Overview
Description
Analysis of labor force concepts and measurements, labor markets and labor mobility, wage theory and collective bargaining and macroeconomic behavior of employment and earnings.
Requirements
Prerequisites
ECON 702ECON 741
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
ECON 702; ECON 741.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of some of the major topics in modern labor economics such as labor supply, migration, program evaluation.
- demonstrate understanding of the estimation issues that are most important in micro-econometrics.
- demonstrate understanding of data design and econometric methods such as Difference in Difference (DD), Matching, Regression Discontinuity (RD), and Quantile Regression (QR) based methods.
- demonstrate understanding of how to work with large data sets and reproduce results from the published papers.
- demonstrate understanding of how to conduct independent research.