Introduction -- Overview of the labor market -- The demand for labor -- Labor demand elasticities -- Quasi-fixed labor costs and their effects on demand -- Supply of labor to the economy: the decision to work -- Labor supply: household production -- The family, and the life cycle -- Compensating wage differentials and labor markets -- Investments in human capital: education and training -- Worker mobility: migration, immigration and turnover -- Pay and productivity: wage determination within the firm -- Gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market -- Unions and the labor market -- Inequality in earnings -- Unemployment.