Protesters from Wisconsin Jobs Now and Occupy Riverwest raise awareness about the need to increase the state's minimum wage. (Image by Wisconsin Jobs Now on Flickr. CC BY-NC.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. David Autor
Prof. Heidi Williams
MIT Course Number
14.662
As Taught In
Spring 2015
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
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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