International Work, Wages and Mobility

Aннотация:
This seminar will develop tools from labor economics to analyze international policy challenges pertaining to peoples work patterns, incomes, and job changes. It will seek to build awareness of how economics addresses these issues in industrialized, emerging and less developed economies. Specifically, in the seminar we will build understanding of the tools that economics uses to address these issues, examine particular elements of the economics research that use these tools, and then discuss appropriate possible responses. Given the seminar format, in the second part of the course there will be substantial opportunity to focus on issues of particular interest to class participants.