Labor economics

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Labor Economics (including labor economics; . English Labor economics ) is a special discipline of economics. It deals with economic issues with all aspects of individual and collective work . In detail this means: with questions of the labor market and wage formation, the trade unions and collective agreements, the industrial action as well as the co-determination and participation of the employees. Her empirical studies are mostly econometrically sound and work with models from subject-specific theories such as

Labor economics has a long tradition in the Anglo-Saxon countries. In more recent times it owes its contours to the British Henry Phelps Brown and the American John T. Dunlop . Current representatives are John T. Addison (University of South Carolina), Richard B. Freeman and James Medoff (both Harvard University ), David Metcalf ( London School of Economics ).

In Germany, the Kathedersozialisten (including Lujo Brentano ) and the Verein für Socialpolitik in the late 19th and early 20th centuries laid the foundations for an economic analysis of the work. This tradition has broken off. Today in Germany economists such as Knut Gerlach and Wolfgang Meyer (both University of Hanover ) and Claus Schnabel ( University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ) represent this subject. A business variant of labor economics is the personnel economics represented by Dieter Sadowski ( University of Trier ) .

The Bonn economist and labor economist Klaus F. Zimmermann heads the Research Institute for the Future of Work (IZA), which he founded, which monitors global developments in the labor markets.

literature

  • Gerhard Brinkmann: Economics of work. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart.
  • Gerhard Brinkmann: Introduction to Labor Economics . Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-486-24859-6 .
  • Christian Brockhaus: Wage labor as the reason for the existence of trade unions . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-593-32351-6 .
  • Friedrich Buttler, Knut Gerlach: Labor market theories . In: Willi Albers, Anton Zottmann (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of economics . tape 9 : Economy and politics to customs duties, addendum. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1983, ISBN 3-525-10260-7 , pp. 686-696 .
  • Alexander Dilger : Economics of corporate co-determination. The economic consequences of works councils. Hampp, Munich / Mering 2002, ISBN 3-87988-645-8 .
  • Wolfgang Franz : Labor Economics. 6th edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2006.
  • Richard B. Freeman: Labor economics. In: Steven N. Durlauf, Lawrence E. Blume (Eds.): The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2nd Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2008.
  • Richard B. Freeman, James L. Medoff: What Do Unions Do? New York 1984.
  • Knut Gerlach, Wolfgang Meyer: Trade unions and works councils in Germany. In: Yearbook for Economy and Society 21: Power or economic law. Marburg 2008, pp. 267-299.
  • Bernhard Külp, Wilfrid Schreiber (ed.): Labor economics. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1972.
  • The union in economic theory. (= Economy and Society. Volume 7). Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1989, ISBN 3-593-34149-2 .
  • Dieter Sadowski: Personnel Economics and Labor Policy. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7910-1834-5 .
  • Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner (ed.): Union membership in Germany: structures, determinants and tendencies. In: Industrial Relations. (Focus issue). Vol. 14, H. 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86618-151-9 .