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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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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
The course offers a comprehensive overview of modern theoretical and empirical methods in labor economics to explore educational decisions, labor market inequalities across demographic groups, and the effects of policies like taxation and affirmative action. The course will also cover topics such as intergenerational mobility, discrimination, gender differences, and insights gained from experiments in labor economics. Structural modeling of education and job choices, as well as wage determination, will also be explored, combining theory with practical evidence.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be familiar with:
Basic facts about: educational attainment of the workforce, returns to schooling, labor market differences between demographic groups, discrimination and anti-discrimination policies, labor taxation, subjective expectations, etc.
Main theories for understanding
- educational choices
- differences in labor market outcomes between demographic groups
Examples of empirical work investigating these theories
The course will also cover main methods used in recent research in labor economics: in particular, laboratory, experimental and structural methods.