This module aims to provide an overview of key topics in the field of labour economics. More specifically, the module:
- teaches the key elements of labour economics;
- uses labour economics to say something about how real-world phenomena (related to the labour market) work;
- shows how models in labour economics (derived from first-order principles) can inform empirical analysis and policy;
- is strongly empirically motivated, but also stresses the links between theoretical and empirical research;
- touches at commonly used empirical methods to identify casual effects (e.g., difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity);
- covers canonical papers (often written 15-20 years ago) in conjunction with recent (sometimes unpublished) papers at the current research frontier.