Labor Economics II (Ph.D.) Spring 2006

Syllabus

Reading Material

· Notes on Burdett and Mortensen (1978)

· Chapter 2 from Minimum Wage Monograph

· Rothschild (1973) Updating Notes

Sample Programs

· Simple Search Model in Continuous Time

· Simple Nonstationary Search (Unemployment Benefits)

Problem Sets

· Assignment 1 (Due February 2)

· Assignment 2 (Due February 14)

Data Set: cps2002.txt

Data Set with Low Wages for Measurement Error Model Estimation: cps2002new.txt

(Rows = 3360)

· Assignment 3 (Due February 28)

Data Set: hours.txt

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