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ECON 4715 – Fall 2007

ECON 4715 – Fall 2007. Erling Barth eba@socialresearch.no Contact hours: Monday 10-11, room 1017. Why labour economics?. Labour is the fundamental resource Allocation, efficiency Rich theory Behaviour Market models Market imperfections Organisations. Why labour economics?.

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ECON 4715 – Fall 2007

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  1. ECON 4715 – Fall 2007 Erling Barth eba@socialresearch.no Contact hours: Monday 10-11, room 1017

  2. Why labour economics? • Labour is the fundamental resource • Allocation, efficiency • Rich theory • Behaviour • Market models • Market imperfections • Organisations

  3. Why labour economics? • Distribution • Wage and income • Pensions and benefits • Integration and marginalisation • Immigrants • Low skilled workers • Disadv. Groups • Unemployed

  4. Why labour economics? • Micro / Macro • Link • Unemployment/employment • Empirical analysis • Good Data • Challenging problems • Advanced methods

  5. Summing up • Fundamental resource • Important problems • Challenging theoretical and empircal models and methods

  6. EALE Conference 2007 • www.eale.nl/conference2007/conference2007.htm • Job offer • Conference crew • 20-22 September • Approx 25 hours/standard rates • Interested? • E-mail to Andreas.Moxnes@econ.uio.no with a ½ to 1 page CV

  7. www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/oekonomi/ECON4715/h07/ Including lecture plan. • Mandatory paper: • Problem set distributed 29.9 • Hand in 10.10

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