Teaching 2014-2015

Linas' Course Material

Introduction to Latex, PhD mini-course

Aix-Marseille School of Economics

Syllabus

Part 1 : The Basics (slides)

Part 2: Structured Documents & More (slides)

Part 3: Not Just Papers: Presentations & More (slides)

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
• Becker's Contribution to the Analysis of Discrimination (Flinn 2015)
• 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
• The Economist on Dustmann and Frattini (2014)
• Chap 9 in Boeri & van Ours (2013)

Past Final Exams: 2014 (Solutions)