Labor economics ii
Master
In Maynard (USA)
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Master
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Maynard (USA)
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This is a graduate course in labor economics. The course will focus on covering theory and evidence on inequality, wage structure, skill demands, employment, job loss, and early-life determinants of long-run outcomes. Particular areas of focus are: (1) wage determination, including the Roy model, equalizing wage differentials, and models of discrimination; (2) the roles played by supply, demand, institutions, technology and trade in the evolving distribution of income.
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- Economics
Course programme
Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / week
14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy or 15.660 Strategic Human Resource Management.
In addition to attending lecture and recitation, students are strongly encouraged to attend the weekly labor economics lunch workshop (1 session / week, 1 hour / session) as well as the joint labor / public finance / Sloan applied microeconomics seminar (1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session). For your dining and socializing pleasure, there will also be a class dinner each week.
The class 14.999 Topics in Inequality taught by Daren Acemoglu, David Autor, and Ivan Werning, was offered for the first time in Spring 2015, meeting 1 session / week for 1.5 hours / session. There will be limited overlap between 14.662 and 14.999. Please plan to attend (at least) the first three lectures of 14.999 which will be taught by Autor. These three lectures will dovetail with 14.662 and should be considered part of the 14.662 sequence.
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Labor economics ii