LABOR ECONOMICS II- Spring 2019, Course
outline TEACHERS: Mariola Pytliková (MP) & Daniel Münich (DM). TA: Ekaterina Travova Office hours: Mariola: Wednesdays 13.30-15.00 or upon request (please write me an email!) TIME: Typically, our lectures are scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:30-13.00. The exercise sessions on Fridays PLACE: Lecture room no 3. For Exercise sessions we will use Computer Lab. But please check the course's website for exceptions! |
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Tuesday 8 January, 2019 11:30am-13.00 (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 the most recent OECD International Migration Outlook 2018, or in previous versions of the Outlook. Literature for the course:
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!!CANCELLED!! Thursday 10 January, 2019 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) !!CANCELLED!! | !!! LECTURE CANCELLED !!! |
Tuesday, 15 January, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Economics of Migration - Determinants of
Migration I Hand notes: Determinants of Migration I Handouts Compulsory Readings:
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INFO | INFO about ASSIGNMENTS Dear Students, you may find some first information on the assignment HERE in the pdf file. Recommended data sources: 1.
PIAAC 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) 4. OECD DIOC-E Database on Immigrants (info on 100
destination countries and more than 200 countries of origin),
information on demographic characteristics (age and gender),
duration of stay,
labour market outcomes (labour market status, occupations, sectors of
activity), fields of study, educational attainment and the place of
birth in OECD and non-OECD Countries 5. World Bank WDI (macro data) and/or OECD Source Stats (macro data) 6. EBRD Life in Transition Survey (micro data, years 2006, 2010, 2016)7. European Value Survey-World Value Survey (EVS-WWS), years 1981-2017 (micro) |
Thursday, 17 January, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Economics of Migration - Determinants of
Migration II Hand notes: Determinants of Migration II Handouts Compulsory Readings:
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LECTURE MOVED DUE TO SICKNESS! Tuesday, 22 January, 11.30-13.00 (Pytliková) Room 3 | Lectured cancelled/replacement in the midterm week |
Wednesday 23 January, 15.45-17.15 (Ekaterina Travova) PC LAB | Exercise session on; Panel data methods; MATERIALS can be downloaded from HERE Place:PC LAB |
Thursday 24 January,
11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Economics of Migration - Who moves?
Selectivity in Migration Hand notes: Selection in Migration Handouts Compulsory Readings:
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Tuesday, 29 January, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Economics of Migration - Who moves? Selectivity in Migration, CONT |
Thursday, 31 January, 11:30am-13.00 | Immigrant performance, assimilation and integration. The second generation. Hand notes: Immigrant performance patterns_handouts Compulsory Readings:
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Friday, 1 February 2019, 11 am | !! Deadline for a group formation and choice of topic of the student assignment!!! |
Tuesday, 5 February, 11.30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS - to be replaced on the midterm week |
Wednesday 6 February, 15.45-17.15 (Ekaterina Travova) PC LAB | Exercise session on: EVALUATION METHODS - Diff- in -Diff; IV; Matching; RDD; MATERIALS: TBA Place:PC LAB |
Thursday, 7 February, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Impacts of immigration on destinations - Employment and Wages Hand notes: Impact of immigration on destinations Handouts Compulsory Readings:
Other
Relevant Literature (optional):
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Tuesday, 12 February, 11.30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | A make-up lecture for 22.1. Wider effects of immigration; Ethnic diversity; International migration and globalization. Hand notes: Wider effects of immigration I Compulsory Readings:
Other
Relevant Literature (optional):
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Thursday, 14 February, 11.30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | A make-up lecture for 5.2. Wider effects of immigration; Cont Hand notes: Wider Effects of Immigration II; WIDER Effects of Immigration III_Income and Inequality Compulsory Readings:
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Tuesday, 19 February, 11.30-13.00 (Pytliková) | Wider effects of immigration, Cont. - Research frontiers Hand notes: Wider effects of immigration IV Research frontiers Compulsory Readings:
Emigration and source countries; Brain drain and brain gain; Remittances; Hand notes: Emigration and source countries Compulsory Readings:
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Wednesday 20 February, 15.45-17.15 (Ekaterina Travova) PC LAB | Exercise session on: EVALUATION METHODS - Diff- in -Diff; IV; Matching; RDD; MATERIALS: to be downloaded from HERE Place:PC LAB |
Thursday, 21 February, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) |
Immigration Policy - some final thoughts on the Economics of Migration Hand notes: Immigration Policy Compulsory Readings:
•Borjas
6e, Chapter 8 labor mobility; and Chapter 4 (policy application 4-5).
