Labor Economics II- Spring 2016, Course
outline | Mariola Pytliková
(MP) & Daniel
Münich (DM). TA: Liyousew
Borga Office hours: upon request Typically, our lectures are scheduled on Mondays from 15:00-16.30 and on Tuesdays from 9.00-10.30 But please check the course's website for exceptions! |
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Sunday 10.4.2016 | DEADLINE for FINAL ASSIGNMENTS submission. |
Thursday 31.3.2016 10.30-12.00 Room 7 | WRITTEN EXAM Questions about exam content will be answered at the beggining of morning lecture on Tuesday 22.3. Sample exam |
Tuesday 22 March 10.30-12.00 (Pytliková) | ALMP; Retirement and Aging Hand notes: ALMP and Retirement policies. Readings: Cahuc, Carcillo and Zylberberg, Labor Economics, Chapter 14, Active labor market policies. Tito Boeri and Jan Van Ours (2008): Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets. Princeton University Press. Chapter 6: Retirement Programs, pp. 121-137. |
Monday 21 March 15-16.30 (Pytliková) | Effects of international trade and FDI, Production sharing, Cont. Hand notes: Effects of Trade and Globalization Compulsory Readings: Cahuc, Carcillo and Zylberberg, Labor Economics, Chapter 11, Globalization, employment and inequality Ehrenberg and Smith: Modern Labor Economics, Chapter 16, the Labor Market Effects of International Trade and Production Sharing Other Relevant Readings: Dutt P., Mitra, D. and P. Ranjan (2009): "International trade and unemployment: Theory and cross-national evidence" Journal of International Economics, 2009, vol. 78, is.1, pp 32-44. Felbermayr,G. Prat, J.and HJ Schmerer (2011): "Trade and unemployment: What do the data say" European Economic Review 55 (6), pp. 741-758. Hummels, D., Munch J.R. and Ch. Xiang (2016): Offshoring and Labor Markets. IZA DP No 9741. Eriksson, T., Pytlikova, M and F. Warzynski (2013): "Increased Sorting and Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic: New Evidence Using Linked Employer-Employee Dataset." Economics of Transition, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 357-380. |
Tuesday 15 March 12.00-13.30 (Pytliková,Münich) | MINI CONFERENCE, Part II. |
Tuesday 15 March 8.30.00-10.30 (Pytliková,Münich) | MINI CONFERENCE, Part I. Please find info about the final programme HERE |
Monday 14 March 16.30 | Research seminar by Prof. Maia Güell on "Unemployment Duration Variance Decomposition à la ABS: Evidence from Spain” |
Monday 14 March, 9.30-12.45 (13.45-15 for interested). | Urban economics conference titled “Economics of Livable Cities”, CERGE-EI. It would be great if you could make it at least for the first session 10-12.45 (9.30-10 welcome and opeing remarks) with Gulia Faggio, Jens SUedekum and Stephan Heblich, the papers are related to Labor Econ. Suggested readings: A) Papers that will be presented during
the conference: 1) https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=RESConf2016&paper_id=580 3) http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0094119014000746/1-s2.0-S0094119014000746-main.pdf?_tid=3058322a-dcc5-11e5-b0d6-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1456517698_e654a7967a7284c8fbb9e854f6a84e13and http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/textonly/SERC/publications/download/sercdp0152.pdf B) some complementary literature in the field. |
Monday 14 March 15-16.30 (Pytliková) | Effects of international trade and FDI, Production sharing Hand notes: Effects of Trade and Globalization Compulsory Readings: Cahuc, Carcillo and Zylberberg, Labor Economics, Chapter 11, Globalization, employment and inequality Ehrenberg and Smith: Modern Labor Economics, Chapter 16, the Labor Market Effects of International Trade and Production Sharing Other Relevant Readings: Dutt P., Mitra, D. and P. Ranjan (2009): "International trade and unemployment: Theory and cross-national evidence" Journal of International Economics, 2009, vol. 78, is.1, pp 32-44. Felbermayr,G. Prat, J.and HJ Schmerer (2011): "Trade and unemployment: What do the data say" European Economic Review 55 (6), pp. 741-758. Hummels, D., Munch J.R. and Ch. Xiang (2016): Offshoring and Labor Markets. IZA DP No 9741. Eriksson, T., Pytlikova, M and F. Warzynski (2013): "Increased Sorting and Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic: New Evidence Using Linked Employer-Employee Dataset." Economics of Transition, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 357-380. |
Sunday 13. March, 16.00 | DEADLINE FOR DRAFT ASSIGNMENTS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE MINI-CONFERENCE (by email to mariola.pytlikova@cerge-ei.cz) |
INFO | INFO about assignments and the mini conference - incl. preliminary programme of the mini-conference/version 2. |
Wednesday 9 March 9-10.30 (Liyou Borga) | Exercise session on Duration Analysis Please find the data and script files HERE in the zipped folder. Please find the SLIDES HERE. |
