Labor Economics II

Catalog description

This is the second course in a two-course, graduate-level sequence in labor economics. The course will focus on covering theory and evidence on wage structures, skill demands, inequality, employment and job loss. Particular areas of focus are: (1) wage determination, equalizing wage differentials, and models of discrimination; and (2) the roles played by supply, demand, labor market institutions, and technology in the evolving distribution of earnings.