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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

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)