Tuesday 8 March 9.00-10.30 (Daniel Münich) | Analysis of teachers' incentives to raise the quality of instruction Advance readings: EENEE Analytical Report http://www.eenee.de/dms/EENEE/Analytical_Reports/EENEE_AR26.pdf Readings: Analysis
of incentives to raise the quality of instruction Economics everywhere: |
Monday 7 March 15-16.30 (Daniel Münich) | Topics in Economics of Education Advance readings: EEAG (2016), The EEAG Report on the European Economy, “Tuning Secondary Education” CESifo, Munich 2016 Mandatory readings: Chapter 2 in the Handbook of the Economics of Education by Hanushek and
Woessmann, Vol 2 Economics everywhere: The best—and worst—places to be a working woman |
Tuesday 1 March 9.00-10.30 (Pytliková) | Pay & productivity-wage determination within the firm, incentive pay, efficiency wages Hand notes: Pay and productivity PPT Slides on Foreign Ownership Premia in Emerging Economies_Evidence from Czech Republic Compulsory Readings: Borjas 6e, Chapter 11 Incentive Pay; Lazear E. (2000): "Performance Pay and Productivity", American Economic Review, Vol 90. Other Relevant Literature (optional): Card, D., Mas, A, Moretti, E. and E. Saez (2012): "Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction" American Economic Review, 102(6), pp. 2981-3003. Brown, J. (2011): "Quitters Never Win: The (Adverse) Incentive Effects of Competing with Superstars" Journal of Political Economy 119(5), Eriksson, T. and M. Pytlikova (2011): "Foreign Ownership Premia in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Czech Republic", Economics of Transition, Vol 19(2), pp.371-395. |
Monday 29 February 16.30 Applied Micro Research Seminar | Seminar by Prof. Hessel Oosterbeek on "The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice" (I encourage you to attend the seminar, which is very relavant for our course). |
Monday 29 February 15-16.30 (Pytliková) | Family and work; family policies Hand notes: Family and work. Compulsory Readings: Borjas 6e, Chapter 2 labor supply; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta (2014): Expansions in maternity leave coverage and mothers' labor market outcomes after childbirth. In: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 32, No. 3, S. 469-505. Other Relevant Literature (optional): Ehrenberg and Smith, Modern Labor Economics, chapter 6. Boeri and van Ours: Imperfect Labor Markets, Chapters 5, 6 and 7. Dustmann, C. and U. Schoenberg (2011): "Expansions in maternity leave and Children's Long-Term Outcomes" American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4(3), pp. 190-224. Goldin C. (2014): A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter. American Economic Review. 104(4):1091-1119. |
Wednesday 24. February, 11.00am | Seminar Perspectives on the European Economy presenting a report by EEAG and CESifo. The report focuses on four issues: * Jan-Egbert Sturm (KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich) * Kamil Galuščák (Czech National Bank) |
Tuesday 23 February 9.00-10.30 (Pytliková) | Emigration and source countries; Brain drain and brain gain; Remittances. Hand notes: Emigration and source countries. Compulsory Readings:
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Monday 22 February 15-16.30 (Pytliková) | Wider effects of immigration; International migration and globalization. Cont. Hand notes: Wider Effects of Immigration, Cont. Compulsory Readings:
Other
Relevant Literature (optional)
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Wednesday | Exercise session on Evaluation problems, Causal
inference and Identification Strategies Handouts to be downloaded HERE. |
Tuesday 16 February 9.00-10.30 | Wider effects of immigration; International migration and globalization. Hand notes: Wider effects of immigration. Compulsory Readings:
Other
Relevant Literature (optional):
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Monday 15 February 15-16.30 | The second generation. Impacts of immigration on destinations. Hand notes: The second generation_Impact of immigration. Compulsory Readings:
Other
Relevant Literature (optional):
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Wednesday 10 February |
DEADLINE FOR GROUP
FORMATION AND TOPIC OF YOUR ASSIGNMENT (by email to
mariola.pytlikova@cerge-ei.cz) |
Monday 8 February, 15:00-16.30 (Pytliková) | Immigrant performance, assimilation and integration. Hand notes: Assimilation of immigrants. Compulsory Readings:
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Wednesday 3 February 9-10.30 (Liyou Borga) | Exercise session on Panel Data. Please download the zip folder with data and do-files neccessary for the exercise session. Handouts to be downloaded HERE. |
INFO | INFO about ASSIGNMENTS Dear Students, you may find some first information on the assignment HERE in the pdf file. Recommended data sources: 1.
