| Topic
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No. of hours
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Lecture
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Tutorial/Practical
|
|
Introductory Lecture and Course Outline
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview •Labor Economics and the Labor Market
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
The Theory of Individual Labor Supply • The Theory of Labor Force participation
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital• Education and Age-Earnings Profiles • Calculating the Returns to Education • Human Capital and Mobility
|
6
|
2
|
|
|
Midterm Exam
|
|
1
|
|
|
The Demand for Labor and Labor Market Equilibrium • The Production Function • The Short-Run Demand for Labor, The Demand for Labor in the Long-Run • The Demand for Labor in Non-Competitive Product Market
|
6
|
2
|
|
|
Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation• Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor• Compensating Wage Differentials• International Trade and Relative Wages
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Labor Market Discrimination• Gender and racial Differences in Labor Market • Theories of Labor Market Discrimination
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Labor Market Discrimination • Measuring the Effect of Discrimination on Pay-Gaps • Anti-Discrimination Policies and The Effects of Anti-Discrimination Policies
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining • Unions: Background and Facts • Theories of Union Growth • Union Bargaining Power and Strikes and The Effects of Unions
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Employment and Unemployment
|
3
|
1
|
|
|
Final Exam
|
|
1
|
|
