(Labor and Public Economics II second part of the sequence)
Lectures:
Tuesday 1:30-3:00 pm in # 320
Thursday 1:30-3:00 pm in # 320
Office hours: Thursday 3:30 5:30 pm or anytime by appointment
Exercise sessions: irregular
The last exercise session (on Problem set 3) will take place on Friday, April 10, 4:30 6 pm. Room #: 320
Next exercise session (on Problem set 2 empirical part) will take place on Wednesday, March 18, 4:30 6 pm. Room #: 320
Exercise session on Problem set 2 and a brief review for the Midterm exam will take place
during the usual lecture time on Tuesday, February 17, 1:30 3 pm. Room #: 320
Next exercise session will take place on Friday, February 6, 4:30 6 pm. Room #: 320
Next exercise session will take place on Wednesday, January 21, 4:30 6 pm. Room #: 320
Readings with direct links to papers
Background
Materials
Exercise Session 1 Problems and Solutions
Handout on Slutsky equation and the basic labor supply model
Labor Supply and Human Capital auxiliary slides from the class (preliminary, graphics and tables to be added )
Wage Structure Lectures All Slides Covered
Discrimination All slides (we covered the slides pp. 1-34)
Assignments
Assignments can be produced in pairs (one solution per two people), clearly indicating who the two authors are.
However, any plagiarism across pairs will be punished by point subtraction from all pairs involved.
Problem set 1 (Theoretical Part)
Problem set 1 (Empirical Part)
Problem set 2 (Theoretical Part)
Problem set 2 (Empirical Part)
Problem set 3 (Theoretical Part)
Problem set 3 (Empirical Part)
Problem set 3 will have a 40 % weight, while Problem sets 1 and 2 will have 30 % weight each in the overall points for Assignments.
Empirical Project
Empirical project distribution of grades
Exams
Midterm exam results distribution of grades
Final Exam will take place on April 20 at 11:00 pm in # 320.
Final exam results distribution of grades
Deadlines
Problem set 3 is due April 10 at 4 pm (in TAs mailbox). Do-files for the empirical part should be sent directly to the TA by email.
The deadline for the final version of the empirical project is April 7 at noon (put a hard copy to my mailbox and send it also to me via email).
The first draft of the empirical project is due March 19 at noon (put a hard copy to my mailbox).
Problem set 1 is due January 30 at 6 pm (in my mailbox). Do-files for the empirical part should be sent directly to the TA by email.
The outline of the empirical project is due February 5 at 6 pm (send via email).
Announcements
There will be a make-up class on Wednesday, April 8, 4:30-6 pm, at #320.
On Thursday, March5,
1:30-3:00 pm, at #320, there will be an exercise session (instead of the
lecture) during which Oleg will cover solutions to the Midterm.
Midterm exam will take place on February 20 at 1:30 pm in # 7.
On Thursday, February 12, the
class will consist of a lecture by Daniel Munich
On Tuesday, January 20, the class will consist of a lecture by Jan Svejnar.
The topic will be Labor Demand - lecture notes were distributed in class, please bring them with you on Tuesday!
Other background reading: Basu, Estrin, Svejnar (ILLR 2005)
Handbooks of Labor Economics are now available online through the reading list.
Interesting Links
Data Sources
The European University Institute library website has
a very good description of the main existing datasets (both micro and macro)
with links to their providers websites:
http://www.eui.eu/LIB/Guides/Economics/Statistics/IndexFile.shtml