Courses
14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics
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14.662 Graduate Labor Economics II
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- Lecture 1 - An Overview of Topics and Questions
- Lecture 2 - The Canonical Model of Skill Differentials
- Lecture 3 - Educational Production and Wage Structure
- Lecture 4 - Skills, Tasks and Technologies
- Lecture 5 - Superstars and Mediocrities
- Lecture 6 - Organizational Structure and Market Structure
- Lecture 7 - Trade and Labor Markets
- Lecture 8 - Trade and Labor Markets: Ricardian Models and Empirical Evidence
- Lecture 9 - The Importance of Place
- Lecture 10 - Neoclassical Labor Market Equilibrium
- Topic 1 - The Evolution of Gender Roles
- Topic 2 - Institutions, Norms, Collective Bargaining and Worker Productivity
- Topic 3 - Job Loss and Job Search at the Micro and Macro Level
- Topic 4 - Self-Selection in the Labor Market (and Elsewhere): The Roy Model
- Topic 5 - Discrimination and Learning
- Topic 6 - Wage Density Decompositions, Applied to Institutions and Wage Structure
- Syllabus
- Lecture 1 - Self‐Selection in the Labor Market
- Lecture 2 - Discrimination in the Labor Market
- Lecture 3 - Discrimination in the Labor Market Part II: Learning Models
- Lecture 4 - Group Differences in Economic Outcomes
- Lecture 5 - Segregation, Market Outcomes and Individual Impacts
- Lecture 6 - Social (Non-Market) Interactions
- Lecture 7 -Fairness and Norms