Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface -- Introduction -- Aknowledgments -- I labor supply and demand behaviors -- Labor supply -- Labor demand -- Competitive equilibrium and compensating wage differentials -- Education and human capital -- Imperfect competitive labor markets -- Job search -- Contracts, risk-sharing and incentive -- Collective bargaining and labor unions -- Discrimination -- Job creation, job destruction and unemployment -- Equilibrium unemployment -- Technological progress, unemployment and inequality -- Globalization, employment and inequality -- Public policies -- Income redistribution -- Insurance policies -- Active labor market policies -- Mathematical appendices -- Notes.