Econ. 421-Seminar in Labor Economics
Course Material
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Examinations
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Data Sets
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Problem Sets
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Readings
- Robert Moffitt, Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System: A Review.
- Lawrence Katz and Alan B. Krueger, The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast Food Industry.
- David Card, Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment? A Case Study of California, 1987-89.
- David Card, Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage.
- David Card and Alan B. Krueger, Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
- Richard B. Berman, The Crippling Flaws in the New Jersey Fast Food Study.
- David Neumark and William Wascher, The Effect of New Jersey's Minimum Wage Increase on Fast Food Employment: A Re-Evaluation Using Payroll Records.
- David Card and Alan B. Krueger, A Reanalysis of the New Jersey Minimum Wage Increase on the Fast Food Industry with Representative Payroll Data.
- Taeil Kim and Lowell J. Taylor, The Employment Effect in Retail Trade of California's 1988 Minimum Wage Increase.
- Deere, Murphy and Welch, Employment and the 1990-1991 Minimum-Wage Hike.
- Gary S. Becker, Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis.
- Sherwin Rosen, Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition.
- Sherwin Rosen,The Economics of Superstars.
- Michael Spence, Job Market Signaling.
- Andrew Weiss, Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages.
- Aigner and Cain, Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets.
- Ronald Oaxaca, Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets.
- Juhn, Murphy and Pierce, Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill.
- Weiss and Garloff, Skill-Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality.
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