The supply of labor is unique among the supply of inputs. If you have a business in which you rent out heavy construction equipment your primary concern is probably for the profit you make renting out your equipment. Most likely your only reason for caring about the nature of the job for which you equipement will be used would be the condiditon in which your equipment will be returned. Issues such as job satisfaction, self worth, respect, advancement, workplace relationships, job vs home life and so forth rarely bother a backhoe (or so I'm told), but they are important to most humans, the owners and suppliers of labor.

    Because these and other work related issues are important to people our understanding of the supply of labor must include an understanding of these factors, indeed of any factor which might be of concern to someone in deciding when, for whom, and how much to work.

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