Labour economics ii (SLE10)

Basic Information

• Code: SLE10
• Location: Helsinki, Economicum building
• Time: August 23-27, 2010
  • Preliminary Time schedule
• Application form
  • Deadline for applications: August 6, 2010
  • 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.
• List of participants (to be added here later)
• The course includes 20 hours of lectures, (exercises and a course assignment).
• FDPE recommends that the course is acknowledged by the student's own university/department with 3 ECTS credit points
• Syllabus (PDF)
• Course description: The dramatic shifts in the distribution of earnings and the returns to education in numerous advanced economies during recent decades have sparked a vast literature investigating the causes and consequences of fluctuations in wage levels and wage inequality. These lectures will distill key theoretical and empirical lessons from this literature, with a particular focus on analytic tools that inform our interpretation of the key facts and serve as a guide for future data analysis. In our quest to understand the forces underlying changes in wages and wage structure, we will study the evolution of the supply of skills, non-neutral technological changes, organizational changes, shifting opportunities for international trade and offshoring, and the erosion of labor market institutions and social norms that may have previously kept inequality in check.

Teaching Staff

• Instructor: Professor David Autor (MIT)

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Teaching Material

• To be added here

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Exam

• Time: TBA
• Places:
  • AT THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN DEPARTMENTS
  • but in Helsinki only at Economicum where all students living in or near Helsinki can take the exam.
• 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).
• Participants at foreign universities, please contact FDPE, fdpe-hecer[at]helsinki.fi.

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Travel Grants

• 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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