Topics in Labor Economics II (6 cr)

Code:
ECON-L6310
Field:
Labor Economics
Targets:
Research Master's students PhD students
Organiser:
Aalto University
Instructor:
Several
Period:
Period 2
Format:
Lecture
Method:
Contact teaching
Venue:
Otaniemi campus
Enrollment:

In case of conflicting information consider the Sisu/MyCourses pages the primary source of information.

Hanken and UH economics students can enroll in their home university’s SISU! Further instructions can be found on the How to enroll? page, also for other students.

Before taking and completing the course make sure that the credits can be counted towards your degree at your home university by checking which courses are included in your curriculum or by contacting your home university’s student/learning services.

  • To access the course workspace, use all the features and participate in the activities (assignments, discussions), you must have successfully registered for the course in Sisu and logged in with your Aalto user ID.
  • For more information on how to activate your Aalto user ID and register for a MyCourses course area, click here.

Through this course, we hope PhD and research masters students will develop an understanding of frontier topics in Labor Economics and develop new projects and collaborations. 

Several faculty members are teaching this course. Topics covered include Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets (Roope Uusitalo), Economics of Crime (Kristiina Huttunen), Search models (Ciprian Domnisoru), Education and human capital (Mikko Silliman), Migration (Matti Sarvimäki), Matching models (Marko Terviö), Occupational Segregation and Social Mobility (Torsten Santavirta).