GRADUATE LABOR ECONOMICS SYLLABUS Manuel Bagues CEMFI. September 2014
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1 GRADUATE LABOR ECONOMICS SYLLABUS Manuel Bagues CEMFI September 2014 Topics I. Facts and Figures 1. Basic Definitions and Statistics 1.A Employment 1.B Income and Wages 1.C Education II. Labor Supply 1. Static and Dynamic Labor Supply 1.A Static Model of Labor Supply 1.B Dynamic Labor Supply: The Life-Cycle Model 1.C Estimating Labor Supply Elasticities 2. Household Production and Time Allocation in the Family 2.A Household Production 2.B Family Labor Supply 2.C Fertility Decisions III. Labor Demand and Labor Market Equilibrium 1. Labor Demand and Equilibrium under Perfect Competition 1.A Labor Demand of Price-Taking Firms 1.B Labor Market Equilibrium under Perfect Competition IV. Imperfect Labor Markets and Unemployment 1. Monopsony, Minimum Wages, and Unions 1.A Monopsony 1.B Minimum Wages 1.C Unions 2. Unemployment 2.A Labor Markets with Perfect Competition 2.B Labor Markets with Frictions
2 V. Human Capital and Schooling 1. Human Capital Theory 1.A Concept of Human Capital 1.B Schooling Choice 1.C Life-Cycle Wage Profiles 2. Returns to Education: The Textbook Example for Causal Inference in Applied Microeconomics 2.A The Mincer Wage Equation 2.B Empirical Strategies for Causal Inference in Applied Microeconomics 3. School Organization 3.A School Resources 3.B School Incentives VI. Wage Inequality 1. Wage Inequality and Technological Change 1.A Trends in Skill Premia and Skill Supply 1.B Skill-Biased Technological Change 1.C Estimating the Demand for Skill 2. Occupational Tasks and Labor Market Polarization 2.A Technology Adoption in the Workplace 2.B Occupational Tasks 2.C Labor Market Polarization VII. Migration 1. Immigration 1.A Empirical Patterns of Immigration 1.B A Theory of Immigrant and Native Labor 1.C Empirical Estimates of Immigrants' Impact on Native Workers 1.D Other Aspects of Immigration VIII. Discrimination 1. Discrimination Theories 1.A The Concept of Discrimination 1.B Taste-Based Discrimination 1.C Statistical Discrimination 1.D Stereotype Threat 2. Evidence for Discrimination 2.A The Gender Wage Gap 2.B Audit Studies and Hiring Experiments 2.C Empirical Evaluation of Discrimination Theories
3 IX. Social Environment 1. Family Background 1.A Intergenerational Correlations 1.B Nature vs. Nurture 2. Peers 2.A Peers Effects 2.B Job Search Networks X. Fairness and Norms 1. Fairness 1.A Theory and Experiments 1.B Beyond Experiments 2. Reference Points 2.A Reference-Dependent Utility 2.B Reference-Dependent Effort
4 References by Topic II Labor Supply 1. Static and Dynamic Labor Supply Borjas, George J Labor Economics. 2nd Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill (Chapter 2, sections 2 to 9 and chapter 3, section 1). Cahuc, Pierre and André Zylberberg Labor Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press (Chapter 1, sections 1.1, 1.3, and 2). ***** Ashenfelter, Orely and Mark W. Plant "The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply." Journal of Labor Economics, 8, S395-S415. Ashenfelter, Orley, Kirk Doran, and Bruce Schaller "A Shred of Credible Evidence on the Long Run Elasticity of Labor Supply." Economica, 77(308), Pages Bargain, Olivier, Kristian Orsini and Andreas Peichl. "Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US." IZA Discussion Paper no. 5820, June. Becker, Gary and Gilbert Ghez The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life- Cycle. New York: Columbia University Press. Blundell, Richard, Antoine Bozio and Guy Laroque.(forthcoming). "Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply: Working Hours in the US, UK and France." Fiscal Studies. Blundell, Richard, Alan S. Duncan and Costas Meghir "Estimating Labor Supply Responses Using Tax Reforms." Econometrica, 66, Blundell, Richard and Thomas MaCurdy "Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches." Handbook of Labor Economics, 3, Card, David and Dean R. Hyslop "Estimating the Effects of a Time-Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare-Leavers." Econometrica, 73, Eissa, Nada and Jeffrey B. Liebman "Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111, Farber, Henry S "Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers." Journal of Political Economy, 103, Farber, Henry S " Why You Can t Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons from Cab Drivers" IZA Working paper Fehr, Ernst and Lorenz Götte "Do Workers Work More if Wages are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment." American Economic Review, Imbens, Guido W., Donald B. Rubin and Bruce I. Sacerdote, Estimating the Effect of
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7 Brown, Charles "Minimum Wages, Employment, and the Distribution of Income." Handbook of Labor Economics, 3, Burda, Michael C. and Jennifer Hunt "What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 42-1 (Spring), Card, David and Alan Krueger "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey." American Economic Review, 84, Card, David and Alan Krueger Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Davis, Steven J. and Till M. von Wachter "Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 43(2): Draca, Mirko, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen "Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3, Farber, Henry S "The Analysis of Union Behavior." Handbook of Labor Economics, 2, Jakubson, George "Estimation and Testing of the Union Wage Effect Using Panel Data." Review of Economic Studies, 58, Kennan, John "The Elusive Effects of Minimum Wages." Journal of Economic Literature, 33, Krusell, Per and Leena Rudanko "Unions in a Frictional Labor Market." NBER Working paper no , July. Lazear, Edward "Job Security Provisions and Employment." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 105, Lee, David and Alexandre Mas "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, " Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(1), Lewis, H. Gregg "Union Relative Wage Effects." Handbook of Labor Economics, 2, Machin, Stephen and Alan Manning "The Causes and Consequences of Longterm Unemployment in Europe." Handbook of Labor Economics, 3, Machin, Stephen and Alan Manning "Where the Minimum Wage Bites Hard: Introduction of Minimum Wages to a Low Wage Sector." Journal of the European Economic Association, 1,
