This is an undergraduate course in labor economics. The course teaches core topics in the field of labor economics applied to developing countries as well as empirical methods for applied microeconomic analysis.
Labor markets are important, because most people, especially the poor, derive all or most of their income from the work they do. Therefore, labor is an important asset of poor households. Labor markets in developing countries exhibit several interesting stylized facts: a substantial fraction of the poor act as entrepreneurs, frequent...