NOTES:

Schedule is tentative depending on pace of lectures

* Means read for detail; unmarked means skim for content if you wish

Week 1-2: January 8-19:Preliminaries, Production, and Primal Estimation

*Cahuc and Zylberberg, Chapter 4 or Hamermesh, Chapters 2-3

Golub, Stephen and Chang-Tai Hsieh.. Review of International Economics (May 2000): 221-234.

Orazem, Review of Agricultural Economics 20 (Fall/Winter, 1998):489-501

Huang et al Economica (February 1998):125-143.

Hellerstein, Neumark and Troske. Journal of Labor Economics (July 1999):409-446.

Hellerstein, Neumark and Troske. Journal of Human Resources (Spring 2002): 353-380.

Solow, Journal of Macroeconomics (Winter 1979):79-82.

Shapiro and Stiglitz, American Economic Review(June 1984):433-444.

Hibbs and Locking, Journal of Labor Economics (October 2000):755-782.

Akerloff and Yellen, American Economic Review (May 1988):44-49.

Moretti, Enrico. American Economic Review (June 2004): 656-690.

Weeks 3-5: January 22-February 9: Dual Methods, Hicks-Marshall Laws of Derived Demand, Technical Change

*Katz and Autor, Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chpt 26

Adams, James D. "The Structure of Firm R&D, the Factor Intensity of Production, and Skill Bias." Review of Economics and Statistics August 1999

Ollinger, MacDonald and Madison. American Journal of Agricultural Economics(February 2005): 116-129.

Card and Lemieux, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (May 2001):705-746.

Caselli, Francesco and Wilbur John Coleman II. “The World Technology Frontier.” American Economic Review 96 (March 2006): 499-522.

 

Kremer, Michael.  “The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development.” Quarterly Journal of Economics. 108 (August 1993): 551-575.

Hanson, Gordon H. “Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States.” Journal of Economic Literature 44 (December 2006): 869-924

Week 6: February 12-16 Effects of Labor Market Policies

Problem Set 1 due February 23

Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel (2005) “Unemployment in the OECD Since the 1960s. What Do We Know?” The Economic Journal 115 (500), 1–27

Autor, David "Outsourcing at Will: The contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing." Journal of Labor Economics January 2003.

Trejo, Stephen J. "Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks? Industrial and Labor Relations Review April 2003.

Additional Background

Cahuc, Pierre and André Zylberberg. Chapter 12; or

Nickell and Layard. "Labor Market Institutions and Economic Performance" in Ashenfelter and Card eds.

Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3C, Chapter 46.1999; or

Blau and Kahn. "Institutions and Laws in Labor Markets." in Ashenfelter and Card eds. Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chapter 25. 1999.

Weeks 7-9: February 19-March 5: Earnings Inequality, Discrimination, Intergenerational transmission

Problem Set 1 due February 23

*Katz and Autor, Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chpt 26

Lemieux, Thomas. “Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill?” American Economic Review 96 (March 2006): 461-498.

Dunne, Timothy, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Kenneth R. Troske. Journal of Labor Economics (April 2004): 397-430.

 

Beaudry, Paul and David A. Green. “Changes in U.S. Wages, 1976-2000: Ongoing Skill Bias or Major Technological Change?” Journal of Labor Economics 23 (July 2005): 609-648.

 

Becker, G.S. and N. Tomes (1986) “Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families.” Journal of Labor Economics 4: S12-S37. Also Chapter 10 in Becker, G.S. (1993) Human Capital.  Third Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.”

 

Lord, William A. (2002) Household Dynamics: Economic Growth and Policy.  Chapters 5-7.

 

Solon, G.R. (2002) “Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.”  Journal of Economic Perspectives 16:59-66.

 

Hsieh, Chang Tai and Keong Woo. “The Impact of Outsourcing to China on Hong Kong's Labor Market.” American Economic Review December 2005

 

Eide, Eric and Mark Showalter. “Factors Affecting the Transmission of Earnings Across Generations.”  Journal of Human Resources (Spring 1999): 253-267.

Week 10: March 12-16: Spring Break

Week 11-13: March 19-April 6: Discrimination, Sorting, Self-Selection, Piece Rates

NOTE NO CLASS MARCH 23

*Lazear Personnel Economics  (1995) Chpts. 1-2

*Willis, Handbook of Labor Economics (Volume 1, Chapter 10): pp.525-530; 541-556; 570-590;

Altonji and Blank, Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3C, Chapter 48, pp. 3144-3164

Holzer, Harry and David Neumark. “Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified?  Evidence for Employer-Employee Data on New Hires.” Journal of Labor Economics 17 (July 1999):534-569.

Lazear(1998), Chapter 3 and pp. 358-365.

*Lazear, American Economic Review (December 2000):1346-1361.

Brown, Charles. "Firms' Choice of Method of Pay." in Ehrenberg ed. Do Compensation Policies Matter? 1990. 165-182. Also published in vol 43 of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review

*Lazear, Edward P. “Entrepreneurship.”  Journal of Labor Economics (October 2005): 649-680.

 

Gibbons, Robert, Lawrence Katz, Thomas Lemieux, and Daniel Parent. “Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination.” Journal of Labor Economics (October 2005): 681-724.

 

Schultz, Theodore W. (1975) “The value of the ability to deal with disequilibria,” Journal of Economic Literature 13: 827-846

 

*Hamilton, Barton H. “Does entrepreneurship pay? An empirical analysis of the returns to self-employment.”  Journal of Political Economy 108 (June 2000): 604-631.

Week 14-15: April 9-20: Experimental and Nonexperimental Design for Evaluation

*Angrist and Krueger, Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chapter 23.

Heckman, Lalonde and Smith, Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chapter 31.

Heckman, James, and Jeffrey Smith. Journal of Labor Economics April 2004. 85-110.

Week 16: April 23-27: Tournaments, Executive Compensation

Lazear, Personnel Economics Chapters 3, 5

Also

Murphy, Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3b, Chapter 38.

Bognano, "Corporate Tournaments." Journal of Labor Economics (April 2001):290-315.

Bertrand and Mullainathan, "Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are" Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 2001):901-932

Audas, Rick, Tim Barmby and John Treble. "Luck, Effort and Reward in an Organizational Hierarchy" Journal of Labor Economics (April 2004): 379-396.

Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan. “Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences.” Journal of Political Economy 111 (October 2003): 1043-1075.