8 Machin, Stephen and Alan Manning "A Test of Competitive Labor Market Theory: The Wage Structure Among Care Assistants in the South of England." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 57, Manning, Alan Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Nickell, Stephen and Richard Layard "Labor Market Institutions and Economic Performance." Handbook of Labor Economics, 3, V. Human Capital and Schooling Acemoglu, Daron and David Autor. Lectures in Labor Economics. Mimeograph MIT (Chapter 1, sections 1 to 3 and 6 to 7). Borjas, George J Labor Economics. 2nd Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill (Chapter 7, sections 1 to 5 and 8 to 10). Cahuc, Pierre and André Zylberberg Labor Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press (Chapter 2, sections 2 to 3.1 and 4). ***** Human Capital Theory and Returns to Education Abramitzky, Ran and Victor Lavy "How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Returns? Evidence from and Unusual Pay Reform in Israel's Kibbutzim." NBER Working Paper no , May. Angrist, Joshua D "Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administration Records." American Economic Review, 80, Angrist, Joshua D. and Stacey Chen "Long-Term Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience, and Earnings." Mimeograph, November Angrist, Joshua D. and Alan Krueger "Does Compulsory Schooling Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106, Ashenfelter, Orley and Alan Krueger Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins, American Economic Review 84, Becker, Gary Human Capital. 3rd Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bound, John and Sarah Turner "Going to War and Going to College. Did World War II and The G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?" Journal of Labor Economics, 20, Card, David "The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings." Handbook of Labor Economics, 3, Dale, Stacey and Alan B. Krueger "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Data." NBER Working Paper no , June.
9 Freeman, Richard B "Demand for Education." Handbook of Labor Economics, 1, Freeman, Richard B "Overinvestment in College Training." Journal of Human Resources, 10, Griliches, Zvi "Estimating the Returns to Schooling: Some Econometric Problems." Econometrica, 45, Griliches, Zvi and William M. Mason "Education, Income, and Ability." Journal of Political Economy, 80, S74-S103. Oreopoulos, Philip "Estimating Average and Local Average Treatment Effects of Education when Compulsory Schooling Laws Really Matter." American Economic Review, 96, Mincer, Jacob Schooling, Experience, and Earnings. New York: NBER. Willis, Robert J "Wage Determinants." Handbook of Labor Economics, 1, Willis, Robert J. and Sherwin Rosen "Education and Self-Selection." Journal of Political Economy, 87, S7-S School Organization Angrist, Joshua D. and Victor Lavy "Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114, Angrist, Joshua D. and Victor Lavy. Forthcoming. The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Group-Randomized Trial. American Economic Review. Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood." NBER Working Paper no , December. Chetty, Raj, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126, Clark, Damon "The Performance and Competitive Effects of School Autonomy." Journal of Political Economy, 117, Cullen, Julie Berry, Brian A. Jacob and Steven D. Levitt "The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools." Journal of Public Economics, 89, Dee, Thomas "Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment." Economics of Education Review, 30(5),
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16 Borjas, George J Labor Economics. 2nd Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill (Chapter 10). Cahuc, Pierre and André Zylberberg Labor Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press (Chapter 5, sections 2.3 and 4.2). ***** Altonji, Joseph and Rebecca Blank Race and Gender in the Labor Market. Handbook of Labor Economics, 3, Charles, Kerwin Kofi and Jonathan Guryan "Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress." NBER Working Paper no , June. 1. Discrimination Theories Aigner, Dennis J. and Glen G. Cain "Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 30, Arrow, Kenneth J "The Theory of Discrimination." In Ashenfelter and Rees, eds., Discrimination in Labor Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Arrow, Kenneth J "What Has Economics to Say about Racial Discrimination?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12, Becker, Gary The Economics of Discrimination. 2nd Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Black, Dan A Discrimination in an Equilibrium Search Model. Journal of Labor Economics, 13, Coate, Stephen and Glenn Loury "Will Affirmative Action Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?" American Economic Review, 83 (5), Goldberg, Matthew S Discrimination, Nepotism, and Long-Run Wage Differentials. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 97, May, Holzer, Harry and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes for Minority Workers. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113, Lang, Kevin, Michael Manove and William Dickens Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Announced Wages. American Economic Review, 95, Lang, Kevin and Michael Manove. Forthcoming. "Education and Labor-Market Discrimination." American Economic Review. Phelps, Edmund The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism. American Economic Review, 62,
