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LABOUR ECONOMICS II
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Labour economics II
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- SEM0057
- Teaching staff
- Pietro Garibaldi (Lecturer)
Christoph Friedemann Albert (Lecturer) - Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Related or integrative
- Credits/Recognition
- 6
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- SECS-P/01 - economics
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Optional
- Type of examination
- Oral
- Prerequisites
- Having taken basic labour helps the students. Basic econometrics is also required. Yet, students can still take the course.
- Propedeutic for
- Labour economics will lead students closer to begginning research in labour.
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
Take students closer to contemporary research in laborPortare gli studenti ad avvicinarsi alla ricerca contemporanea- empirica e toerica- di labor- Oggetto:
Results of learning outcomes
Students will be in a position to present and discuss an advanced research paper in labor and conduct independent empirical analysisGli studenti saranno in grado di presentare e capire un paper avanzato di economia del lavoro e condurre in modo autonomo una analisi empirica- Oggetto:
Course delivery
Standard Class, second part onlineStandard Class, seconda parte online- Oggetto:
Learning assessment methods
First part: There will also be two/three problem sets in the first part of the course. The exam on the first part of the course will be based on a small workshop in which subtends will present a paper from the literature.Second part: students will be required to conduct some original empirical analysis and then write and present a short paper discussing their work.
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Support activities
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Program
The course is in two parts and offers an overview of two approaches to labor market analysis. The first part covers search and matching models with (mainly) various applications, including the most recent one to the epidemic models. The first part relies on some numerical simulations and knowledge of Python in the way used for the Numerical Economics Course is useful but not essential.Labor economics has been an important discipline in terms of applying and developing empirical techniques. As a result, the second part of the course focuses on these empirical methods and their application to the major topics studied by labor economists. The course includes applications and examples using Stata and discussion of research papers.
Class for the First Part: (Week 1-5)
Monday: 16-19. Room 31
Tuesday: 16-18. Room 31
The time table of the second rest of the class will be available through on line modules on moodle.
First Part.
There are two textbook references for the first part, as well as lecture notes:
Pissarides C.A. (2000) Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, MIT Press. Hereafter P2000
Petrosky Nadeau Wasmer (2017) Labor, Credit and Goods Market: The Macroeconomic of Search and Unemployment. Hereafter PNW2017
Acemoglu, Daron (2018) Lecture in Labor Economics (Part 4 Search and Unemployment) (Acemoglu)
1.One Sided Search
Acemoglu, Chapter 10
Mc Call (1970) The Economics of Information and Job Search, The Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 84, No. 1
Lecture Notes, Pietro Garibaldi
2.The basic labor market,
PNW2017, Chapter 1
Acemoglu, Chapter 11 Chapter 12
Lecture Notes, Pietro Garibaldi
Pissarides, 1985, Short Run equilibrium dynamics of unemployment, vacancies, and real wages, American Economic Review, 75(4): 676-90
Mortensen D.T. and Pissarides, C.A. (1994) Job creation and destruction in the theory of unemployment, The Review of Economic Studies, 61(3): 397-415
- Efficiency, Competitive Search and Directed Search
PNW2017, Chapter 3
Acemoglu
Moen, 1997 Competitive Search Equilibrium Journal of Political Economy 105(2):385-411
Benoit Julien, Kircher Philippe, Wright Randy and Veroica Guerrieri (2018) Directed Search: A Guided Tour, unpublished.
Acemoglu, Chapter 13
- Business Cycle Properties
PNW2017, Chapter 2
Shimer (2005) The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies, American Economic Review, 95(1): 25-49.
Ljungkvist Lars and Sargent T. (2017) The Fundamental Surplus, American Economic Review, 2017, 107(9): 2630/2665
- Credit and labor market frictions
PNW2017, Chapter 5 and 6
Boeri Garibaldi Moen (2018) Mortensen and Pissarides meet Holmstrom and Tirole, Labour Economics, 2018.
- Temporary Contracts and Duality
Garibaldi, P. Boeri, T. (2020) “Twenty Years of Temporary Employment”, in progress.
Cahuc, Pierre, Olivier Charlot and Franck Malherbet Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on labor turnover, International Economic Review, vol 57(2), pp533-572, May 2016.
Boeri Garibaldi Moen (2017) Inside Severance Pay, Journal of Public Economics
- Search and the SIR Epidemic model
Garibaldi, P. Moen, E. and C.A. Pissarides (2020) “Modeling Contact and Transition in the SIR Epidemic Model”, CEPR Covid Economics: Vetted and Real Time Papers.
Garibaldi, P. Moen, E. and C.A. Pissarides (2020) “Static and Dynamic Externalities in a COVID Model”, In progress.
Farboodi, M. Jarosch, G. and R. Shimer (2020) “Internal and External Effects in Social Distancing in a Pandemic”, https://sites.google.com/site/robertshimer/research/workingpapers
Second Part
References for the second part:
J.D. Angrist and J.S. Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion, Princeton University Press, 2009. Hereafter MHE.
Articles provided by the lecturer.
1. Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics
Introduction and Motivation. Identification strategies for causal relationships.
2. Potential outcomes approach
Social experiments. Non-experimental methods. A field experiment on discrimination in the labor market
MHE ch. 2
Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on labor market discrimination." American economic review 94, no. 4 (2004): 991-1013.
3. Controlling strategies. Regression estimators
The returns to education
MHE ch.3
4. IV methods
Family size and labor supply, estimation of labor demand
MHE ch. 4
Acemoglu, Daron, David H. Autor, and David Lyle. "Women, war, and wages: The effect of female labor supply on the wage structure at midcentury." Journal of political Economy 112, no. 3 (2004): 497-551.
5. Panel data. Diff-in-diff strategies
The effects of migration and minimum wages
MHE ch 5
Card, David. "The impact of the Mariel boatlift on the Miami labor market." ILR Review 43, no. 2 (1990): 245-257.
Card, David, and Alan Krueger. "A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economic Review 84, no. 4 (1994): 773-93.
Draca, Mirko, Stephen Machin, and John Van Reenen. "Minimum wages and firm profitability." American economic journal: applied economics 3, no. 1 (2011): 129-51.
6. Regression discontinuity designs
The effect of alchool consmption on mortality; the effect of class size on student performance
MHE ch.6
Carpenter, Christopher, and Carlos Dobkin. "The effect of alcohol consumption on mortality: regression discontinuity evidence from the minimum drinking age." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, no. 1 (2009): 164-82.
7. Decomposition methods
Oaxaca-Blinder and DFL decompositions. What do unions do?
DiNardo, John, Nicole M. Fortin, and Thomas Lemieux. Labor market institutions and the distribution of wages, 1973-1992: A semiparametric approach. Econometrica, 1996.
8. How to write a short empirical paper
Suggested readings and bibliography
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Pissarides C.A. (2000) Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, MIT Press. Hereafter P2000
Petrosky Nadeau Wasmer (2017) Labor, Credit and Goods Market: The Macroeconomic of Search and Unemployment. Hereafter PNW2017
Acemoglu, Daron (2018) Lecture in Labor Economics (Part 4 Search and Unemployment) (Acemoglu)
Pissarides C.A. (2000) Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, MIT Press. Hereafter P2000
Petrosky Nadeau Wasmer (2017) Labor, Credit and Goods Market: The Macroeconomic of Search and Unemployment. Hereafter PNW2017
Acemoglu, Daron (2018) Lecture in Labor Economics (Part 4 Search and Unemployment) (Acemoglu)
For the second part:J.D. Angrist and J.S. Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion, Princeton University Press, 2009. Hereafter MHE.
Journal articles
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Class schedule
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