First Part of the Course
LEC # | TOPICS |
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First Part - Prof. Oreopoulos | |
1 | Labor Market Statistics and Omitted Variables Bias Review |
2 |
The Neoclassical Labor Supply Model Basics The Life-Cycle Model Applications |
3 |
Labor Demand, Minimum Wages, and Anomalies Models of the Demand for Labor Minimum Wages Immigration Competitive Labor Market Anomalies |
4 |
Human Capital and the Econometrics of Individual Wage Determination Schooling, Experience, and Earnings Liquidity Constraints Compulsory Schooling |
5 | Intergenerational Mobility |
Second Part - Prof. Acemoglu | |
6 |
Incentives in Organizations Basic Theory of Moral Hazard and Incentives, and Applications to CEO Pay and Unempolyment Insurance Multitasking and Counter-Productive Incentives Career Concerns Additional Topic: Wage Dynamics (will not be covered in the lectures) Holdups and Investments Efficiency Wages, Unemployment and Organization of the Firm |
7 |
Search Models of the Labor Market Partial Equilibrium The Basic Search Framework Additional Material: Wage Dispersion and Composition of Jobs Additional Material: Risk Aversion and Insurance (will not be covered in the lectures) |
8 |
Investments in Skills Human Capital Over the Life Cycle Investments and Market Transactions Theories of Training Firm-Specific Capital |
9 |
Technology and the Labor Market Basic Patterns and Relative-supply-demand Framework Theories of Skill-Biased Technical Change and Returns to Skills Changes in the Composition of Jobs, Organizational Change, Superstars, and Hierarchies |
Second Part of the Course
LEC # | TOPICS |
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Skills Training, Holdups, and Specific Capital Investment | |
1 | Theories of the Provision and Payment of Training |
2 | Firm Specific Capital |
Incentives, Effort and Monitoring | |
3 | Efficiency Wage Theory |
4 | Efficiency Wage Evidence |
5 | Measurement, Monitoring, and Risk (Time Permitting) |
Information in Labor Markets: Self-Selection, Signaling and Discrimination | |
6 | Self Selection |
7 | Market Signaling |
8 | Labor Market Discrimination: Theory |
9 | Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence |
10 | Learning and Statistical Discrimination |
11 | Civil Rights Legislation and the Black/White Wage Gap |
Economics of Immigration | |
12 | Theory |
13 | Impacts on Earning and Employment of Natives |