Labour Economics (BSc)

This is an undergraduate course in Labour Economics that I teach at the University of Geneva in the academic year 2017-2018. We will use this page to post the material for the course and will use the UniGE Chamilo for communications.

Description of the course

Calendar with tentative list of topics for each class (revised 06.10.2017)

Lecture slides and notes (to be completed during the course)

• Presentation of the course
  • Gilboa, I., Postlewaite, A., Samuelson, L. and Schmeidler, D. (2014), "Economic Models as Analogies". Economic Journal, 124: F513–F533.
• Definitions
• Labour Demand
  • e-board notes: 26.09.2017; 03.10.2017
  • the labour demand of the monopolistic employer
  • link to Card&Krueger paper on the minimum wage.
• Labour Supply
  • e-board notes
  • presentation of paper on labour supply and welfare programmes using regression discontinuity design: Chen, S., van der Klaauw, W. (2008), "The Work Disincentive Effects of the Disability Insurance Program in the 1990s". Journal of Econometrics, 142: 757-784.
• Econometrics notes on causality and policy evaluation
  • e-board notes
• Unionised labour markets
• Efficiency wages and Frictions
  • handwritten analytical derivation of the search model
  • link to Shapiro&Stiglitz paper on efficiency wages
  • link to Nobel Prize lecture by Christopher Pissarides
• Education & Training
• Migration
• Inequality
• Discrimination

Reading groups

• List of readings
• Group presentations available on Chamilo

Problem sets

• Problem set 1: text - solutions
• Problem set 2: text - solutions
• Problem set 3: text - solutions

Past exams

• Fall 2015: regular session; retake session
• Fall 2016: regular session; retake session