teaching

Linas TARASONIS

Postdoctoral Fellow

Aix-Marseille School of Economics

Château Lafarge

Route des Milles

13290 Les Milles

l.tarasonis@gmail.com

+33 (0) 4 42 93 59 85

Labor Economics M1

Aix-Marseille School of Economics

Syllabus

Chapter 1 - Introduction

• Slides
• Capter one - Economics of Imperfect Labor Market
• Review Questions and Exercises
  • Chap 1 in Boeri & van Ours (2013), Chap 2-5,6 in Ehrenberg, Smith (2012)

Chapter 2 - Unions and Collective Bargaining

• Slides
  • Autume (2001) - exposition of standard theories in French (see section 1)
  • LABORSTA - statistics on trade unions and strikes
  • Blanchflower and Bryson (2002) on union wage gaps.
• Review Questions and Exercises
  • Chap 3 in Boeri & van Ours (2013), Chap 13 in Ehrenberg, Smith (2012)

Chapter 3 - Minimum Wage

• Slides
  • Card and Krueger (AER 1994) on New Jersey's minimum wage.
  • OECD Employment Outlook (2006) offers an overview of studies on impact of MW and unions on employment (see section 3).
• Review Questions and Exercises
  • Chap 2 in Boeri & van Ours (2013)

Chapter 4 - Discrimination

• Slides
• David Autor's lecture notes.
• Aiger and Cain (1977) - Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets
• Review Questions and Exercises
  • Chap 4 in Boeri & van Ours (2013), Chap 12 in Ehrenberg, Smith (2012)

Chapter 5 - Human Capital

• Slides
• Spence (1973) - Job Market Signaling
• Spence (2001) - Signaling in Retrospect
• Review Questions and Exercises
  • Chap 8 in Boeri & van Ours (2013), Chap 9 in Ehrenberg, Smith (2012)

Chapter 6 - Migration Policies

• Slides
  • Acemoglu (2002) - Technical Change, Inequality, and The Labor Market
• Review Questions
  • Chap 9 in Boeri & van Ours (2013)