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ECON
508
Labor Economics
(
3
) cr.
Completion of ECON 308 recommended. Offered occasionally.
The course delivers an advanced treatment of modern labor economics emphasizing the integration of theoretical and empirical models. Topics to be covered include: life- cycle human capital models, search theoretic models, internal markets, reservation wages, job search and matching. Issues in the theory and measurements of economic inequality are covered.