The
course (lecture + seminar) will examine a range of institutions that affect the behavior of workers
and employers in imperfect labor markets, and thus touch upon a number of
important issues in labor economics: minimum wages, employment protection
legislation, unemployment benefits, active labor market policies, collective
bargaining, early retirement programs, education and migration policies,
payroll taxes, and employment-conditional incentives. In order to characterize
the effects of these institutions, the course relies on simple yet
state-of-the-art theory and reviews corresponding evidence.
- Dozent:in: Holger Bonin