Theoretical and empirical research on labor markets. Topics include human capital and signaling models, estimation of the returns to education, econometrics and economics of program evaluaton, empirical methods in labor economics, equalizing differences, spatial equilibrium models, self-selection and Roy models, labor mobility and immigration, segmented labor market models, labor demand, understanding changes in the wage structure and inequality, and unemployment. Labor demand applications include minimum wage, monopsony, and union models.
Participants discuss recent research in labor economics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations.
