Teaching

Munich CES Lectures, Fall 2026

Syllabus: Structural Trends in Jobs and Wage Inequality

Lecture 1: The role of market imperfections and firms

Lecture 2: Technologies’ effects on the job structure

Lecture 3: The role of labour supply responses

Econ 561 (Graduate Labour) at UBC, Spring 2018

Syllabus

Presentation Guide

Essay Guide

Lectures

• 1a Introduction

• 1b Neo-Classical Labour Supply

• 1(c)-(d) Labour Supply Estimation

• 1(e)-(f) Roy Model and Immigration

• 2(a) Comparative Statics of the Labour Demand

• 2(b) Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment

• 2(c) Effect of Immigration

• 2(d+e) Labour Demand at the Firm Level

• 3(a) Human Capital: Investment in Education

• 3(b) Signaling, Screening, and Ability

• 3(c) Returns to Education

• 3(d+e) Compensating Wage Differentials

• 4(a) Changes over Time and Cross-Countries Comparisons

• 4(b) Supply Factors for Inequality

• 4(c) Demand Factors and Job Polarization

• 4(d) Consumption Spillovers and Top-End Inequality

• 4(e) Impacts of Labor Market Institutions

• 5(a) Theory of Discrimination

• 5(b) Measurement of Discrimination

• 5(c) An Application: Ban the Box

Assignment_1

• Mroz_description; Mroz_elasticities

• Data: mroz; minwage

Assignment_2

• Twins_description

• Data: zip_file

Assignment_3

• Data: zip_file

Problem Sets Data for Applied Microeconometrics (U-Bonn):

• ajr.dta

• JEC.dta