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Tuesday, 26 February, 11:30am-13.00 (Daniel Münich) | COMPENSATING WAGE DIFFERENTIALS
Economics everywhere: 16_Economics_everywhere_Schools_for_small_families.pdf Handout: 18_Equalizing_wage_differentials Mandatory readings:
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Thursday, 28 February, 11:30am-13.00 (Daniel Münich) | COMPENSATING WAGE DIFFERENTIALS, Cont., Statistical Value of Life
Economics everywhere: 17_Economics_everywhere_Welfare_in_Africa_Language.pdf Handouts:
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Tuesday, 5 March, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Pay & productivity-wage determination within the firm, incentive pay; HRM practices and productivity Hand notes: Performance Pay, HRM practices and productivity_handouts 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 Lazear, E and K. Shaw (2007),: “Personnel Economics: The
Economist’s View of Human Resources”, Journal of Economic Perspectives 5,
pp.45-66 Bloom, N., Van
Reenen, J., 2011. “Human resource management and productivity”. In:
Ashenfelter, O., Card, D. (Eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 4b., pp.
1697–1767 Oyer, P. and S.
Schaefer (2011): “Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives”. In: Ashenfelter,
O., Card, D. (Eds.) Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 4b. Elsevier, 1769-1823 Breza, Emily,
Supreet Kaur and Yogita Shamdasani. “The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Volume 133, Issue 2, 1 May 2018, Pages 611–663 Anat Bracha, Uri
Gneezy, and George Loewenstein. Relative Pay and Labor Supply. Journal of
Labor Economics, April 2015, Vol. 33, No. 2: 297-315. Hamilton, B., J.
Nickerson, and H. Owan, “Team Incentives and Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical
Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity and Participation”. Journal
of Political Economy 111(3),June 2003: 465-497. Babcock, Philip,
Kelly Bedard, Gary Charness, John Hartman, and Heather Royer. “Letting Down the
Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Teams” Journal of the European Economic
Association, 2015: 841-870. Ariely, Dan;
Kamenica, Emir; Prelec, Drazen. “Man's Search for Meaning: The Case of Legos” Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 67, no. 3-4, September 2008,
pp. 671-77 Kremer, Michael,
Supreet Kaur, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2015. “Self
Control at Work.” Journal of Political Economy 123 (6): 1227 – 1277 Kuhn, Peter and
Marie Claire Villeval. "Are Women More Attracted to Team Incentives than
Men?", Economic Journal, February 2015 Griffith, Rachel;
Neely, Andrew. “Performance Pay and Managerial Experience in Multitask Teams:
Evidence from within a Firm” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 27, no. 1,
January 2009, pp. 49-82. |
INFO | FURTHER INFO ABOUT ASSIGNMENTS AND THE MINI-CONFERENCE: SEE THE PDF HERE |
Wednesday, 6 March, 15.45-17.15 (Ekaterina Travova) PC LAB | Exercise session on: matching CONT, and survival analyses MATERIALS: HERE Place:PC LAB |
Thursday, 7 March, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Pay, HRM & productivity CONT. |
Tuesday, 12 March, 11:30am-13.00 (Pytliková) | Labor Market Effects of International Trade and Globalization Hand notes: Trade and Labor handouts Compulsory Readings: Cahuc, Carcillo and Zylberberg, Labor Economics, Chapter 11, Globalization, employment and inequality Other Relevant Readings: Ehrenberg and Smith: Modern Labor Economics, Chapter 16, the Labor Market Effects of International Trade and Production Sharing 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 |
Thursday, 14 March, 11:30am-13.00 (Daniel Münich) |
Handouts:
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Tuesday, 19 March, 2019 NOON (SHARP!!) | DEADLINE FOR SENDING DRAFT ASSIGNMENTS You should submit an electronic copy of your draft assignment to Mariola.pytlikova@cerge-ei.cz NOTE THERE IS NO LECTURE so that you have the time to prepare your presentation and discussant's comments |
Thursday, 21 March, 2019 11.20-14.00 ROOM 3 |
MINI CONFERENCE, final programme to be found HERE |
Tuesday, 26 March, 11:30am-13.00 | MINI CONFERENCE CONT, If time - shortly about Retirement and Aging Handouts: Retirement and Aging Readings: Tito Boeri and Jan Van Ours: Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets. Princeton University Press. Chapter 6: Retirement Programs. Optional: Bratberg, Holmås and Thøgerson (2004): “ Assessing the effects of an early retirement program” Journal of Population Economics 17, pp. 387-408 Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Søren Leth-Petersen, Torben Heien Nielsen and Tore Olsen (2014): “Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 129, Issue 3, August 2014, Pages 1141–1219, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qju013 |
Tuesday 2.4.2019 11.30 ROOM 320 (3rd floor) | WRITTEN EXAM Questions about exam content will be answered at the beggining of morning lecture on Tuesday 26.3.2019 Sample exam |
Tuesday 11.4.2019! | DEADLINE for your FINAL ASSIGNMENT's submission. By email to: Mariola.pytlikova@cerge-ei.cz |