Labor and Personnel Economics

Prof. Dr. Claus Schnabel
Summer Term 2023

Wednesday 15:00 – 16:30 h, room LG 0.143;
First appointment: April 19th, 2023

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Outline

1. Overview of the labor market
2. Labor supply
3. Human capital
4. Labor demand
5. Search and matching
6. Mobility and migration
7. Wages
8. Employment relationships and work incentives
9. Unemployment

Tim Kovalenko
Summer Term 2023

Thursday, 16:45 -18:15 h, room LG 0.144;
First appointment: April 27, 2023

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Dates and Topics

April 27, 2023         Labor Supply

May 04, 2023         auxiliary date

May 11, 2023         Human Capital

May 25, 2023         Labor Demand

June 15, 2023        Search and Migration

June 29, 2023        Wages

July 06, 2023         auxiliary date

July 13, 2023         Employment Relationships and Work Incentives

July 20, 2023         Unemployment

Please note

Detailed questions that will be addressed in each session will be available for download from StudOn. Participants are expected to prepare for and to actively participate in the exercises based on the lecture notes and the related and relevant literature.

Documents for lecture and class as well as old exams are available on StudOn.

• Cahuc / S. Carcillo / A. Zylberberg : Labor Economics, 2^nd ed., Cambridge, Mass. 2014 (graduate level)
• P. Garibaldi: Personnel Economics in Imperfect Labour Markets, Oxford 2006 (undergraduate / graduate level)
• G. J. Borjas: Labor Economics, 8^th ed., New York 2020 (undergraduate level)

Semester	Module name	Module compatibility	ECTS	Method of examination
2 (ST)	Labor and Personnel Economics: Lecture and Class	M.Sc. Economics: Elective compulsory subjects; M.Sc. Sozialökonomik: Vertiefungsbereich	5	Written examination (90 minutes)