AØKA08065U Labour Economics
The course covers the following topics:
- Labor supply and demand
- Education and human capital
- Wage formation
- Local labor markets
- Job search, unemployment and job reallocation
- Bargaining and minimum wages
- Active labor market policies
- Flexicurity and employment protection
The course in labor economics aims to enable students to read and understand current and previous research in labor economics, discuss policy proposals from the perspective labor economics and reflect critically on new theories and empirical evidence.
To meet the above aims, at the end of the course the students are expected to learn to describe the following concepts/theories as well as apply them in the analysis of concrete empirical phenomena and policy proposals:
- The neoclassical theory of labor supply both in a static and dynamic setting
- The neoclassical theory of labor demand
- General and specific human capital
- Different types of wage determination, including bargaining, compensating differentials and contract theory
- Local labor markets
- Search and matching models of the labor market
- Labor market policies such as unemployment benefits, active labor market policies and employment protection
.
Syllabus
The main textbook for the course is:
Cahuc and Zylberberg: "Labor Economics", MIT Press 2004.
The texbook will be supplemented by a few journal articles as well
as lecture slides and lecture notes.
Time and room:
Time and room for the lectures and exercise classes: Please press the link under "Se skema" (See schedule). 15F means Spring (Forår) 2015
The springsemester is available partly in English at this link:
https://skema.ku.dk/KU1415/reporting/textspreadsheet?objectclass=module&idtype=id&identifier=43799&t=SWSCUST+module+textspreadsheet&days=1-5&weeks=27-52&periods=1-68&template=SWSCUST+module+textspreadsheet
The first lecture in the springsemester will be the 5.th of February 2015 at 10.00 o´clock (AM).
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 12
- Lectures
- 42
- Preparation
- 152
- Total
- 206
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examination, 12 hoursThe exam is a 12 hours take-home where all aids are alloved
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
100 % censorship
- Exam period
- For the Spring semester 2015: From 26 May to 28 June 2015 The take-home exam will be the 30 May 2015 from 10.00 to 22.00 More information is available at https://intranet.ku.dk/economics_ma/examination/Pages/default.aspx
- Re-exam
- Same as ordinary. But if only a few students have registered for the re-exam, the exam might change to an oral exams with a synopsis to be handed in. This means that the examination date also will change.
Criteria for exam assesment
The student must in a satisfactory way demonstrate that he/she has mastered the learning outcome of the course.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- AØKA08065U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- Spring (week 6-21)
- Course capacity
- No limits
- Continuing and further education
- Price
320 DKK per ECTS.
- Study board
- Department of Economics, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Economics
Course responsibles
- Nikolaj Arpe Harmon (14-706b6d716e636c306a63746f71704267657170306d7730666d)
- Daniel le Maire (15-6764716c686f316f683170646c75684368667271316e7831676e)