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Appendix: Personnel & Enrollment
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ECON
308
Labor Economics
(
3
cr)
Prerequisite: ECON 302. Credit: 3 hrs. Offered occasionally.
The course offers a general treatment of modern theoretical and empirical labor economics. Topics to be covered include: operations of labor markets; wage determination; firm, industry and public sector labor demand; human capital investment; race and gender employment and wage discrimination; public policy effects. The relation of labor market outcomes and attendant public policy to poverty, income distribution and economic growth is covered.