Friday, April 4, sharp start at 3pm in #320

Excercise session: Introduction to programming

• Thomas MaCurdy: An Empirical Model of Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Setting,  Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 89, No. 6 (Dec., 1981), mainly pages 1059-1074  (Jstor)

Reading list:

Pay and productivity, efficiency wages, ownership (if time: Effects of international trade and FDI)

Mandatory:

Borjas: Labour Economics; chapter 11: Incentive Pay

Optional:

Ehrenberg and Smith: Modern Labour Markets: Chapter 11: Pay and Productivity: Wage determination within firm

Chevalier J. and Ellison G. (1999), “Career Concerns of Mutual Funds Managers”, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 114

Lazear E. (2000), “Performance Pay and Productivity”, American Economic Review, Vol. 90

Niederle, Muriel and Lise Vesterlund (2007), “Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(3): 1067- 1101.

Card, David, Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti, and Emmanuel Saez (2012): “ Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction” American Economic Review, 102(6): 2981–3003

Brown, J. (2011): “Quitters Never Win: The (Adverse) Incentive Effects of Competing with Superstars”, Journal of Political Economy 119(5).

• Borjas (5th edition; pp 407-412 on household production function;
• Get familiar with HBLE I, Chapter 4, pp. 273-302;

4 March - TUE
4:45-6:15pm
(Tetyana)

25 Feb - TUE
4:45-6:15pm
(Tetyana)

Useful Stata Commands (including margins, test, ttest, estout, rego and some other ones). Materials here.

Mandatory readings:

Mandatory readings:

Borjas: Labour Economics: The wage structure, Chapter 7;

Optional readings:

Popular media and policy reports:

Artificial data for the Human Capital model. Materials available here. 

Altonji, J. G.  & Dunn, T. A. (1996). sing siblings to estimate the effect of school quality on wages, Review of Economics and Statistics, 78(4), 665-671.

Angrist, J. D. (1999). Using Maimonides’ Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(2), 533-575.

Angrist, J. A. & Krueger A.B. (1991). Does compulsory school attendance affect schooling and earnings, Quarterly Journal of Economics 106(4), 979-1014.

Ashenfelter, O & Krueger, A. (1994).  Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling From a New Sample of Twins. American Economic Review. 84(5), 1157-1173.

Becker, G.S.  (1972). Schooling and inequality from generation to generation – comment, Journal of Political Economy, 80(3), S252-S255.

Behrman, J.R. & Birdsall, N. (1983). The quality of schooling – quantity alone is misleading, American Economic Review, 73(5), 928-946.

Griliches, Z. (1977). Estimating Returns to Education – Some Econometric Problems. Econometrica, 45(1), 1-22.

Harmon, C. & Walker, I. (1995). Estimates of the economic return to schooling for the United Kingdom, American Economic Review  85(5), 1278-1286.

McMahon, W. W. (2000). Education and Development: Measuring the Social Benefits. Clarendon Press.

Mincer, J. (1958). Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution. Journal of Political Economy, LXVI(4), 281-302.

Mincer, J. (1974). Schooling, experience, and earnings. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research.

Regression Diagnostics and Creating Random Data and Random Samples. Materials available here (updated scripts).

Mandatory readings:
*George J. BORJAS: “THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION”, In: Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, Edited by O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (1999); Chapter 28,  Elsevier Science B. V. 

*Borjas, G. and K. Doran (2012): "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2012. http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/127/3/1143.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=H8yAbesHD1a9rWA

*Parrotta, P., Pozzoli, D. and M Pytlikova (2014): Does Labour Diversity affect Firm Productivity? European Economic Review, Vol. 66, February 2014, Pages 144–179 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292113001670

*Parrotta, P., Pozzoli, D. and M. Pytlikova (2014): "The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation." Journal of Population Economics. Vol. 27, Issue 2, April 2014, pp 303-364. http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-013-0491-7

Optional readings
BORJAS George J.(2006): Native internal migration and the labor market impact of immigration. Journal of Human Resources, 41:2, 221-258

Borjas G. J. (2003): The labor demand curve is downward sloping: re-examining the impact of immigration on the labor market_, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 118, pp. 1135–74.

Card, D. E. (2001). Immigrant inflows, native outflows and the local labor market impacts of higher immigration, Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 19, pp. 22–64.

Card, D. (2005): Is the new immigration really so bad? The Economic Journal, 115:507, 300-323.

Alesina, A. and E. La Ferrara (2005): “Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance” Journal of Economic Literature, XLII, pp 762-800. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4129475?uid=3737856&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103461090853

-George J. BORJAS: “THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION”, In: Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, Edited by O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (1999); Chapter 28,  Elsevier Science B. V.

- Borjas: Labour Economics; Chapter 5 on compensating wage differentials

- Daniel S. Hamermesh, 1999. "Changing Inequality in Markets For Workplace Amenities," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 114(4), pp. 1085-1123

- G. Duncan and B. Holmlund. (1983) "Was Adam Smith Right After All? Another Test of the Theory of Compensating Differentials" Journal of Labor Economics, vol. , pp. 366-79. 1 

- M. Bertrand and S. Mullainathan. (2004) “Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha  and Jamal? A Field Experiment in Labor Market Discrimination,” AER 94 (Sept), pp. 991-1013.

- J. Altonji and R. Blank. (1999) “Race and Gender in the Labor Market.” In O.Ashenfelter and D. Card, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 3C, 3143-259.

- M. Bertrand. (2010) “New Perspectives on Gender,” Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 4B, 1543-90.

• Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980–2000, Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 25, No. 3 (July 2007), pp. 393-438, Jstor
• Association Changes in Labor Force Participation in the United States: Chinhui Juhn and Simon Potter, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer, 2006), pp. 27-46, Jstor

4.30 - 6pm

Excercise session #2 with Tetyana on Stata use (Summary statistics,tables and Missing values patterns). A session on the use of Web of Science to support your critical literature review search will be scheduled. Materials available here. And from the 1st session here.

Readings
J. Altonji and R. Blank. (1999) “Race and Gender in the Labor Market.” In O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 3C, 3143-259.
M. Bertrand. (2010) “New Perspectives on Gender.” In O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, eds.,Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 4B, 1543-90.

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