17 2. Evidence for Discrimination Altonji, Joseph and Charles Pierret Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116, Bagues, Manuel F. and Berta Esteve-Volart. Forthcoming. "Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment." Review of Economic Studies. Baker, Michael and Kevin Milligan "Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries." NBER Working Paper no March. Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Latisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. American Economic Review, 94, Betrand, Marianne, Jessican Pan and Emir Kamenica "Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households." NBER Working Paper no May. Booth, Alison "Gender and Competition." Labour Economics. 16 (6), Booth, Alison and Andrew Leigh "Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations." Economics Letters, 107(2), Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn "Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s." Journal of Labor Economics, 15, Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn "Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap." Journal of Labor Economics, 21, Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn "The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60, Blinder, Alan Toward and Economic Theory of Income Distribution. Cambridge: MIT Press. Charles, Kerwin K. and Jonathan Guryan Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker s The Economics of Discrimination. Journal of Political Economy, 116, Darity, William A. and Patrick L. Mason "Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12, De la Rica, Sara, Juan J. Dolado and Vanesa Llorens "Ceilings or Floors?: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain." Journal of Population Economics, 20,
18 Fryer, Roland G., Devah Pager and Jörg L. Spenkuch "Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages." NBER Working Paper no , September. Gneezy, Uri, John List and Michael K. Price "Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments." NBER Working Paper no , February. Goldin, Claudia and Cecilia Rouse "Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of Blind Auditions on Female Musicians." American Economic Review, 90, Heckman, James J "Detecting Discrimination." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12, Kaas, Leo and Christian Manger "Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment." German Economic Review, 13(1), List, John "The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119, Lopez Boo, Florencia, Martin A. Rossi and Sergio Urzua "The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment." IZA Discussion Paper no. 6356, February. Loury, Glenn C "Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Beyond Market Interactions." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12, Mulligan, Casey and Yona Rubinstein Selection, Investment, and Women s Relative Wages over Time. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123, Neal, Derek "The Measured Black-White Wage Gap among Women Is Too Small." Journal of Political Economy, 112, S1-S28. Oaxaca, Ronald "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets." International Economic Review, 14, Olivetti, Claudia and Barbara Petrongolo Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps. Journal of Labor Economics, 26, Pager, Devah, Bruce Western and Bart Bonikowski "Discrimination in a Low Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment." American Sociological Review, 74, Pope, Devin G. and Justin R. Sydnor "What's in a Picture? Evidence of Discrimination from Prosper.com." Journal of Human Resources (46), Riach, Peter A. and Judith Rich "Field Experiments of Discrimination in the Market Place." Economic Journal, 112, F480-F518. Weber, Andrea and Christine Zulehner "Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?" IZA Discussion Paper No October.
19 Yinger, John "Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12, IX. Social Environment Borjas, George J Labor Economics. 2nd Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill (Chapter 8, section 5). 1. Family Background Behrman, Jere R. and Mark R. Rosenzweig "Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?" American Economic Review, 92, Björkland, Anders, Mikael Lindahl and Erik Plug The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121, Black, Sandra E., Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G. Salvanes "Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital." American Economic Review, 95, Black, Sandra E. and Paul J. Devereux "Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility." IZA Discussion Paper No April. Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis "The Inheritance of Inequality." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16, Cesarini, David, Christopher T. Dawes, Magnus Johannesson, Paul Lichtenstein and Bjorn Wallace Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk-Taking. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124, Corak, Miles "Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): Dickens, William and James Flynn Heritability Estimates versus Large Environmental Gains: The IQ Paradox Resolved. Psychological Review, 108, Lee, Chul-In and Gary Solon "Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility." Review of Economics and Statistics, 91, Plug, Erik and Wim Vijverberg "Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is It Nature or Nurture?" Journal of Political Economy, 111, Sacerdote, Bruce How Large are the Effects from Changes in Family Environment? A Study of Korean American Adoptees. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122, Solon, Gary "Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16,
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