(2) Neil W. Chamberlain and Donald Cullen, The Labor Sector, 2nd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971).

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1 Meets: 2:00-2:50 p.m. MWF 205 Econ Building Economics LABOR ECONOMICS Fall Semester, 1974 Professor: Dr. Bernard Udis Office: 208 Econ Building Phone: REQUIRED TEXTS: (1) Albert Rees, The Economics of Work and Pay (New York: Harper and Row, 1973). ( (2) Neil W. Chamberlain and Donald Cullen, The Labor Sector, 2nd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971). (3) Lloyd G. Reynolds, et &, Readings in Labor Economics and Labor Relations (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974). SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS : EXAMINATIONS: DATE SECTIONS DATE SECTIONS Week 1 (Sept. 2) I & II Week 8 (Oct. 21) v-c Midterm - Final 2 (Sept. 9) II (cont'd. ) 9 (Oct. 28) V-D 3 (Sept. 16) III 10 (Nov. 4) V-E 4 (Sept. 23) III (cont'd. ) & IV-A 11 (Nov. 11) V-F 5 (Sept. 30) IV-B 12 (Nov. 18) VI-A 6 (Oct. 7) V-A 13 (Nov. 25) VI-A (cont'd.) 7 (Oct. 14) V-A (cont'd. ) & V-B 14 (Dec. 2) VI-B & VII to be announced Tuesday, December 17, 1974, 3 : 30-6:30 p.m. 15 (Dec. 9) VII (cont'd.)

2 ECON 461 Labor Economics Professor Ud is Fall 1974 I. The Labor Sector: An Overview Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 1: Labor as a Producer and Consumer of Income Reynolds - Ch, 1: Labor," E.H. Reynolds - Ch. 3: Easterlin "The Economis t 's Study of Phelps Brown "Population," Richard A. ( II. Supply of Labor Rees - Ch. 1: Labor-Force Participation Rees - Ch, 2: Hours of Work and the Supply of Effort Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 3 : The Supply of Skill: Investment in Human Capital Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 17 : Supply and Demand of the Labor Factor, pp Labor as a Seller of Individual Services Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch, 2: The Labor Force Rees - Ch. 3: Occupational Mobility Reynolds - Ch. 2: "Married Women in t he Labor Force," Glen G. Cain Reynolds - Ch. 4 : ''Human Capital - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysi s, " Gary S. Becker Reynolds - Ch, 5: "Assessing t he Economic Contribution of Education," William G, Bowen III. The Demand for Labor Rees - Ch. 4: Marginal Productivity Theory in Competitive Markets Rees - Ch. 5: Th e Demand for Labor: Some Extensi ons Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 17: Supply and Demand of the Labor Fact or, pp Labor as a Factor of Production Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch, 15: From Wage Rates and Salaries to Labor Costs Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch, 16: Management of Personnel Relations IV, Labor Markets and Labor Mobility A. Rees - Ch, 6 : Job Search, Mobility, and Migration Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 4: Job Mobility Reynolds - Ch. 6 : "The Wealth of Na tions," Adam Smith Reynolds - Ch, 7: "Principles of Economics" Alfred Mar shall Reynolds - Ch. 8: "The Balkanization of Labor Market s," Clark Kerr Reynolds - Ch. 9: "Information Ne tworks in Labor Markets," Albert Rees

3 Page 2 IV. Labor Markets and Labor Mobility (cont ' d.) B. Rees - Ch. 7: Unemployment and Unfilled Vacancies Unemploy Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch, 23: ment V. Microeconomic Aspects of Trade Unions A. Rees - Ch. 8: Union Goals B. Rees - Ch. 9: The Bargaining Process Rees - Ch. 10: The Effect of Collective Bargaining on Relative Earnings Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 18: The Determination of Wages Rees - Ch. 11: Occupational Wage Differentials Labor as a Movement Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 5: Unions as Agents and Institutuions Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch, 6: Labor as a Movement: The Period to 1900 Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch, 7: Labor as a Movement: The Period since 1900 Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 8: The Role of Law in Union-Employer Relations Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 9: The Role of Law in Union-Membership Relations Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 10: The Government of Unions Reynolds - Ch. 10: "Improving the Labor Market Trade-off between Inflation and Unemployment," Charles C. Holt Reynolds - Ch, 11: "Why is the Unemployment Rate So High at Full Employment?" Robert E. Hall Reynolds - Ch, 12: "Unemployment: A Fresh Perspective," Charles C. Killingsworth Reynolds - Ch. 13 : "Federal Training and Work Programs in the Sixties," Sar A. Levitan and Garth L. Mangum Reynolds - Ch. 14: "Job Creation," Charles L. Schultze, Edward R, Fried, Alice M. Rivlin, and Nancy H. Teeters Reynolds - Ch. 15: "The Emergency Employment Act: An Interim Assessment," Sar A, Levitan and Robert Taggert Reynolds - Ch, 16: "The Hard to Employ: European Programs," Beatrice Reuben Reynolds - Ch. 17: "Unionism and Relative Wages in the United States," H. Gregg Lewis Reynolds - Ch. 18: "The Effects of Unions on Resource Allocation," Albert Rees Reynolds - Ch. 19: "Impact of Unions on Wage Levels and Income Distribution," Robert Ozanne Reynolds - Ch. 42: "Government Regulation or Control of Union Activities," Charles Gregory Reynolds - Ch. 43: "Industrial Relations and the Liberal Pluralist, 11 Cla rk Kerr Reynolds - Ch, 44 : "Unions and Union Leaders of Their Own Choosing," Clark Kerr

