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OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS

By Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., LL.D. Revised and

enlarged by the Author and Thomas S. Adams,
Ph.D., Max O. Lorenz, Ph.D., Allyn A.
Young, Ph.D.
OUTLINES OF SOCIOLOGY •

By Frank W. Blackmar, Ph.D., and John Lewis
GiLLiN, Ph.D.
THE NEW AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

By James T. Young, Ph.D.
SOCIAL PROBLEMS

By Ezra T. Towne, Ph.D.
PROBLEMS OF CHILD WELFARE

By George B. Mangold, Ph.D.
COMPARATIVE FREE GOVERNMENT

By Jesse Macy, LL.D., and John W. Gannaway, M.A.
AMERICAN MUNICIPAL PROGRESS

By Charles Zueblin.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND COMBINATION
By Lewis H. Haney, Ph.D.

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (Revised Edi-
tion)

By Lewis H. Haney, Ph.D.
APPLIED EUGENICS

By Paul Popenoe and Roswell H. Johnson, M.S.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

By Henry C. Taylor, M.S. Agr., Ph.D.
THE LABOR MARKET

By Don D. Lescohier.



THE LABOR MARKET



BY

DON D. LESCOHIER

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin
Formerly Superintendent Minnesota Public Employ-
ment Office ; Chief Statistician, Minnesota
Department of Labor and Industries



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