Irakasgai-zerrenda

1.- Introduction. 2.- Wage Setting in a simple competitive model ¿ Labour supply, Labour demand and equilibrium (homogenous workers and homogeneous jobs). 3.- Wage differentials in a competitive model with heterogeneous workers and jobs: Compensating Wage Differentials and The Hedonic Theory of Wages. Theory and evidence . 4.- Wage Discrimination. 5.- Collective Bargaining and Wages.

1.- Some background. 2.- Education and Age-Earnings profiles. 3.- The Schooling Model: The Net Present Value Approach. 4.- The Post-Schooling Model. 5.- Estimating the returns to education. 6.- Bias in Rate of Return Estimates. 7.- The evidence

1.- Introduction. 2.- Job search models. 3.- Job search and unemployment. 4.- Statistical instruments for survival analysis. 5.- Estimation of duration models. 6.- Application to the youth transition from school to the labour market

Bibliografia

Nahitaez erabili beharreko materiala

- Georges Borjas, "Labor Economics" (2nd Edition), Mc-Graw Hill.

- Derek Laing, Introduction to Classic and the New Labor Economics (2011). Norton

Oinarrizko bibliografia

TOPIC 1

- Charles Brown: "Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980.

- De la Rica, S. , J. Dolado and V. Llorens "Ceilings or Floors: Gender Wage Differentials by Education in Spain", Journal of Population Economics, 2008

- Altonji, J. and Blank (1999), "Race and Gender in the labor market", in Ashenfelter and Card (eds), Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 3C, chapter 48.

- Amuedo-Dorantes, C. and S. De la Rica (2006), " The Role of Segregation and Pay Structure on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain" Contributions to Economic Analysis, Berkeley Electronic Press Journals (2006).

- Bertrand Marianne and S. Mullainathan, "Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination", American Economic Review (2004), NBER 9873.



TOPIC 2

- Arcidiacono, P.( 2004). Ability Sorting and the Returns to College Major. Journal of Econometrics.

- Bound, J., D. A. Jaeger, and R. M. Baker. 1995. Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation When the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variables is Weak, Journal of American Statistical Association, Vol. 90, No. 430, pp. 443-450.

- Card, D. and A. B. Krueger. (1992). Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States, Journal of Political Economy 100: 1-40.



TOPIC 3

- Ahn, N. and A. Ugidos (1995), Duration of unemployment in spain: Relative effects of unemployment benefit and family characteristics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 57 (2), pp. 249-265.

- Krueger, A. B. Krueger and A. Mueller (2010), Job search and unemployment insurance: New evidence from time use data, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 94, pp. 298-307.

Gehiago sakontzeko bibliografia

TOPIC 1

- Blau and Kahn (2001), "Understanding international differences in the gender pay gap", Journal of Labor Economics 2003.

- Gardeazábal, J. and A. Ugidos (2005), "Gender Wage Discrimination at quantiles", Journal of Population Economics

- Goldin and Rouse (2000), "Orchestrating impartiality: The impact of "blind" auditions on female musicians", American Economic Review, 90.

- Card, D. and S. De la Rica, "Firm-level contracting and the structure of Wages in Spain", Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2006.



TOPIC 2

- Griliches, Z. (1977), Estimating the returns to schooling: Some econometric problems, Econometrica, 45 (1), pp. 1-22.

- Loury, L.D. and D. Garman (1995), College selectivity and earnings, Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 13(2), pp. 289-308

- Mincer, Jacob. (1974). Schooling, Experience, and Earnings, New York: Columbia University Press, Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 5.





TOPIC 3

- Mortensen, D., and C. Pissarides. 1999. New Developments in Models of Search in the Labor Market. Handbook 3B Chapter 39.

- Stigler, G. 1962. Information in the Labor Market, Journal of Political Economy, 70: 94-105.

- Topel, Robert H. and Michael P. Ward, 1992. Job Mobility and the Careers of Young Men, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107, 441-79.

Estekak

- Spanish Institute of Statistics: www.ine.es

- Eurostat Databases: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/

- IZA (Instituto of Labor Studies): www.iza.org/en/webcontent/index_html

- European Society of Population Economics (ESPE): http://www.espe.org/

- Eurpopean Association of Labour Economists (EALE): http://www.eale.nl/index.htm