02/efficiency-wages-at-costco.html

Types of Unemployment

Sparknotes.com explains three types of unemployment:
www.sparknotes.com/economics/macro/measuring2/section2.rhtml

Theories of Search

(I have not yet found an appropriate entry for this topic.)

Rise of the Phillips Curve
Fall of the Phillips Curve

Kevin Hoover's article in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics tells all about the Phillips Curve. Well, almost all:
www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PhillipsCurve.html

Aggregated Markets Again

This may not be the best place for it, but here is an article from the NBER Reporter by Olvier Blanchard looking at European Unemployment.
www.nber.org/reporter/summer04/blanchard.html 


These links were checked on July 5, 2008.


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