David Autor

Classes

14.662 Labor Economics II
Spring 2012

Lecture Note 1 - The Theory of Skill Premia
Lecture Note 2, Part 1 - A Ricardian Model of Task-Based Technological Change
Lecture Note 2, Part 2 - Skills, Tasks and Technologies
Lecture Note 3 - Market Structure, Organizational Structure and Wage Structure
Lecture Note 4 - Canonical Models of Trade, Technology and Skill Demand
Lecture Note 5 - Ricardian Models of Trade
Lecture Note 6 - Wage Denisty Decompositions

14.663 Advanced Topics in Labor Economics
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Topic 1: Self Selection and the Labor Market
Slides: Self-Selection in the Labor Market Slides
Lecture Notes

Topic 2: Discrmination in the Labor Market
Slides - Discrimination in the Labor Market
Lecture Notes

Topic 3: Discrimination and Learning
Slides - Discrimination in the Labor Market Part II - Learning Models
Lecture Notes

Topic 4: Group Differences in Economic Outcomes
Slides - Group Differences in Economic Outcomes
Lecture Notes

Topic 5: Segregation, Market Outcomes and Individual Impacts
Slides - Segregation, Market Outcomes and Individual Impacts
Lecture Note

Topic 6: Social (Non-Market) Interactions
Slides - Social (Non-Market) Interactions
Lecture Notes

Topic 7: Fairness and Norms
Slides - Fairness and Norms
Lecture Notes

14.662 Labor Economics II

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Topic 1: Inequality Overview
Slides - Inequality Overview
Lecture Notes

Topic 2: Educational Production and Wage Structure
Slides - Educational Production and Wage Structure
Lecture Notes

Topic 3: Skill Biased Technological Change and Wage Structure
Slides - Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Structure: Many Hypothesis and Some Evidence
Lecture Notes

Topic 4: Market Structure, Organizational Structure and Wage Structure
Slides - Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and Wage Structure
Lecture Notes

Topic 5: Trade, Outsourcing, Skill Demands and Inequality
Slides - Trade, Outsourcing, Skill Demands and Inequality
Lecture Notes

Topic 6: Immigration, Factor Prices, Technology and Trade
Slides - Immigration, Factor Prices, Technology and Trade
Lecture Notes

Topic 7: Wage Density Decompositions, Applied to Institutions and Wage Structure
Slides - Wage Density Decompositions, Applied to Institutions and Wage Structure
Lecture Notes

Topic 8: Assessing the Minimum Wage's Impact on US Wage Inequality
Slides - Assessing the Minimum Wage's Impact on U.S. Wage Inequality
Lecture 8 - Notes

14.661 Graduate Labor Economics I
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(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 1: Theories of the Provision and Payment of General Skills Training in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 2: Firm Specific Human Capital: Theory and Evidence in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 3: Efficiency Wages, the Shapiro-Stiglitz model in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 4: Efficiency Wages, Neoclassical and Non-Neoclassical Evidence in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 5: Monitoring, Measurement and Risk in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 6: Self-Selection - The Roy Model in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 7: Market Signaling - Theory and Evidence in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 8: The Economics of Discrimination - Theory in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 9: The Economics of Discrimination - Evidence in PDF format)
(click to download the Lecture Notes on Lecture 10: The Economics of Immigration in PDF format)
Fall 2003 14.661

14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics
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Fall 2003 14.03

Lectures on Skill Biased Technical Change and Rising Inequality: What is the Evidence? What are the Alternatives? (European University Institute, Spring 2002)
Lecture 1: Facts and Models.
Lecture 2: Theory of Skill Premia.
Lecture 3: Skill Biased Technical Change: Hypotheses and Evidence.
Lecture 4: The Role of International Trade and Outsourcing.
Lecture 5: Institutions and Wage Compression.
Spring 2002