PIACC data (micro data) – International code-book of variables 2. International migration dataset by Pytlikova (2011), used in Adsera and Pytlikova, EJ 2015 (macro data) 3. IAB Brain Drain Data (macro) 3.
World Bank WDI (macro data) and/or OECD Source
Stats (macro data) 4.
EBRD Life in Transition Survey (micro data) |
Tuesday 2 February, 8:30-10am (Pytliková) | Economics of Migration - Who moves? Selectivity in Migration Hand notes: Selectivity in Migration Compulsory Readings:
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Monday 1 February, 15:00-16.30 (Pytliková) | Economics of Migration - Determinants of Migration II Hand notes: Determinants of Migration II Compulsory Readings:
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Tuesday 26 January, 8:30-10am (Daniel Münich) | Duration models, continued Handnotes: 10_Hand_notes_Duration_models.pdf Readings: Pages 646-661 in: Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Jun., 1988), pp. 646-679 http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2726365 Optional readings: Labor_Econ_Everywhere_10.pdf Labor_Econ_Everywhere_09.pdf Recommended reading: Borjas (5th edition) Chapter 8 on Labor Moibility, pp. 349-356 on job search and turnover. Borjas (5th edition) Chapter 12 on Unemployment, pp. 504-518 on search and equilibrium unemployment. Optional reading on the matching function literature: Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function, Petrongolo, Barbara, and Christopher A. Pissarides. 2001. "Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function." Journal of Economic Literature, 39(2): 390-431. |
Monday 25 January, 15:00-16.30 (Daniel Münich) |
Duration models Handnotes: 10_Hand_notes_Duration_models.pdf Readings: Pages 646-661 in: Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Jun., 1988), pp. 646-679 http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2726365 Optional readings: Labor_Econ_Everywhere_10.pdf Labor_Econ_Everywhere_09.pdf Recommended reading: Borjas (5th edition) Chapter 8 on Labor Moibility, pp. 349-356 on job search and turnover. Borjas (5th edition) Chapter 12 on Unemployment, pp. 504-518 on search and equilibrium unemployment. Optional reading on the matching function literature: Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function, Petrongolo, Barbara, and Christopher A. Pissarides. 2001. "Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function." Journal of Economic Literature, 39(2): 390-431. |
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January, 8:30-10am (Pytliková) LECTURE CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS. TO BE RESCHEDULED! | LECTURE CANCELLED. TO BE RESCHEDULED Economics of Migration - Who moves? Selectivity in Migration |
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January, 15:00-16.30 (Pytliková) LECTURE CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS. TO BE RESCHEDULED! | LECTURE CANCELLED. TO BE RESCHEDULED Economics of Migration - Determinants of Migration II |
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January, 8:30-10am (Pytliková) |
Economics of Migration - Determinants of Migration I Hand notes: Handouts Determinants of migration I Compulsory Readings:
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January, 15:00-16.30 (Pytliková) |
Introduction to the course;
Economics of migration, introduction, trends and concepts Hand notes: Introduction Optional Readings: Ferrie and Hatton: "Two Centuries of Migration" In Chiswick and Miller ed. (2015): Handbook of International Migration, Vol, 1A List in OECD International Migration Outlook for 2015 or 2014 Literature for the course:
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