LABOR ECONOMICS (FLE07)

Basic Information

• Code: FLE07
• Location: Helsinki
• Time: August 13-15 and 27-28
• Deadline for applications: August 1, 2007

FDPE arranges 4-5 field courses on varying topics each year. All courses are given in English.

The aim is to provide field courses that match the special courses available during the same academic year. Field courses provide essential background for special courses that deal with similar topics and/or use similar techniques. It is therefore strongly recommendable to view field and special courses as a package.

Field courses are intensive courses. Thus, it is strongly recommended that students acquaint themselves with the required readings before attending the courses.

Field courses organized by FDPE can be included in the student-specific field of studies. These courses have to be accepted as part of the doctoral studies by the students’ home department before the grades can be registered. Students' home departments are responsible for registering the grades according to their own requirements. FDPE gives the students, on request, a certificate of the courses passed within the programme.

Doctoral students not enrolled in FDPE, including students in foreign universities, are able to attend individual courses. See "How to Apply for the FDPE courses".

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Instructor

• Professor Pekka Ilmakunnas (Helsinki School of Economics) and Professor Roope Uusitalo (Helsinki School of Economics)

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Exam

• Time: September 21, 2007, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• Places:
  • AT THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN DEPARTMENTS
  • but in Helsinki only at one university where all students living in or near Helsinki can take the exam: Economicum building, Arkadiankatu 7, room B 416 (4th floor, next to the FDPE offices).
• Please register for the exam by sending an e-mail to fdpe-hecer(at)helsinki.fi (and let us know where you want to take the exam).
• The course's final grade will be based on both the completed exercises (40%) and the exam (60%).

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Exercises

Course requirements include empirical exercises.
The course grade will be based on the exercises (40 %) and the final exam (60 %).

The first exercise involves calculating returns to schooling using twin data and the other estimating labor supply functions with repeated cross-section data.

The exercises should be completed before the second lecture period and handed in on paper or by e-mail. The students are free to use their preferred statistical program. Data sets are in Stata-format, but can be easily converted to formats understood by SAS, R or SPSS.

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Travel Grants

• Nordic Network in Economics (NNE) will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Estonian doctoral economics students for participating in this course. Please apply for travel grants on line.
• The Society for economics professors and docents in Finland (Kansantaloustieteen professorien ja dosenttien yhdistys ry) gives travel grants to doctoral economics students, please see FDPE website Financial Aid.

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