B2037 - LABOR ECONOMICS AND POLICY

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Public Policy (cod. 5945)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge about agents and labour market structure. Understanding of the main current issue for workers such as development of inequality, discrimination, and the impact of technological change. Capacity to assess how the main labour market institutions work and impact workers and firms. Mastering of main empirical strategy for policy evaluation.

Course contents

1. Introduction. Labour markets and its components

2. Education

3. The development of inequality

- Skill biased tehcnological change

- The role of Institutions

3. Discrimination on the Labour Marklets

4. minimum Wages

5. Taxation

6. Retirement

8. Unemployment benefits

9. Active Labour markets Policies

10. Entrepreneurship and managerial skills

Readings/Bibliography

The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, Third Edition, di Tito Boeri, Jan van Ours, Princeton University Press

Much of the workrs content will rely on published papers and reports

Teaching methods

Face to face lecture

Assessment methods

Written exam

Assignment

Office hours

See the website of Vincenzo Scrutinio