Week
1, Janury 14: Introduction to Labor Markets
Start Chpts.
1, 2, 15
Hand Out Problem Set 1
Week
2, January 21: Unemployment and Labor Market Flexibility
Complete Chpts.
1,2,15, Start Chpt. 3
Wall Street
Journal article on Downward Mobility: How do Wages Adjust?
Problem Set 1 due on January 24
Hand out Problem Set 2
Week
3, January 28: Short-run Demand
Complete Chpts.
3,15
PowerPoint: Can Labor Productivity Cause Unemployment?
Problem Set 2 due on January 31
Hand out Problem Set 3
Week
4, February 4: Long-Run Demand, Complements and Substitutes, International
Competitiveness
Chpt. 3,
4, 5:pp.131-143
Problem Set 3 due on February 7
Hand out Problem Set 4
Week
5, February 11: Overtime and Hours Restrictions, Monopoly, Monopsony,
Own-Wage and Cross-Price Elasticities
Chpts. 4,
5:pp.131-143; 158-159
Overtime
Example
Overtime EXCEL file
Problem Set 4 due on February 14
Hand out Problem Set 5
Week
6, February 18: Minimum Wages, Two-Sector Models, Laws of Derived Demand,
Inequality, Capital-Skill Complementarity
Chpts. 4,
5:pp.131-143; 158-159; 14
Problem Set 5 due on February 21
Week
7, February 25: Wrap up Labor Demand and Inequality, Introduce Labor Supply,
Midterm 1
Start Chpt.
6
Thursday February 28: Midterm 1 Covers Chpts
1-5, 14, 15
Week
8, March 3: REVIEW EXAM, CONTINUE LABOR SUPPLY INTRO
Week
9, March 10: Introduction and applications of the Labor-Leisure model
Chpts. 6,7
Hand out Problem Set 6
Week 10: Spring
Break. Please Drive Safely
Week
11, March 24: Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Household Production,
Life-Cycle Labor Supply
Chpts. 6,7
Problem Set 6 due March 27
Week
12, March 31: Human Capital, Turnover, Education, Internal Labor Markets
Chpts. 5,9
Hand Out Problem Set 7
Week
13, April 7: Public and Private Educational Investments and Returns, Migration,
Screening
Chpts. 5,9, 10
Problem Set 7 due April 10
Hand Out Problem Set 8
Week 14, April 14:
Compensating Differentials, Risk, Quality of Life, OSHA
Chpts. 8,
11
Problem
Set 8 due April 17
Hand out Problem Set 9
Week
15, April 21: Complete Compensating Differentials, Benefits, ERISA, Cafeteria
Plans, Deferred Compensation, Tournaments, MIDTERM II
Chpts. 8, 11
Problem
Set 9 due April 22
Week
16, April 28: Complete Deferred Compensation and Tournaments, Discrimination
Anti Discriminatory Legislation
PowerPoint:
Discrimination
Chpts.
11, 12
Week 17, Final, Cumulative