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14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy | Economics

14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy | Economics

This course is an introduction to labor economics with an emphasis on applied microeconomic theory and empirical analysis. We are especially interested in the link between research and public policy. Topics to be covered include: labor supply and demand, taxes and transfers, minimum wages, immigration, human capital, education production, inequality, discrimination, unions and strikes, and unemployment.... Show More
Keywords:
labor Economics, immigration, Public Policy, human capital, economics of the family, unemployment and unemployment insurance, Labor Economics, public policy, unions and strikes, labor supply and demand, taxes and transfers, bargaining, Microeconomics, Econometrics, empirical analysis, monpsony, training, minimum wages, education, income distribution, decision to work, home production, discrimination, incentives, applied microeconomics
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Material Type:
Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:
May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
May 12, 2016
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Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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Website
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Not specified at this time
Language:
English
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No
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Unknown
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

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