GRA 6628 Labor Economics - RESIT EXAMINATION
GRA 6628 Labor Economics - RESIT EXAMINATION
This course belongs to the major in Economics and is taught for the last time spring 2017.
The labor market is probably the most important market in the economy, and a thorough understanding of the labor market is key for understanding the workings of the economy in general and the effects of public policy targeted to the labor market in particular, such as education policies, income taxation and benefits for the sick and the elderly. This course teaches the main themes of labor economics. The course also teaches modern design based approaches to empirical analysis that are prevalent in labor economics and supplements theoretical analysis of the labor market with empirical studies.
After taking this course, student should :
- know the core theoretical analysis of key questions in labor economics
- know how to assess such questions using design based econometric approaches
- know the core empirical results from applied labor economics.
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- Empirical strategies in labor economics
- Labor supply
- Economics of education and training
- Discrimination in the labor market
- Incentives and personnel economics
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/It's learning or text book.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
GRA 6626 Economic Theory or equivalent
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Invigilation Weight: 100 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 3 Hour(s) Exam code: GRA66286 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.