Topics in Labour Economics – EC9C5 – Roland’s part
Part 1
Labour markets at the competitive equilibrium
Topics
- Basic model of labour markets in competitive equilibrium
- Hedonic theory and compensating differentials
- Imperfections: example of monopsony
- Minimum wages
Reading
- Bonhomme and Jolivet (2009)
- Mas and Pallais (2017)
- Wiswall and Zafar (2017)
- Sorkin (2017)
- Card and Krueger (1994)
- Neumark and Wascher (2007)
- Dube, Lester and Reich (2010)
- Draca, Machin and Van Reenen (2011)
- Cengiz, Dube, Lindner and Zipperer (2017)
- Harasztosi and Lindner (2017)
Part 2
Unemployment Insurance
Empirical aspects of job search
Active Labour Market Policies
Topics
- Empirical aspects of job search
- UI and labour market outcomes: theory
- UI and exit from unemployment: empirics
- UI and post-unemployment outcomes: empirical
- Active Labour Market Policies: Meta-Analysis
- Active Labour Market Policies: Externalities
- How to help job seekers look for a job: new approaches
Reading
- Refresher on Search and Matching theory
- Nekoei and Weber (2017)
- Krueger and Müller (2016)
- Lalive, Van Ours and Zweimüller (2006)
- Card, Chetty and Weber (2007a)
- Card, Chetty and Weber (2007b)
- Baker and Fradkin (2016)
- Marinescu (2016)
- Lalive, Landais, Zweimüller(2015)
- Card, Kluve, Weber (2010)
- Crépon, Duflo, Gurgand, Rathelot, Zamora (2013)
- Horton (forthcoming)
- Belot, Kircher and Muller (2016)
Part 3
Economics of education
Topics
- Human capital theory
- Empirical estimation of the returns to education
- Signalling theory
- Class size
- Teachers value-added
- Peer effects and rank effects
Reading
- Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff (2014b)
- Angrist and Krueger (1991)
- Card (1995)
- Carneiro, Heckman, and Vytlacyl (2011)
- Buckles and Hungerman (2013)
- Zimmerman (2014)
- Clark and Martorell (2014)
- Angrist and Lavy (1999)
- Krueger (1999)
- Duflo (2001)
- Duflo, Dupas, Kremer (2015)
- Chetty et al. (2014a)
- Rothstein (2015)
- Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011)
- Bold et al. (2017)
- Epple and Romano (2011)
- Sacerdote (2001)
- Duflo, Dupas, Kremer (2011)
- Black (1999)
- Elsner and Isphording (2017)
- The triptych Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff (2014a), Rothstein (2017) and Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff (2017)