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- Code:
- ECON-E0710
- Field:
- Labor Economics
- Targets:
- Master’s students Research Master's students PhD students
- Organiser:
- Aalto University
- Instructor:
- Krista Riukula
- Period:
- Period 3
- Format:
- Lecture
- Method:
- Contact teaching
- Venue:
- Otaniemi campus
- Enrollment:
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Aalto, Hanken and UH economics students can enroll through their home university’s SISU. Further instructions are available on the How to enroll? page, also for students from other universities.
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Content
This course provides an overview of the modern theoretical and empirical approaches that economists use to analyze the labor markets. We will emphasize the interplay between theory and empirics and cover topics such as labor supply, labor demand, job search, job loss, unemployment and labor market policies.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be familiar with
- Basic concept and theories of labor economics in topics such as labor demand, labor supply, job search, job loss and unemployment, and labor market policies.
- Examples of empirical work investigating these theories