Economics 180
Labor Economics
Fall 2009
Professor Lori Kletzer
439 Engineering 2 Bldg.
459-3596
News and announcements
Paper
assignment – posted 11/11/09, due 12/3/09 by 5pm
Oct. 15: the book I mentioned in class
today, Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public
Universities, by William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos,
and Michael S. McPherson (here’s the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Finish-Line-Completing-Universities/dp/069113748X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255709434&sr=1-1)
Office
hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays,
10-11am, or by appointment
Fridays, 10-11am, in Kerr 131
TA office
hours:
Aaron Meininger,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 2:30-4:30, 493 Engineering 2
Email:
a.g.meininger@gmail.com
Additional
course readings
“Is
Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers,” Henry
S. Farber, Journal of Political Economy, 2005, vol. 113, no. 1, pp.
46-82.
“A
Reassessment of the New Economics of the Minimum Wage Literature with Monthly
Data from the Current Population Survey,” Richard V. Burkhauser,
Kenneth A. Couch, David C. Wittenberg, Journal of Labor Economics, 2000,
ol. 18, no. 4 , pp. 653-680.
“Preparing
the Workers of Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow,” Council of Economic
Advisers, July 2009.
“A Submerging Labor Market Institution? Unions and the
Nonwage Aspects of Work,” Thomas C. Buchmueller,
John E. DiNardo, and Robert G. Valletta, in R.B
Freeman, J. Hersch, and L. Mishel,
eds., Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century,
University of Chicago Press, 2004.
“Estimates of
the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins,” Orley Ashenfelter and Alan
Krueger, Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section, Working Paper
#304, July 1992.
Assignments
“Impromptu
Homework #2” – posted 10/7/09, due at the start of class on Oct. 13. Answer
Graph
Problem
Set #1 – due October 22, 2009, at the start of class
Problem
Set #1 Answer Key – posted 10/27/09
Problem
set #2 – posted 11/18/09, due 12/1/09 at the start of class. Answer
sketch.
Useful web
sites:
Bureau of Labor Statistics (stats.bls.gov)