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Примеры экзаменационных вопросов по экономике труда и персонала.

This course is divided into three parts.

Part I reviews segments of the literature on labor mobility among jobs and among employment states. The course begins with the literature on worker transitions between jobs. This literature is naturally intertwined with models of wage growth within jobs and over the life-cycle. Therefore, we focus on how investments in both information and human capital generate observed patterns of wage growth and mobility decisions over the life-cycle. This will involve an extended discussion of the specificity of worker investments. Next, we turn to models of transitions into and out of unemployment. This section will highlight the role of government policies that affect the relative returns to work and unemployment.

Part II examines labor mobility and the supply of labor from a different perspective. Our focus will no longer be on individual decisions but rather on the movement of workers in and out of unemployment or across sectors of the economy in response to shocks that affect the productivity of labor generally or the relative productivity of labor in different activities. Once again, models of labor movements will generate implications for wage movements. We will pay particular attention to the empirical literature on the relationship between wages and unemployment levels. We explore joint determination of wages and employment levels through implicit and explicit contracts.

Part III examines the theoretical and empirical literature on racial income inequality. We devote considerable attention to the effects of public policy on observed racial income gaps.

This course covers both building blocks and special topics in the field of labor economics.

Topics 1 and 2 cover the basic building blocks of labor economics: labor demand and labor supply.
Topic 3 focuses on both theoretical and empirical analyses of the sources of wage differentials, including human capital, employer wage differentials, and discrimination.
Topic 4 presents new developments on the intergenerational transmission of inequality and the role of social capital in generating persistence in inequality.
Topic 5 turns to explanations of the recent rise in inequality around the globe, including skilled-biased technological change, international trade, and immigration.
Topic 6 focuses on unemployment and the role of labor market institutions.

(Readings marked with an asterisk will be covered in detail, other readings are optional).

This course has two principal objectives. The first is to introduce students to the field of labor economics, applying microeconomic analysis in order to increase understanding of important social issues and public policies such as poverty, minimum wages, overtime rules, layoff restrictions, education, job safety, discrimination, migration, labor relations, unions and other institutions, unemployment, and income inequality. The second is to apply labor economics to the particular problems of labor markets in transition economies, with the aim of encouraging research in this field.

The course will provide a blend of theoretical labor economics and applied research.We will cover four broad themes:
1) Empirical Estimates of the Returns to Education
2) Labor Supply
3) Contract Theory, Turnover and Wage Profiles
4) Theories of Unemployment
Topics 1 and 2 will be mostly empirical/applied econometrics, while topics 3 and 4 will be a blend of theoretical and empirical work emphasizing recent work on imperfect information in labor markets.

This course introduces workshop participants to the theory and methods of Labor Economics with applications to transition economies.

This course will focus on analyzing the Aquantity@ and Aquality@ of the supply of labor. Particular emphasis will be place on the effects of public policy on labor market outcomes, and the implications of labor market outcomes for policy. The pre-requisite is a one semester course in intermediate microeconomics, either Econ 218 or Econ 220 or their equivalents.
The textbook for this course is: Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Robert S. Smith, Modern Labor Economics, Addison-Wesley, 6th Edition, 1997.

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with traditional topics in labor economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. Prerequisites include intermediate microeconomics and econometrics.

This course is a graduate level seminar on topics selected from the field of labor economics. The objective of the seminar is to provide the student with a thorough understanding of the issues and methodological approaches to research in labor economics. This knowledge will be acquired through a critical review of the literature. It is hoped that the seminar will generate dissertation topics or further along the development of dissertations already in progress.

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with traditional topics in labour economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. Prerequisites include intermediate microeconomics and econometrics.

A modern economy is an exchange economy, with individuals exchanging goods and services for mutual benefit. The legal system plays an indispensable role of providing the "rules of the road" defining how those exchanges can take place. We will discuss a number of questions, including the purposes of the legal system, and what economic theory has to say about how laws should be written and what their impact will be. As you will see during this course, economic reasoning has a profoundly important place in our legal system. Similarly, economic reasoning has a lot to say about how laws should read.

Представлена разработка урока, темой которого является знакомство с различными видами ограничений в международной торговле. В разработке четко поставлены цели урока; представлены основные концепции, рассматриваемые в данной теме; описана организация дискуссии о введении новых тарифов. Ученики знакомятся с такими видами ограничений, как пошлины, квоты, эмбарго, лицензионное регулирование, введение определенных стандартов на ввозимую продукцию. В ходе урока учащиеся должны уметь привести доводы за и против введения ограничений международной торговли, показать, кто выигрывает, а кто теряет в результате введения этих ограничений.