4 Page 3 V. Microeconomic Aspects of Trade Unions (cont'd.) c. Rees - Ch. 12: Wage Differentials by Race and Sex D. Rees - Ch. 13; The Distribution of Earnings by Size Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 19 : The Allocation of Workers and the Distribution of Income E. Rees - Ch. 14: Fringe Benefits Reynolds - Ch. 24: "The Economics of Discrimination," Gary S. Becker Reynolds - Ch. 25: "The Economics of Racism" Michael Reich Reynolds - Ch. 26: "'Women's Place' in the Labor Market,' Francine D. Blau Reynolds - Ch. 27: "Sex in the Marketplace," Juanita Kreps Reynolds - Ch. 28: Combatting Discrimination in Employment," Stanley H. Masters and Collette Moser Reynolds - Ch. 57: "Black Protest and the Struggle for Union Democracy," Herbert Hill Reynolds - Ch. 58 : "Discrimination and Trade Unions, 11 Orley Ashenfelter Reynolds - Ch. 59: "Women and American Trade Unions," Alice H. Cook Reynolds - Ch. 29: "The Other America," Michael Harrington Reynolds - Ch. 30: "The Poor Ye Need No t Have With You: Lessons From the War on Poverty, 11 Robert A. Levine Reynolds - Ch. 31: "On Improving the Economic Status of the Negro," James Tobin Reynolds - Ch. 32: "The Case for a Negative Income Tax Device, 11 Earl Rolph Reynolds - Ch. 33: "Welfare Reform and Work Incentives," Irwin Garfinkel and Stanley H. Masters Reynolds - Ch. 34: "Education and Poverty, " Thomas I. Ribich Reynolds - Ch. 35: "The Minimum Wage and Poverty, 11 Jacob J. Kaufman and Terry Foran Reynolds - Ch. 40: "The Process of Bargaining, " Harry Shulman and Neil W. Chamberlain Reynolds - Ch. 41: "The Sources of Union Power," Albert Rees

5 Page 4 v. Microeconomic Aspects of Trade Unions (cont'd. ) E. (cont'd.) VI. F. A. Rees - Ch. 15: Labor's Share in National Income Labor as a Movement (cont'd.) Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 11: Collective Bargaining I: The Structure and t he Process Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 12: Collec tive Bargaining II: Management Rights and Bargaining Power Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 13: Collecti ve Bargaini ng III: The Content and Administration of the Agreement Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 14 : Theories of the.labor Movement Macroeconomic Aspects of Labor Markets Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 20: Labor's Political Action Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 26: Strikes and the Public Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 27 : The Monopoly Powers of Unions Reynolds - Ch. 45: "Goals and Strategy i n Collective Bargaining," Frederick A. Harbison and John R. Coleman Reynolds - Ch. 46: "Bargaining Power," Neil W. Chamberlain and James Kuhn Reynolds - Ch. 4 7: "Indus trial Conflict and Its Mediation," Clark Kerr Reynolds - Ch. 48: "The Union Security Issue," Paul E. Sul tan Reynolds - Ch. 49: "Frontiers of Substantive Bargaining," Derek c. Bok and John T. Dunlop Reynolds - Ch. 36: ''Theories of the Labor Movement," Philip Taft Reynolds - Ch. 37: "A Theory of the Labor Movement," Selig Perlman Reynolds - Ch. 38: "The Development of Western Labor Movements: Some Comparative Considerations," Everett M. Kassalow Reynolds - Ch. 39: "Why the American Labor Movement Is Not Socialist," Walter Galenson Reynolds - Ch. 60: "Labor in National and State Politics," Derek C. Bok and John Dunlop Reynolds - Ch. 61: "Trade Unions and National Economic Policy," Jack Barbash Reynolds - Ch. 50 : "The 'Choice-o f- Procedures' Approach to National Emergency Disputes," W. Willard Wirtz Reynolds - Ch. 51: "Is Compulsory Arbitration Compatible with Bargaining?" Carl Stevens Reynolds - Ch. 52: "Trade Unionism Goes Public," Everett M. Kassalow

6 Pa ge 5 VI. Macroeconomic Aspects of Trade Unions (cont'd. ) A. (cont'd.) B. Rees - Ch. 16: The General Level of Money Wages Reynolds - Ch. 53: "The Limits of Collective Bargaining i n Public Employment," Harry H. Wellington and Ralph K. Winter Reynolds - Ch. 54: "The Role and Cons equences of Strikes by Public Employees," John F. Burton, Jr. and Charles Krider Reynolds - Ch, 55: "Professors, Unite!" Myron Lieberman Reynolds - Ch. 56: Joan London and Reynolds - Ch. 20: and Collective T. Dunlop "Cesar Chavez," HenryAnderson "Guideposts, Wages, Bargaining," John Reynolds - Ch. 21: "Cost-Push and Some Policy Alternatives, " Lloyd Ulman Reynolds - Ch. 22: "Thoughts on the Wage-Price Freeze," William Poole Reynolds - Ch. 23: "Inflation and Unemployment, " James Tobin VII. Labor a s the Subject of Social Protection Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 21: Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 22: Accidents and Illness Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 23: Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 24: a nd Retirement Unemployment Old Age Chamberlain & Cullen - Ch. 25: Poverty amid Plenty: The American Paradox