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- Code:
- ECON-E0720
- Field:
- Labor Economics
- Targets:
- Master’s students Research Master's students PhD students
- Organiser:
- Aalto University
- Instructor:
- Cecile Bonneau and Moritz Mendel
- Period:
- Period 4
- Format:
- Lecture
- Method:
- Contact teaching
- Venue:
- Otaniemi campus
- Enrollment:
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Overview
The course gives an overview of modern theoretical and empirical approaches used in labor economics to understand educational choices, labor market inequalities between demographic groups, and the effect of technological change and globalization on the labor market. It will also discuss minimum wages.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be familiar with:
- Basic facts about: educational attainment of the workforce, labor market differences between demographic groups, technological change and trends in globalization (trade, migration)
- Main theories for understanding
- educational choices
- differences in labor market outcomes between demographic groups
- how technology and globalization affect the labor market
- Examples of empirical work investigating these theories