LECTURE PLAN: ECON 4715 LABOUR ECONOMICS Time and Place: Thursday 10:15 – 12, auditorium 6 ( First lecture: August 24 - Last lecture: Nov. 23) No lectures in week 40 Language: English Lecturer: Erling Barth E-mail: Erling.Barth@econ.uio.no Web-page: http://www.socialresearch.no/staff/ebarth Course description and reading list: See: www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/oekonomi/ECON4715/ Tentative lecture plan: The following topics will be covered in the lectures. The week numbers given in parenthesis for each topic are tentative. Exercises and the compulsory paper will be given in the seminars The reading list is a suggestion from the lecturer and may cover parts of the reading list for the course, only. 1. Introduction and Labour Market Flows (week 34) Why labour economics? Survey of the course and remarks on the reading list. Extensive and intensive margin Job Flows and Worker Flows Competetive and non-competetive wage differences Topic I: Frictions 2. Job Search Theory (week 35) The basic search model The asset equation On the job-search C&Z chapter 3:1.1, 1.2.2. 3. The Matching Model (week 36 & 37) Transaction costs and frictions The Beveridge curve Labour market equilibrium C&Z chapter 9:3 4. Equilibrium Search Model (week 38) Wage setting and the Diamond’s critique Labour Market Equilibrium Endogenous Wage Distribution C&Z chapter 3:2.1 Topic II: Labour Demand 5. Labour demand (week 39) Labour demand in the short run Long run demand The elasticity of substitution Monopsony Dynamic monopsony models C&Z chapter 4: 1.1-1.4, 2.1, 2.2 Bhaskar Manning and To Topic III: Information 6. Contracts, risk sharing and incentives (week 41) Risk Sharing Incentives in the presence of verifiable results Pay for performance C&Z chapter 6:1-3 7. Efficiency wages (week 42) Incentives in the absence of verifiable results Equlibrium unemployment Wage Distribution C&Z chapter 6:4.2, 4.4 Topic IV: Collective Bargaining 8. Unions and Collective Bargaining (week 43 & 44) Unions Collective bargaining The right to manage model Equilibrium unemployment Wage distribution C&Z chapter 7: 1-4 9. Coordination in bargaining (week 45) Bargaining institutions Coordination in bargaining C&Z chapter 12:4 Moene and Wallerstein 10. Some policy issues (week 46) Minimum wage Employment protection The impact of immigration Institutions and performance C&Z chapter 12: 1, 2, 4 , 5 Moene and Wallerstein 11. Summing up (week 47)