ECON0085: MPhil / PhD Applied Job Search Models

Downloadable material for this course is listed below. The same material is available from the course's Moodle page.

• Syllabus

• Lecture 1: Facts To Be Explained

• Lecture 2: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently?

• Lecture 3: On-the-job Search and Wage Posting (with an appendix)

• Lecture 4: Sequential Auctions and Individual Wage Bargaining (with an appendix)

• Lecture 5: Why Do Wages Move Over Time the Way they Do?

• Practical 1: ML estimation of the Burdett and Mortensen (1998) model: Questions and data 

• Practical 2: Estimation of the Burdett and Mortensen (1998) model using moments: Questions

• Practical 3: Estimation of the Sequential Auction model using indirect inference: Questions and code

Finally, here are a few problems for practice.

MPhil Research and Presentation Skills Workshop

All the relevant information for this workshop is available on the relevant Moodle page.

• Course outline